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Sherna Gluck
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Full name

Sherna Berger Gluck

Alternative names

Sherna B. Gluck

Presence at Shimer

19501953

Presence on Earth

1935–

AB

Shimer College 1953

MA

UCLA 1959

BA

UC Berkeley 1965

Role(s)

Mount Carroll period alum

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Sherna Berger Gluck was a student at Shimer College in the early Great Books period, enrolling via early entrance in 1950 and graduating in 1953.

Brief description[]

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Sherna Berger Gluck (b. 1935) is an American activist and oral historian. Her first book, From Parlor to Prison (1976), is an oral history of the women's suffrage movement. An advocate for the Palestinian people, she is a co-host of the Radio Intifada show on KPFK; her most recent book is An American Feminist In Palestine. Her historical work led to the recognition of women's oral history as a distinct discipline. Gluck received her undergraduate education at Shimer College in Illinois, where she enrolled at age 15 through the early entrance program. She later received advanced degrees from UCLA and UC Berkeley. (from Shimer College Wiki)


Shimer connections[]

  • Wife of fellow 1953 alum Marvin Gluck

Profiled[]

Works[]

  • Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History
  • Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change
  • From parlor to prison: Five American suffragists talk about their lives
  • An American feminist in Palestine : the Intifada years

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References[]


Biography[]


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Sherna Berger Gluck (born 1935) is an American activist and oral historian. She played a central role in earning recognition of women's oral history as a distinct discipline.

Early life and education[]

Sherna Berger was born May 27, 1935. She attended Shimer College, enrolling at age 15 through the early entrance program, then in its inception. At Shimer, she studied the same Great Books curriculum as was then in place at the University of Chicago.

She later received advanced degrees from UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Academic and activist career[]

Gluck's first book, From Parlor to Prison (1976), is an oral history of the women's suffrage movement.

An advocate for the Palestinian people, she is a co-host of the Radio Intifada show on KPFK; her most recent book is An American Feminist In Palestine.

Women's oral history

Palestine, Radio Intifada

Writings[]

  • Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History
  • Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change
  • From parlor to prison: Five American suffragists talk about their lives
  • An American feminist in Palestine : the Intifada years

References[]

External links[]

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