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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

political philosopher, journalist, autobiographer, essayist, political activist, diarist, philosopher, literary critic, feminist

  • University of Paris, Lycée Fénelon, Paris

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La Force des choses
Cérémonie des adieux
Une mort tres douce
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
All Said and Done
Journal de guerre
America Dia a Dia
Prime of Life, the (Twentieth Century Classics)
Beloved Chicago Man
Beloved Chicago Man
All Said and Done
Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir
La\Ceremonie des Adieux Entretiens avec Sartre
Gao bie de yi shi
娘時代
מוות רך מאוד
Olgunluk çağı
Mémoires
Sila obsto︠i︡atelʹstv
The Second Sex
Lettres à Sartre
Quand prime le spirituel
Le sang des autres
The long march
Les Mandarins
A transatlantic love affair
The Marquis de Sade
The Woman Destroyed
L Amerique Au Jour Le Jour
Lettres à Nelson Algren
Philosophical writings
She Came to Stay
"The useless mouths", and other literary writings
Simone de Beauvoir et le cours du monde
La mujer rota
Diary of a philosophy student
Le Deuxieme Sexe Tome 1
La Femme indépendante
Eine Gebrochene Frau
Alle Menschen sind sterblich.
Les Belles Images
La femme rompue
Une Mort Tres Douce
L' Amérique au jour le jour (1947)
Tous les hommes sont mortels
Otan to pnevma kyriarhi
Diary of a Philosophy Student
Las inseparables
FINAL DE CUENTAS
Les Belles Images
La plenitud de la vida/ The Plenitude of Life (Contemporanea
Mal entendido en Moscú - 2. ed.
Hard Times
Lettres à Nelson Algren
The Works of Simone de Beauvoir
Les bouches inutiles
Femme Rompue Monologue ­ L'Age de Discretion
Alle Mensen zijn Sterfelijk
Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita syndrome
Feminist Writings
Djamila Boupacha
Pour une morale de l'ambiguite
El Marqués de Sade - 1. edición
Dreams, fears, idols
Briefe an sartre
Nouvelles questions féministes
Écrire Marseille
After the War
In den besten Jahren
The Independent Woman
L' invitée
La vieillesse
Jamilah Būbāshā
Political writings
Barcelona
She Came to Stay
A history of sex
Moskovada Yanlis Anlama
What Is Existentialism?
SEGUNDO SEXO, EL
Les mandarins I
la force des choses i
The Long March
La Fuerza De Las Cosas / The Power Of Things
Besteen odola
Memorias de una joven formal
Woman Destroyed
La Vieillesse
She Came to Stay
Force of Circumstance
Memorias De Una Joven Formal
La mujer rota
Fiche de lecture Le Deuxième sexe de Simone de Beauvoir
La Mujer Rota. La Edad De La Discrecion
L' existentialisme et la sagesse des nations
Pleidooi voor een moraal der dubbelzinnigheid
Die Zeremonie des Abschieds. Und Gespräche mit Jean-Paul Sartre August-September 1974
The Blood of Others
Pyrrhus et Cinéas
La Force des choses
Adieux
Por uma Moral da Ambiguidade
La Force Des Choses II
Nature of the second sex
Force of circumstance
Diario de Guerra Septiembre de 1939 - Enero de 1941
Fuerza de las cosas, La
Memoiren einer Tochter aus gutem Hause
Kadin 1-Genc Kizlik Cagi
Las bellas imágenes
Amerika. Tag und Nacht.
Blood of Others
La force de l'age II
The prime of life
O Segundo Sexo -Box Edicao Comemorativa 1949 - 2019
La Mujer Rota
Uitgenodigd
By Simone de Beauvoir - The Blood of Others (Penguin Modern Classics) (1986-09-25) [Paperback]
Memoires d'une jeune fille rangee
Die Welt der schönen Bilder
Starosc
L'invitée
Malentendido en Moscú
La longue marche
La longue marche Essai sur la Chine
Nature of the Second Sex
Besteen odola
La mujer rota
Pour une Morale de l'Ambiguite Pyrrhus et Cineas
Lettres a Sartre, 1940-1963
Cahiers de jeunesse
Bigarren sexua
Mißverständnisse an der Moskwa. Eine Erzählung
Pewnego razu w Moskwie
Nelson Algren'e Ask Mektuplari
Sie kam und blieb
What Is Existentialism?
The Ethics of Ambiguity. 1948.
Fiche de lecture Le Deuxième sexe de Simone de Beauvoir
PLENITUD DE LA VIDA, LA
The Marquis de Sade
DE TWEEDE SEKSE
Veda Töreni
O segundo sexo II
Le Deuxième Sexe 1
Quando tutte le donne del mondo...
L' invite e
Il secondo sesso
Cuando predomina lo espiritual
L'invitée
Besteen odola
Simone de Beauvoir today
La force des choses II
Cartas A Nelson Allgren
Les Bouches Intuiles
MEMORIAS DE UNA JOVEN FORMAL
L'Invitee
America Day by Day
La invitada
Lettres a Sartre, 1930-39
Sessiz Bir Olum
The ethics of ambiguity
Very Easy Death
Les Belles Images
Misverstand in Moskou
Simone de Beauvoir
Second Sex (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Prime of Life
Coming of Age
Les inseparables
Ein sanfter Tod
Privilèges
THE MANDARINS A NOVEL
Hay Que Quemar a Sade?
Eine gebrochene Frau. Literatur für Kopf Hörer. 2 Cassetten.
Les belles imatges
L'invitée
The Mandarins
Wartime Diary
Das Alter
Les mandarins II
Les inseparables
Lettres à Sartre, tome 2
La vieillesse. Essai
Be Loved, Be Admired, Be Necessary; Be Somebody
Mandarinler
La Force de l'age I (Collection Folio, 751)
The Mandarins
O Segundo Sexo - Caixa
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Mes Premieres Decouvertes
Blood of Others
Le Deuxieme Sexe Vol. 2
UNE MORT TRES DOUCE. RECIT.
She came to stay
Correspondance croisée
Alles Wel Beschouwd
My Life Volume 1 Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter
Joyce en París
Malentès a Moscou
Besteen odola
Useless Mouths and Other Literary Writings
Long March, The
Ikinci Cinsiyet
Misunderstanding in Moscow
Lettres a Nelson Algren
Memoria de Una Joven Formal
When Things of the Spirit Come First
Soll man de Sade verbrennen. Drei Essays zur Moral des Existentialismus
Das Alter
Invitee
Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter
Bütün İnsanlar Ölümlüdür
Works of Simone de Beauvoir : The Second Sex and the Ethics of Ambiguity:
Fiche de lecture Le Deuxième sexe de Simone de Beauvoir
Mandarinler
Yikilmis Kadin
Amerika, Tag und Nacht
La Forge de L'Age
Ningen ni tsuite
Les mandarins
Who shall die?
Tous les hommes sont mortels
L' Amerique au jour le jour, 1947
Les belles images.
Alles in allem
El pensamiento político de la derecha
Les mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir et la lutte des femmes
Conversaciones Con Jean-Paul Sartre (La Ceremonia Del Adios, Agosto-Septiembre 1974)
Zikhronoteha shel naʻarah meḥunekhet
La invitada
Briefe an Sartre 1. 1930 - 1939.
Damam shel aḥerim
Druhé pohlavie
L'Amérique au jour le jour 1947
Liḳrat musar shel du-mashmaʻut
Oeuvres de Simone de Beauvoir
La Cérémonie des adieup suivi de entretiens avec Jean-Paul Sartre Août-Septembre 1974
She Came to Stay
אישה שבורה
Les belles images.
My life
Nü ren shi she mo
La Plenitud De La Vida (Pocket Sudamericana)
Diario de Guerra - Set. 1939 a Ene. 1941
Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir
La Force de L'Age, Vol. 1
La foice des choses
La mujer rota
La\Force Des Choses Tome II
The coming of age
Todos Los Hombres Son Mortales
La mujer rota
Briefe an Sartre 2. 1940 - 1963.
L'invitée
Konuk kız
Ishah le-vad
Lettres au Castor et a Quelques Autres 1926 - ­1939
Simone de Beauvoir, film de Josée Dayan et Malka Ribowski
L' invite e, roman
Simone de Beauvoir Aujourd'hui/ Six Entretiens
Oeuvres de Simone de Beauvoir
Mujer Rota, La
La Force des Choses
Cuando predomina lo espiritual
La Invitada
Sartre
Śliczne obrazki
La Ceremonia del Adios
Kadin
Nu xing sheng jing
Yikilmis Kabin
Poets & Players
Yikiemis Kalin
La\Force Des Choses Tome I
Lettres a Sartre, 1930-1939
Les inséparables
La Force de L'Age, Vol. 2
Utsukushii eizō
Invitada, La
Denemeler
Di er xing
Final de Cuentas
Kadinligimin Hikayesi
Een wereld van mooie plaatjes
Lettres d'amitié
L' Americque au jour le jour, 1947
Druga płeć
La longue marche
Daini no sei
Las bellas imágenes
De bloei van het leven
Ishah shevurah
Lettres Au Castor Et a Quelques Autres, 1940-1963
La\Viellesse Vol. 1
Memoires jeune fille rangee
La\Viellesse Vol. 2
Memorias de una joven formal. Una muerte muy dulce
Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy (born 1936)

poet, women's rights activist, activist, climate activist

  • University of Michigan, Northwestern University

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Sleeping with Cats
So You Want to Write
My Life, My Body
So You Want to Write
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
He, She and It
Small changes
The third child
The longings of women
Vida
Summer People
The twelve spoked wheel flashing
City of Darkness City of Light
Gone to soldiers
Sex Wars
The Crooked Inheritance
Fly away home
Colors passing through us
Braided Lives
Living in the open
Paths of Resistance
Three women
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
My mother's body
Storm tide
Circles on the water
Pesach for the Rest of Us
Dance the eagle to sleep
What are big girls made of?
The Art of Blessing the Day
Hard Loving
Summer people
Braided lives
Hard Loving Poems
Storm tide
Early grrrl
The high cost of living
The longings of women
Stone, paper, knife
Parti-colored blocks for a quilt
Going Down Fast
4-telling
To be of use
Mars and her children
The moon is always female
Breaking camp
Marge Piercy
Three women
Storm tide
Braided Lives
Body of glass
On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light
Early ripening
Early Ripening
The hunger moon
The cost of lunch, etc
Vida
Three women
Made in Detroit
City of Darkness, City of Light
Available light
The high cost of living
The Earth Shines Secretly
Vida
Will Work For Peace
High Cost of Living
Dance the Eagle to Sleep
Stufen aus Glas
The Cost of Lunch, Etc
Dance Eagle to Sleep
Hard Loving
Parti-colored blocks for a quilt
The Hunger Moon
The last white class
Sehnsüchte
Gone to soldiers
Sex wars
Mujer al borde del tiempo
Dance the Eagle to Sleep
Small changes
Louder: We Can't Hear You(Yet)
Going down fast
Small Changes 3
The Cost of Lunch, Etc
Sleeping with Cats
He, She and It (MM to TR Promotion)
He, She and It
The Cost of Lunch, Etc
City of Darkness, City of Light
The Longing of Woman
Mars & Her Children
The high cost of living
Breaking camp
Three Degrees Below Desperate
The faithless
Eight chambers of the heart
High Cost of Living
Marge Piercy, Interview
Fly Away Home
Sex Wars
Summer People
La saison jolie
Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies
Written in Bone
Three Women Proof Copy
Third Child
Dance the Eagle to Sleep
Er, Sie und Es
Vida
Summer People
Longings of Women
Storm Tide by Marge Piercy (1998-08-05)
He, She and It
Gone to Soldiers Lib/E
Örülü Hayatlar
Gone to soldiers
Fly Away Home
Small changes
Going down Fast
Longings of Women
Crooked Inheritance
Kucuk Degisimler
Woman on the Edge of Time
Breaking camp
When the drouth broke
Summer People-Open Mkt
The grand coolie damn
Subversions
Gone to Soldiers
Storm Tide
Pedro Lemebel
Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015)

plastic artist, performance artist, LGBTQ rights activist

  • Instituto Pedagógico, Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño

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Mi amiga Gladys
My Tender Matador
Loco afán : crónicas de sidario
Tengo miedo torero
Zanjón de la aguada
Tengo Miedo Torero
Loco Afan
Serenata cafiola
La esquina es mi corazón
Adiós mariquita linda
De perlas y cicatrices
Tengo Miedo Torero
Galeria Metropolitana, 1998-2004...
Poco Hombre
Ella entró por la ventana del baño
No tengo amigos, tengo amores
Háblame de amores
Loren Cameron
Loren Cameron (1959-2022)

photographer, LGBTQ rights activist

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Cameron
Body Alchemy
Cuerpos fotografiados por Cameron
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)

nurse, sex columnist, activist, trade unionist, women's rights activist, film director, educator

  • Claverack College

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Margaret Sanger
Reader's digest family treasury of great biographies - Volume 12
Margaret Sanger an Autobiography
My fight for birth control
The selected papers of Margaret Sanger
Woman and the New Race
The Pivot of Civilization
The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger
The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Volume 3
Motherhood in Bondage (Women and Health)
Happiness in marriage
The Margaret Sanger papers
What every girl should know
The fight for birth control ..
Woman, morality, and birth control
Family Limitation
The pivot of civilization in historical perspective
The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Volume 2
Motherhood in Bondage (Women and Health, Cultural and Social Perspective Series)
Woman Rebel
Questions and answers about birth control
Woman and the new Race
Motherhood in bondage
Debate on birth control
Motherhood in Bondage
What every boy and girl should know
The Margaret Sanger papers
Margaret Sanger
What every mother should know
The Pivot of Civilization
Debate between Margaret Sanger, negative, and Winter Russell, affirmative
Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Vol. 4
Family limitation
Women and the New Race
The people of the state of New York, respondent, against Margaret H. Sanger, defendant-appellant
The case for birth control
Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4
Federal interference with the administration of state laws
The papers of Margaret Sanger
The new motherhood
Margaret Sanger
World trip journal 1922
What every boy and girl should know
Ṿos yede meydel darf ṿisn
People v. Sideri et als
One hundred years of birth control
Ograniczenie ... Liczby Dzieci ...
The birth control movement
Geburṭ ḳonṭrol
Race-suicide, birth-control
Ṿos yede muṭer darf ṿisen
Sayings of others on birth control
The new motherhood
A szülések korlátozása
Ṿos yede meydel darf ṿisn
Sheng yu jie zhi lun
Margaret Sanger papers
Debate on birth control
What every girl should know
Liebe - ohne unerwünschte Kinder!
Liebe ohne Folgen!
One hundred years of birth control
Sheng yu jie zhi lun
Žena a nové pokolení
Comment se preserver de la grossesse
My fight for birth control
Woman of the future
My answer to the Pope on birth control
List of one hundred selected books on human relations for lay and professional readers
The Mother's Bill of Rights
Voluntary motherhood
Yosef Schwartz
Yosef Schwartz (born 1965)

activist, professor, religious studies scholar, medievalist, philosopher

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Metzler Lexikon j©ơdischer Philosophen
Lekha dumiyah
Seelengrund auf Seinsgrund
Neshef masekhot be-ʻIr ha-Elohim
Meha-minzar el ha-universiṭah
Meḳorot la-shiʻur zeramim modernim le-shiʻuraṿ shel mar Yosef Shṿarts
Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov (1943-2020)

dissident, politician, poet, human rights activist, journalist, opinion journalist

  • H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University

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Torzhestvo metafiziki
Kniga Vody
Po ti͡u︡rʹmam
Kniga mërtvykh
Okhota na Bykova
Moi͡a︡ politicheskai͡a︡ biografii͡a︡
His butler's story
Ubiĭstvo Chasovogo
Butyrskai︠a︡-Sortirovochnai︠a︡, ili Smertʹ v avtozake
Ėto i︠a︡, Ėdichka
Drugai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡
Russkoe psikho
Istorii︠a︡ ego slugi
Limonov protiv Zhirinovskogo
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡
Kontrolʹnyĭ vystrel
Ukroshchenie tigra v Parizhe
Svi︠a︡shchennye monstry
Palach
Kak my stroĭli budushchee Rossiĭ
Dist︠s︡iplinarnyĭ sanatoriĭ
316, punkt "V"
Velikai͡a︡ matʹ li͡u︡bvi
Limonov
Memoir of a Russian punk
Amerikanskie kanikuly
El libro de las aguas
Devochka-zverʹ
Dnevnik neudachnika, ili, sekretnai͡a︡ tetradʹ
Journal d'un raté
Podrostok Savenko
Konʹi͡a︡k "Napoleon"
Molodoĭ negodi͡a︡ĭ
U nas byla velikai͡a︡ ėpokha
Russkoe
Sobranie sochineniĭ v trekh tomakh
Dnevnik neudachnika
Inostranet͡s︡
Lou Sullivan
Lou Sullivan (1951-1991)

activist

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We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Information for the female-to-male crossdresser and transsexual
Youngman