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women's rights activists who wrote autobiography
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Angela Davis
Angela Davis (born 1944)

human rights activist, philosopher, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, political prisoner, feminist, professor

  • University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Angela Davis--an autobiography
Women, culture & politics
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
We the Resistance
If They Come in the Morning
Abolition democracy
Disability Incarcerated Imprisonment And Disability In The United States And Canada
The Angela Y. Davis reader
Abolition. Feminism. Now
Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)
Cinde'Reader
The meaning of freedom
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass
Art on the Frontline
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia
The Prison Industrial Complex
Great Refusal
Una historia de la conciencia
Prinsetta
Materialien zur Rassenjustiz
Decolonial Ecology
Violence against women and the ongoing challenge to racism
Radical Thinkers
Lectures on liberation
Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out
Black Power Mixtape
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
La revolució avui / Revolution today
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Prisons and American History
This Believer's Truth
Abolition
Beyond the frame
The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogs
Angela Davis speaks
What If I Am A Woman? - Volume Two
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950)

journalist, women's rights activist

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Daughter of earth
The great road
The Great road
China fights back
Battle hymn of China
Portraits of Chinese women in revolution
Chinese destinies
China's Red army marches
China kämpft
India and the next war
Red flood over China
China Fights Back - An American Woman With The Eighth Route Army
Korea handbook
Kun en kvinde
Tu ji dui
Zhongguo zai fan ji
Red flood over China
Zhongguo de zhan ge
Hai wai hui xiang
Zhu De zhuan
Kun en kvinde
Zhongguo zhi zhan ge
Battle hymn of China
Zhongguo hong jun zai qian jin ; Da di di nü er
China fights back
Sama
Rasskazy o kitaĭskoĭ Krasnoĭ armii
Chinese destinies
Da di de nu er
Wei da de dao lu
Eine Frau allein
Xi zhan chang de ku ying xiong
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (born 1962)

physician, women's rights activist

  • Mymensingh Medical College

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Shame
Das Mädchen, das ich war. Die Autobiographie einer Kindheit. ( Sachbuch)
Das Mädchen, da ich war
Nirbachita column
Farasi premik
The Game in Reverse
Taslima Nasrin ki kavitaiye
Nashta meyer nashta gadya
Meyebela
Verguenza
Ka
Nirbachita nari
Phera
Lajja
Jabo na kena? jabo
Amar meyebela
Aye kashta jhepe jiban debo mep
Anja Meulenbelt
Anja Meulenbelt (born 1945)

politician, women's rights activist

  • University of Amsterdam

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De schaamte voorbij
Het beroofde land
Dagen in Gaza
A small favor
Blessuretijd
Chodorow en verder
Vanille en andere smaken
De bewondering
De ziekte bestrijden, niet de patiënt
De schillen van de ui
Casablanca, of de onmogelijkheden van de heteroseksuele liefde
Alba
Geliebtes Untier
Meer dan één engel
Feminismus
For ourselves
Je broer en ik
A Creative tension
Zoals het oog de regenboog
Vrouwen en alcohol
Auszeit
Voor onszelf
Gon Buurman
Kleine voeten, grote voeten
Feminisme en socialisme
Art1kel
Creative Tension: Key Issues of Socialist Feminism
A Creative tension
Wat is feminisme?
Emancipatie en overspel
Zwischen zwei Stühlen
Feminismus und Sozialismus
Geliefde ramp
Frauensexualität
für uns selbst
Ich wollte nur dein Bestes
Samira Bellil
Samira Bellil (1972-2004)

specialized educator, activist, women's rights activist

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To hell and back
Dans l'enfer des tournantes
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

suffragette, politician, women's rights activist, human rights activist

  • École Normale Supérieure

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My Own Story
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
Little People, Big Dreams Series 1 & 2
The suffragettes
Verbatim report of Mrs. Pankhurst's speech, delivered Nov. 13, 1913 at Parsons' Theatre, Hartford, Conn
Suffragette
Speech of Emmeline Pankhurst, Columbia Theatre, Washington, D.C., Sunday, November 23, 1913
Suffrage speeches from the dock
Verbatim report of Mrs. Pankhurst's speech
The trial of the suffragette leaders
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947)

judge, human rights activist, peace activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, politician, jurist

  • University of Tehran

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Iran awakening
Until we are free
White Torture
Refugee Rights In Iran
Ḥuqūq-i pizishkī
Ḥuqūq-i adabī va hunarī
History and documentation of human rights in Iran
Tārīkhchah va asnād-i ḥuqūq-i bashar dar Īrān
Kārgarān-i Khurdsāl
Ḥuqūq-i miʻmārī
iranienne et libre
Iran ontwaakt
Iranienne et libre
La jaula de oro
La jaula de oro
Hasta que seamos libres
Iranienne et libre
Altin Kafes
Bis wir frei sind
Golden Cage
Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

nurse, poet, women's rights activist, pacifist, journalist, peace activist, suffragist

  • University of Oxford

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Testament of youth
Testament of friendship
Testament of experience
Chronicle of youth
Letters from a lost generation
The rebel passion
England's hour
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of youth
One Voice
Testament offriendship
Dark Tide
Wartime chronicle
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
England's Hour
Honourable estate
Chronicle of friendship
Testament of a peace lover
Account rendered
Phoenix: Chronicle of Youth
Good citizenship and the League
Valiant pilgrim
The women at Oxford
Poems of the war and after
Pethick-Lawrence
In the steps of John Bunyan
Honourable Estate
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby
Born 1925, a novel of youth
Testament of youth
Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In (Virago Modern Classics)
Because you died
Humiliation with honor
Verses of a V.A.D
Seed of chaos
On becoming a writer
Honourable estate
Humiliation with honour
War diary 1913-1917
Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945
Testament of a generation
Born 1925
Testament of experience
Thrice a stranger
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of friendship; the story of Winifred Holtby
The story of St. Martin's
Born 1925
Verses of a V. A. D.
Testament of Youth
Pethick-Lawrence
"One of these little ones..."
Born 1925
Envoy extraordinary
Women's work in modern England
On being an author
Oxford poetry
Search after sunrise
Testament of youth
Lady into woman
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
Envoy extraordinary
Halcyon
Halcyon or the future of monogamy
On becoming a writer
Valient pilgrim
Lady into woman
War-time letters to peace lovers
BORN 1925
Radclyffe Hall
Above all nations
Verses of a V.A.D. and other war poems
The dark tide
The story of St. Martin's (in the fields)
Women's work in modern England
Testament of experience
How shall the Christian Church prepare for new world order?
The rebel passion
Verses of a V.A.D.
Testament of friendship
Zai Ying lun qian xian