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women's rights activists who wrote autobiography
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Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy (born 1974)

journalist, women's rights activist

  • Wesleyan University

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The rules do not apply
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Female chauvinist pigs
The best American essays 2015
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison (born 1949)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Florida State University, Eckerd College

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Two or three things I know for sure
Conversations with Dorothy Allison
Trash
Bastard out of Carolina
Skin
Cavedweller
Ida Applebroog
Novel ideas
The women who hate me
The Writer's Notebook
The Road Aces and find Terry! He's lost (Road Aces series)
Zwei oder drei Dinge, die ich sicher weiß
Bastarda
Kuckuckskinder
Heimkehr nach Cayro
Find Terry! He's Lost
Tin House
Peau
A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison
Southern Sin
Dorothy Allison
Best of Tin House
L'Histoire de Bone
Cavedweller B d/Bx18 Inc 3 Free
Deux ou trois choses dont je suis sûre
What it took for me to get here
Bekart z Karoliny
Skin
Walking the edge
Bastard Out of Carolina
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
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
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem (born 1934)

journalist, reporter, activist, essayist, editor, lecturer, women's rights activist, actor, human rights activist, political activist

  • Smith College

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My life on the road
The Women's Suffrage Movement
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!
My life on the road
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Revolution from within
Marilyn
Choice Words
Feminist Family Values
Marilyn, Norma Jeane
Doing Sixty and Seventy
Free to Be You and Me
Moving beyond words
Moving beyond words
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Wonder Woman
Women Respond to the Men's Movement
Revolution from Within
Revolution from within
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Enslaved
Brass Notebook
Gloria Steinem on Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Une révolution intérieure
Içimizdeki devrim
Ir Mas Alla De Las Palabras
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
On Self Esteem and Scholars, Witches And Other Freedom Fighters
Gloria Steinem
Autostima
Herstory - Women Who Changed the World
The essential Gloria Steinem reader
The beach book
Uncommon Knowledge (Esprit Presents)
50 Years of Ms
Wonder woman
Spirit of Houston the First National Women's Conference
Letters to Ms.
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off
Doing Sixty and Seventy
MI VIDA EN LA CARRETERA
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Korean Language Edition)
Beach Book
Moving Beyond Words : Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Maririn
Arab Spring Dreams
My Forbesganj Garden
Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin (1879-1954)

women's rights activist

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The diaries of Miles Franklin
My Brilliant Career
All that swagger
MY CAREER GOES BUNG
Bring the monkey
Some everyday folk and Dawn
All that swagger
My brilliant career ; My career goes bung
My brilliant career
My congenials
On Dearborn Street
Ten creeks run
A gregarious culture
My Brilliant Career My Career Goes Bung
The end of my career
My Brilliant Career
Up the country
Up the country
My career goes bung
Joseph Furphy
The end of my career
Laughter, not for a cage
Up the country
Pioneers on parade
My Career Goes Bung - Purporting to be the Autobiography Of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn
Childhood at Brindabella
Ten Creeks Run
Pioneers on parade
Le Pays d'en haut
Cockatoos
Back to Bool Bool
Cockatoos, a story of youth and exodists
Prelude to waking, a novel in the first person and parentheses
My Brilliant Career
Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang, a tale of the jumbuck pads on the summer runs
Bring the monkey, a light novel
Old Blastus of Bandicoot, opuscule on a pioneer, tufted with ragged rhymes
My brilliant career