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women's rights activists who wrote biography
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 1942)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Barnard College, Columbia University

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Fear of Fifty
The Devil At Large
Seducing the demon
Fear of fifty
Four visions of America
Rambles through an Alaskan wild
Botero: La corrida
Fear of fifty : a midlife memoir
Fanny
Inventing Memory
How to Save Your Own Life
Parachutes & kisses
At the edge of the body
Fear of Flying
Loveroot
Serenissima
Sugar in my bowl
Witches
Sappho's Leap
Ordinary miracles
Ballata di ogni donna
What Do Women Want?
Any Woman's Blues
Any woman's blues
Fear of flying
Megan's book of divorce
Parachutes and kisses
Megan's Two Houses
Sappho's leap
Fear of Flying CD
Love comes first
Shylock's Daughter
How to save your own life
Witches (Abradale Books)
Fruits & vegetables
Half-lives
How to save your own life
The devil at large
Becoming Light
Here comes & other poems
Witches
Becoming light
Serenissima
Serenissima
Here comes and other poems
Cancion triste de cualquier mujer
Fruits and Vegetables
Of Blessed Memory
Fear of flying
Keine Angst vor Fünfzig
Manolito Gafotas En LA Radio
La peur de l'âge
Miedo a Los 50
No más miedo
Der Buddha im Schoß. Über Sex, Macht und Literatur
FANNY
Devil At Large Miller
Serenissima
Les parachutes d'Icare
Fanny
Bendita Memoria
At the edge of the body
Fanny ou la Ve ridique histoire des aventures de Fanny Troussecottes-Jones
De mémoire de filles
Que Queremos Las Mujeres? - 2
Any Woman's Blues International
Fruits & vegetables
Miedo a Los Cincuenta
Paracadute e baci
Inventing memory
Diazugio
Here comes & other poems
Fear of flying
De mémoire de filles
Selected Poems
La planche de salut
Miedo a volar
Serensissima
In Their Own Voices - Volumes Three and Four
Half-lives
Erica Jong Fear of Flying
Ordinary miracles
Selected Poems Vol 2
Paracaidas Y Besos/Parachutes and Kisses
Miedo a Volar/Fear of Flying
Iliggos
Parasutculer ve Opucukler
Angst vorm Fliegen
Fallschirme & Küsse
Hekse
How to Steal Millions
Botero
Fear of flying
Megan's Book of Divorce
Witches
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
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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Edward Hopper
Becoming Judy Chicago
Lee Krasner
Hopper's places
Synchromism and American color abstraction, 1910-1925
The Poetry of Solitude
Marsden Hartley in Bavaria
Ethics and the visual arts
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
Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini (1936-2018)

women's rights activist

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Amir Hamzah, pangeran dari seberang
Dari Ngalian ke Sendowo
Tirai Menurun
Pada Sebuah Kapal
Jalan Bandungan
Keberangkatan
Monumen
Tanah baru, tanah air kedua
La Barka
Departures
Dari Parangakik ke Kampuchea
Jepun negerinya Hiroko
Kemayoran
Istri konsul
La Grande Borne
Langit dan bumi sahabat kami
Segi dan garis
Sebuah lorong di kotaku
Dari Rue Saint Simon ke Jalan Lembang
Orang-orang Tran
Argenteuil
Pencakar langit
Sekayu
Pertemuan dua hati
Sebuah lorong di kotaku
Tuileries
Dua dunia
Padang ilalang di belakang rumah
Namaku Hiroko
Pondok baca kembali ke Semarang
Sekayu
Hati jang damai
Namaku Hiroko
Janda muda
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed (born 1968)

blogger, essayist, journalist, women's rights activist

  • Syracuse University, University of Minnesota

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Wild
Salvaje
Wild
Wild
Na shi hou, wo zhi sheng xia yong gan
Dzika droga
Divljina
Dikai͡a
Torch
Tiny beautiful things
Brave enough
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
Salvaje
Two women walk into a bar
Eliška Krásnohorská
Eliška Krásnohorská (1847-1926)

women's rights activist, librettist, poet, literary critic, translator, editor, teacher, editing staff, critic

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Co přinesla léta
Z mého mládí
Šumavský Robinson
Eliska Krasnohorska - Bedrrich Smetana
Bajky velkých
Z našich Luhů
Kocour v botách a jiné pohádky
Pohádky naší babičky
Jiřinky
Svéhlavička ženuškou
Pěvec volnosti
Ze vzpomínek
Svéhlavička
Z máje žití
Obraz novějšího básnictví českého
Svéhlavička nevěstou
Svéhlavička nevěstou
Zvěsti a báje
Čertova stěna
Ze vzpomínek
Vlašťovičky
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