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Wangari Muta Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)

biologist, teacher, veterinarian, politician, environmentalist, activist

  • Benedictine College, University of Pittsburgh

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Unbowed
Celle qui plante les arbres
The Green Belt Movement
Replenishing the earth
The challenge for Africa
Little Hummingbird
The challenge for Africa
Pour l'amour des arbres
The Canopy of Hope
The bottom is heavy too
Devolver la abundancia a la tierra
The challenge for Africa
World We Once Lived In
Wangari Speaks Out
Flight of the Hummingbird
Movimiento Cinturón Verde.Compartiendo propuestas y experiencia
The challenge for Africa
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison (born 1949)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Florida State University, Eckerd College

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Skin
Two or three things I know for sure
Conversations with Dorothy Allison
Trash
Bastard out of Carolina
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
Ronald Segal
Ronald Segal (1932-2008)

journalist, opinion journalist, activist, editor

  • University of Cape Town, University of Cambridge

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The tragedy of Leon Trotsky
African profiles
Political Africa
Leon Trotsky
African profiles
The State of the World Atlas
The black diaspora
The Race War
Islam's Black slaves
The anguish of India
Whose Jerusalem?
America's receding future
The struggle against history
The Americans: a conflict of creed and reality
The crisis of India
Sauctions against South Africa
Political Africa
Into exile
The Crisis of India
The agony of apartheid
The Tokolosh
Atlas encyclopédique du monde
THE STATE OF THE WORLD ATLAS
De rassenoorlog
Bhārat kā buḥrān
The Americans
The crisis of India
Another revolution in New England
Into exile
Whose Jerusalem?
The Americans
The struggle against history
The crisis of India
The anguish of India
The decline and fall of the American dollar
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989)

politician, political activist, community organizer, bartender, waiter, publisher, educational strategist

  • Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University

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Eyes to the Wind
Eyes To The Wind
Raisa Orlova
Raisa Orlova (1918-1989)

philologist, human rights activist

  • Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History

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Последний год жизни Герцена
Briefe aus Köln über Bücher aus Moskau
Brittney C. Cooper
Brittney C. Cooper (born 1980)

activist

  • Emory University, Howard University

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Eloquent Rage
Beyond respectability
The crunk feminist collection
The Trouble with White Women
Stand Up!
But Some of Us Are Brave
Feminist AF
Crunk Feminist Collection
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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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Marilyn
Marilyn, Norma Jeane
My life on the road
Moving beyond words
Moving beyond words
The Women's Suffrage Movement
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Enslaved
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!
My life on the road
The essential Gloria Steinem reader
Maririn
Revolution from within
Choice Words
Feminist Family Values
Doing Sixty and Seventy
Free to Be You and Me
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Wonder Woman
Women Respond to the Men's Movement
Revolution from Within
Revolution from within
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 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
Arab Spring Dreams
My Forbesganj Garden
Qiu Jin
Qiu Jin (1875-1907)

poet, journalist, women's rights activist, revolutionary, feminist

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Qiu Jin nü xia yi ji
Qiu Jin xuan ji
Qiu Jin ji
Qiu Jin xian lie wen ji
Qiu Jin shi wen xuan zhu
Qiu Jin nü xia yi ji ; fu, xiao xia shi wen cao
Qiu Jin shi ji