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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (born 1951)

poet, musician, teacher, climate activist

  • University of New Mexico, University of Iowa

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Crazy brave
Soul talk, song language
Poet Warrior
Catching the Light
Crazy Brave
Soul Talk, Song Language
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
She Had Some Horses
The woman who fell from the sky
Winged words
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
How we became human
A Map to the Next World
Secrets from the Center of the World
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
Kinship
An American Sunrise
Poems and Stories
The Good Luck Cat
Conflict resolution for holy beings
The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
For a girl becoming
Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light
Remember
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
Living Nations, Living Words
Gatherings
Reinventing the enemy's language
American Sunrise
In mad love and war
What moon drove me to this?
The last song
Vastu Astrology
An American Sunrise Lib/E
Bright golden haze
Asrār min qalb al-ʻālam
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Secrets from the Center of the World
Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Land Carries Our Ancestors
Mankiller Poems
Remember 9-Copy Floor Display with Merchandising Kit
She Had Some Horses
Una dona valenta
THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT
Una dona valenta
Spiral of Memory
In Mad Love and War
Cutthroat 10th Anniversary A Tribute to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan
How We Became Human
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021)

psychiatrist, gynaecologist, politician, activist

  • Columbia University, Cairo University

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Mudhakkirātī fī sijn al-nisāʾ
Walking through fire
Mudhakkirāt ṭabībah
Memoirs from the women's prison
Mudhakkirātī fī sijn al-nisāʾ
A daughter of Isis
Awrāqī--ḥayātī
A Daughter of Isis
Daughter of Isis
Rihlati hawla al-alam (Kitab al-Hilal)
Walking through Fire
Walking through fire
Walking Through Fire
Daughter of Isis
Woman at point zero
The hidden face of Eve
The Nawal El Saadawi reader
God dies by the Nile
Imraʾatān fī imraʾah
Searching
The circling song
The Innocence of the Devil
The essential Nawal El Saadawi
The well of life
Zaynah
The innocence of the Devil
My Travels Around the World
The Fall of the Imam
Death of an ex-minister
She has no place in paradise
God Dies by the Nile
Īzīs
L' amore ai tempi del petrolio
Qaḍāyā al-marʾah wa-al-fikr wa-al-siyāsah
The Dramatic Literature Of Nawal El Saadawi
Maʻrakah jadīdah fī qaḍīyat al-marʼah
al- Ḥubb fī zaman al-nafṭ
She has no place in paradise
Maʻrakah jadīdah fī qaḍīyat al-Marʾah
God Dies by the Nile and other Novels by Nawal El Saadawi
Suqūṭ al-Imām
ʻAn al-marʾah
Two Women in One
Death of an Ex-minister
ʻAn al-marʼah
Zeina
Diary of a Child Called Souad
Memoirs of A Woman Doctor
Two Women in One
al- Wajh al-ʻārī lil-marʾah al-ʻArabīyah
The novel
al- Marʾah wa-al-ṣirāʻ al-nafsī
Circling Song
Two Women in One
Tawʾam al-sulṭah wa-al-jins
Literary Crossroads
al-Riwāyah
Innahu al-dam
Al hub fi zaman anaft
Dirāsāt ʻan al-marʼah wa-al-rajul fī al-mujtamaʻ al-ʻArabī
Unthā hiya al-aṣl
Kānat hiya al-aḍʻaf
Rajul wa-al-jins
al- Marʾah wa-al-dīn wa-al-akhlāq
al- Marʾah wa-al-ghurbah
(Imraʻtān fī imraʼah ...)
Off Limits
"The Well of Life" and "the Thread"
al- Rajul wa-al-jins
Memoirs of a woman doctor
ONSCHULD VAN DE DUIVEL, DE
Memoirs of A Woman Doctor
Ughniyat al-aṭfāl al-dāʼirīyah
al- Insān, ithnay ʻashar imraʼah fī zinzānah wāḥidah
Taʻallamtu al-ḥubb
al- Marʼah wa-al-ṣirāʻ al-nafsī
Al-Mar'ah wa-al-jins
Tschador
Innocence of Devil
Laḥẓat ṣidq
Qadaya al-marah wa-al-fikr wa-al-siyasah
al-Marah wa-al-ghurbah (Iqra)
ERGO! The Bumbershoot Literary Magazine (1986)
Innocence of the Devil El Saadawi
Dirāsāt ʻan al-marʾah wa-al-rajul fī al-mujtamaʻ al-ʻArabī
Mawt maʻālī al-wazīr sābiqan
Qadīyat al-marʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-siyāsīyah wa-al-jinsīyah
Pars Pro Toto III
Woman at Point Zero / the Circling Song
Searching
Ḥanān qalīl
The Day Mubarak Was Tried Der Tag An Dem Mubarak Der Prozess Gemacht Wurde Yawm Mukamat Mubrak
Firdaus. Storia di una donna egiziana
Prueba de Fuego
Al- Ghā'ib
Ughnīyat al-aṭfāl al-dāʾirīyah
Awraqi-- hayati
Jannāt ... wa-iblīs
Imraa' and nugtat al sifer
al- Khayṭ wa-ʻayn al-ḥayāh
al-Riwāyah
Mawt maʻālī al-wazīr sābiqan
Nawāl al-Saʻdāwī wa-al-thawrāt al-ʻArabīyah
God stierf bij de Nijl
Mawt maʻālī al-wazīr sābiqān
Mawt Al-Rajul Al-Wahid Ala Al-Ardd
Walking Through Fire
Death of an Ex-Minister
Mawt al-rajul al-waḥīd ʻalā al-arḍ
Imraʾtān fī imraʾah
Femmes égyptiennes
LA Hija De Isis
Mudhakkirāt ṭiflah
Kānat hiya al-aḍʻaf
Taʻallamtu al-ḥubb
Woman at Point Zero
Woman at Point Zero
Al untha hiya al asl
al- Insān, ithnay ʻashar imraʾah fī zinzānah wāḥidah
Mudhakkirāt ṭiflah ismuhā Sūʻād
Woman at Point Zero
The Innocence of the Devil (Literature of the Middle East)
al- Bāḥithah ʻan al-ḥubb
Imraʾah ʻinda nuqṭat al-ṣifr
She Has No Place in Paradise
Maout ma'ali al-wazir sabikan
My Life
Lahzat sidq
Zeina
Ḥanān qalīl
Ughniyat al-aṭfāl al-dāʾirīyah
Hamidas Geschichte. Erzählung. ( dtv drei kontinente)
God Dies by the Nile (Third World Literature)
Majmūʻat qiṣaṣ
Seytanin masumiyeti
Two Women in One
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels
La caída del Imán
Al-mar'ah wa-alsira' al-nafsi
Al ghaib
Fundamentalismus gegen Frauen
Mudhakkirat Tabibah
Essential Nawal el Saadawi
Dona al punt zero
Al-hub fi zaman al-naft
Al rajul wal jins
Douze femmes dans Kanater
Women at point Zero
Memorias De Una Joven Doctora/ Memoirs of a Young Female Doctor
Two Women in One (Women in Translation))
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998)

politician, human rights activist, activist, revolutionary

  • Howard University, University of Toronto Mississauga

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Ready for revolution
Black Power
Stokely speaks
Dialectics of liberation
Power and racism: what we want
Carles Puigdemont
Carles Puigdemont (born 1962)

political activist, journalist, politician

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La lucha en el exilio (2018-2020)
Cata-- què?
Re-unim-nos
Me explico
La crisi catalana
Quim Torra
Quim Torra (born 1962)

lawyer, editor, politician, opinion journalist, political activist

  • Autonomous University of Barcelona, Centre educatiu privat Jesuïtes Sarrià - Sant Ignasi

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Periodisme? Permetin!
Periodisme? Permetin!
Viatge involuntari a la Catalunya impossible
El quadern suís
Honorables
Les millors obres de la literatura catalana
Els últims 100 metres
Giuseppe Rensi
Giuseppe Rensi (1871-1941)

philosopher, lawyer, journalist, political activist

  • Sapienza University of Rome

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Giuseppe Rensi
Lo scetticismo estetico del Leopardi
La Philosophie de l'absurde
La filosofia dell'autorità
Autobiografia intellettuale
Spinoza
Apologia dell'ateismo
La democrazia diretta
Autorità e libertà
Principî di politica impopolare
Figure di filosofi
Teoria e pratica della reazione politica
Gorgia o della Psicagogia
Socialismo, democrazia, fascismo
La filosofia dell'assurdo
Una Repubblica italiana, il Cantone Ticino
Cicute
Lettere spirituali
Motivi spirituali platonici ...
Contro il lavoro
Principi di politica impopolare
Lettere spirituali
Su Leopardi
Realismo
Lo scetticismo
Rivoluzione e controrivoluzione nella recente storia d'Italia [di] G. Rensi [e] A. Ghisleri
Lineamenti di filosofia scettica
Spinoza
Le aporie della religione
Le ragioni dell' irrazionalismo
Interiora rerum ...
Anja Meulenbelt
Anja Meulenbelt (born 1945)

politician, women's rights activist

  • University of Amsterdam

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De schaamte voorbij
A small favor
Het beroofde land
Dagen in Gaza
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
Judith Wright
Judith Wright (1915-2000)

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

  • University of Sydney

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Half a lifetime
Charles Harpur
The generations of men
Tales of a great aunt
The double tree
Born of the conquerors
The cry for the dead
The equal heart and mind
We call for a treaty
Collected poems, 1942-1970
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
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