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Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born 1961)

musician, actor, blogger, human rights activist, singer, television actor, poet, journalist, film actor, peace activist, voice actor, radio personality, recording artist, spoken word artist, lyricist

  • Bullis School, American University

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The portable Henry Rollins
Solipsist
Eye scream
Do I Come Here Often?
Fanatic!
Get in the Van
Broken Summers
Do I Come Here Often? (Black Coffee Blues, Pt. 2)
Occupants
Smile, you're traveling
Smile You're Travelling (Black Coffee Blues 3)
Jackass Theory [Uk Only]
Black Coffee Blues
The first five
Roomanitarian
Unwelcomed songs
See a grown man cry
See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
Now watch him die
Bang !
A Dull Roar What I Did On My Summer Deracination 2006
The best of 2.13.61 Publications
Get in the Van
The First Five (Rollins, Henry)
One from none
Art to Choke Hearts and Pissing in the Gene Pool
High adventure in the great outdoors
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Art to choke hearts
Body Bag [Uk Only]
Everything
Get in the Van - On the Road With Black Flag
Pissing in the Gene Pool
Gail Levin
Gail Levin (born 1948)

art historian, photographer, curator, academic, essayist, women's rights activist, historian, art theorist, artist, exhibition curator

  • Tufts University, Rutgers University

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Lee Krasner
Edward Hopper
Hopper's places
Synchromism and American color abstraction, 1910-1925
The Poetry of Solitude
Marsden Hartley in Bavaria
Ethics and the visual arts
Becoming Judy Chicago
Silent places
Twentieth-Century American Painting
Alex Katz, process and development
Theresa Bernstein A Century In Art
Aaron Copland's America
The Watercolors of Edward Hopper
The Paintings of Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper. Ein intimes Porträt
Marsden Hartley
Wassily Kandinsky and the American avant-garde, 1912-1950
Die gemalte Wirklichkeit. Edward Hopper und sein Amerika
Edward Hopper as illustrator
Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
Edeward Hopper as Illustrator
EDWARD HOPPER CROWN ART LIB (Crown Art Library)
Edward Hopper, prints and illustrations
Learning Through Songs
Symphonics R Us
Edward Hopper at Kennedy Galleries
Angel Mateo
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed (born 1968)

blogger, essayist, journalist, women's rights activist

  • Syracuse University, University of Minnesota

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Wild
Torch
Salvaje
Tiny beautiful things
Brave enough
Wild
Wild
Best American essays 2013
For Your Consideration, "Wild" (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Wild
An hei zhong, wang jian zui mei li de xiao shi
Pequeñas cosas bellas
Na shi hou, wo zhi sheng xia yong gan
Salvaje
Dzika droga
Two women walk into a bar
Divljina
Dikai͡a
Brittney C. Cooper
Brittney C. Cooper (born 1980)

activist

  • Emory University, Howard University

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Eloquent Rage
The crunk feminist collection
The Trouble with White Women
Stand Up!
Beyond respectability
But Some of Us Are Brave
Feminist AF
Crunk Feminist Collection
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 1939)

essayist, journalist, professor, actor, women's rights activist, critic, broadcaster, feminist, anarchist

  • University of Sydney, University of Melbourne

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Daddy we hardly knew you
Shakespeare's wife
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
White beech
The female eunuch
Shakespeare
The Change
The madwoman's underclothes
Sex and destiny
The obstacle race
The change: women aging and the menopause
The madwoman's underclothes
Slip-Shod Sibyls
Whitefella jump up
Whole Woman
Germaine Greer
Lines of Life
BOY
Whole Woman, The
Change, The
White Beech The Rainforest Years
Winged Words
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
La femme eunuque
The Change - Women, Ageing and The Menopause
On Rage
Poems for Gardeners
101 Poems by Women
The boy
White beech
The female eunuch
Sex and destiny
Daddywe hardly knew you
Martin Creed
Kissing the rod
Tacita Dean (Contemporary Artists)
SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE
Shakespeare's Wife (P.S.)
The female eunuch
Old black ram
Greer Germaine
Change: Women, Aging, and Menopause
La femme eunuque
Kissing the rod
Sexe & destinée
Die ganze Frau. Körper, Geist, Liebe, Macht
Juliet's wedding
Chico, El - El Efebo En Las Artes
WHITEFELLA JUMP UP
The Female Eunuch Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Shakespeare's Wife
Der weibliche Eunuch. Aufruf zur Befreiung der Frau
Kissing the Rod
The Whole Woman
El Cambio
La Mujer Eunuco
Sexo Y Destino/Sex and Destiny
Kissing the rod
Sexe et destinée
Mujer Completa, La
Kissing the rod
Madwomans Underclothes Essays and Occasion
The female eunuch
Gai bian : nü xing, lao hua yü ting jing
La femme entière
Lysistrata
Waris Dirie
Waris Dirie (born 1965)

model, autobiographer, women's rights activist, film actor, goodwill ambassador, actor, humanitarian

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Wüstenblume
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
Desert Children
Mijn Woestijn
Amanecer en el desierto
Echte vrouwen denken anders
Dochter van de nomaden
Schwarze Frau, weißes Land
Waris Dirie Omnibus
Brief an meine Mutter
Schmerzenskinder
Aube du Desert (l')
MY COUNTRY
Niñas del desierto
Anneme Mektup
Judith Wright
Judith Wright (1915-2000)

poet, human rights activist, historian, literary critic, environmentalist

  • University of Sydney

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Half a lifetime
The double tree
Born of the conquerors
The cry for the dead
The equal heart and mind
We call for a treaty
Charles Harpur
Collected poems, 1942-1970
The generations of men
A human pattern
With love & fury
Poems
Birds
Fourth quarter
The gateway
The other half
Going on talking
Because I was invited
Preoccupations in Australian poetry
Five senses
Alive: poems 1971-72
Tales of a great aunt
The moving image
A human pattern
The coral battleground
Alive
Conservation as an emerging concept
Range the mountains high
The day the mountains played
The nature of love
A book of Australian verse
The river and the road
Judith Wright reads from her own work
Woman to man
Phantom dwelling
A book of Australian verse
Selected Poems
Judith Wright
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

actor, women's rights activist, abolitionist

  • Emma Willard School

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The selected papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Words of Ages
The woman's Bible
Scarlet Letter with Connections
Eighty years and more
History of woman suffrage
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader
The original feminist attack on the Bible
[Letters]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, correspondence, writings, speeches
The slaves's appeal
Eighty years and more (1815-1897)
The papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Solitude of self
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Address of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the divorce bill
Speeches that Changed the World
Declaration of Sentiments (Little Books of Wisdom)
Address to the Legislature of New-York
Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bible and church degrade woman
History of woman suffrage
Eighty Years And More Reminiscences 1815 To 1897
Wyoming
The original attack on the Bible
A declaration of sentiments and resolutions
The slave's appeal
History of Women Suffrage
Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
EIGHTY YEARS & MORE
Bible and church degrade women
The slave's appeal
The woman's Bible
The Christian church and women
The Woman's Bible
Study guide to The woman's Bible
Suffrage, a natural right
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on her 80th birthday (Voices of feminism)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences
Address ... delivered at Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., July 19th and August 2d, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the matriarchate or mother-age (Voices of feminism)
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention
Address
Address to the legislature of New-York, adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention, held at Albany, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 & 15, 1854
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on socialism (Voices of feminism)
"I have all the rights I want."
Our famous women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on prisons and capital punishment (Voices of feminism)
History of woman suffrage
Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, delivered at Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., July 19th and August 2d, 1848
Coup-d'œil analytique sur l'histoire du suffrage de la femme aux États-Unis d'Amérique
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on socialism
History of woman suffrage
History of woman suffrage
Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Susan B. Anthony, officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Solitude of self
Suffrage of a natural right
[Letter to] Dear Fanny and Frank
Bible and church degrade women
Letter from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Stanton, to the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, Oct. 1850
The pleasures of age
Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth L. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony and Josephine L. Griffing, to the Congress of the United States, and the arguments thereon before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate
[Letter to] Mr. Garrison, Dear Friend
Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Woman's rights tracts
Suffrage
Address to the Legislature of New-York, adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention, held at Albany, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 & 15, 1854
History of woman suffrage
The Christian church and women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Eighty years and more (1815-1897)
Solitude of self
The woman's Bible
Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention, before the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly Chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights Association
Address of Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the divorce bill before the Judiciary Committee of the New York Senate in the assembly chamber, Feb. 8, 1861
Eighty years and more, 1815-1897
Address to the legislature of New-York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Autograph and commonplace book
Coup-d'oeil analytique sur L'histoire du suffrage de la femme auz États-Unis d'Amérique