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women's rights activists who wrote biography
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Marilyn French
Marilyn French (1929-2009)

women's rights activist, social critic, feminist

  • Hofstra University, Harvard University

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A Season in Hell
The Bleeding Heart
The book as world
Our Father
The war against women
From Eve to Dawn
Her Mother's Daughter
The love children
The Women's Room
My summer with George
Shakespeare's division of experience
In the Name of Friendship
From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World, Volume III
Beyond Power On Women Men and Morals
La fascination du pouvoir
From Eve to dawn
From Eve to Dawn : a History of Women in the World Volume II
Frauen. Roman
Tochter ihrer Mutter
Vater unser
From Eve to Dawn
Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century
La fascination du pouvoir
Frau en
History of Women in the World
From Eve To Dawn A History Of Women
Toilettes pour femmes
Les bons sentiments
Revolutions and the Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century
Toilettes pour femmes
Das blutende Herz
Mein Sommer mit George
Bloom
Tochter ihrer Mutter. Roman
Mia madre non mi ha mai spazzolato i capelli
Der weiße Handschuh und andere Erzählungen
Women of Marilyn French
Tochter ihrer Mutter
Das blutende Herz
From Eve to Dawn
El cuarto de las mujeres
Das blutende Herz
Jenseits der Macht - Frauen, Männer und Moral.
Ruimte voor vrouwen
Kadinlara Mahsus
Solo para mujeres
From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World
Women's History of the World
Jenseits der Macht
Telle mère telle fille
Haar Moeders Dochter
In naam van de vriendschap
Tagebuch einer Sklavin
Mujeres
Les bons sentiments
Haar moeders dochter
Onze vader
Die Zukunft den Frauen
The women's room
ha-Lev ha-shotet
Kinderen van de liefde
Het bloedend hart
Het Boek als Wereld
Kvinner
Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf (born 1962)

activist, political adviser, journalist, women's rights activist

  • Yale University, University of Oxford

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The treehouse
Fire with Fire
Misconceptions
The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women
The end of America
Vagina : una nueva biografía de la sexualidad femenina. - 1. edición
America
Outrages
Give me liberty
Wolf whistle politics
Vom Ende der Unschuld. Oder Das sexuelle Drama, eine Frau zu werden
The Bodies of Others
Outrages
War Room / DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Reports
Naomi Wolf Backlist
Two traditions
End of America
Power Feminism
Give Me Liberty
Facing the Beast
War Room / DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Volunteers' Reports EBook
Valse Verwachting
Feminist Revolution : A Story of the Three Most Inspiring and Empowering Women in American History
El mito de la belleza
Banner Fire with Fire
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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

actor, women's rights activist, abolitionist

  • Emma Willard School

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The selected papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Eighty years and more
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker
Eighty years and more (1815-1897)
Our famous women
Eighty years and more (1815-1897)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Words of Ages
The woman's Bible
Scarlet Letter with Connections
History of woman suffrage
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader
The original feminist attack on the Bible
[Letters]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, correspondence, writings, speeches
The slaves's appeal
The papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Solitude of self
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Address of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the divorce bill
Speeches that Changed the World
Declaration of Sentiments (Little Books of Wisdom)
Address to the Legislature of New-York
Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bible and church degrade woman
History of woman suffrage
Eighty Years And More Reminiscences 1815 To 1897
Wyoming
The original attack on the Bible
A declaration of sentiments and resolutions
The slave's appeal
History of Women Suffrage
Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
EIGHTY YEARS & MORE
Bible and church degrade women
The slave's appeal
The woman's Bible
The Christian church and women
The Woman's Bible
Study guide to The woman's Bible
Suffrage, a natural right
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on her 80th birthday (Voices of feminism)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences
Address ... delivered at Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., July 19th and August 2d, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the matriarchate or mother-age (Voices of feminism)
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention
Address
Address to the legislature of New-York, adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention, held at Albany, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 & 15, 1854
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on socialism (Voices of feminism)
"I have all the rights I want."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on prisons and capital punishment (Voices of feminism)
History of woman suffrage
Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, delivered at Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., July 19th and August 2d, 1848
Coup-d'œil analytique sur l'histoire du suffrage de la femme aux États-Unis d'Amérique
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on socialism
History of woman suffrage
History of woman suffrage
Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Susan B. Anthony, officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Solitude of self
Suffrage of a natural right
[Letter to] Dear Fanny and Frank
Bible and church degrade women
Letter from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Stanton, to the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, Oct. 1850
The pleasures of age
Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth L. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony and Josephine L. Griffing, to the Congress of the United States, and the arguments thereon before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate
[Letter to] Mr. Garrison, Dear Friend
Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Woman's rights tracts
Suffrage
Address to the Legislature of New-York, adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention, held at Albany, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 & 15, 1854
History of woman suffrage
The Christian church and women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Solitude of self
The woman's Bible
Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention, before the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly Chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights Association
Address of Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the divorce bill before the Judiciary Committee of the New York Senate in the assembly chamber, Feb. 8, 1861
Eighty years and more, 1815-1897
Address to the legislature of New-York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Autograph and commonplace book
Coup-d'oeil analytique sur L'histoire du suffrage de la femme auz États-Unis d'Amérique
Frances Power Cobbe
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904)

philanthropist, women's rights activist, philosopher, suffragist, suffragette, editor

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Life of Frances Power Cobbe
Life of Frances Power Cobbe, by herself (Thoemmes Press- Thoemmes Library of Social Thought)
Darwinism In Morals And Other Essays
The duties of women
Religious duty
The Cities Of The Past
Italics
The hopes of the human race
Broken lights
The modern rack
The hopes of the human race, hereafter and here
Darwinism in morals
Rejoinder to Mrs. Stowe's reply to the address of the women of England
Hours of Work and Play
The red flag in John Bull's eyes
The moral aspects of vivisection
The friend of man, and his friends, the poets
Dawning lights
A faithless world
Essays on the pursuits of women, reprinted from Fraser's and Macmillan's magazines
The confessions of a lost dog
The peak in Darien
Alone to the alone
Studies New and Old of Ethical and Social Subjects
Studies New and Old of Ethical and Social Subjects
The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes
Alone to the Alone: Prayers for Theists by Several Contributors. Ed., with a Preface
Vivisection in America
Alone to the alone
Decemnovenarianism
Self-development and Self-abnegation
Theory of morals
A faithless world ; and, Heath and holiness
Essays On The Pursuits Of Women And A Paper On Female Education
Religious Demands of the Age: A Reprint of the Preface to the London Edition ..
An essay on intuitive morals
An essay on intuitive morals [by F.P. Cobbe] 2 pt
Essays on the pursuits of women
Essays on the pursuits of women. Also a paper on Female education
The Hierarchy of Art
The Philosophy of the Poor-laws
The Friend of Man
Hades
The Sacred Books Of The Zoroastrians
Practice of morals. Book 1, Religious duty
Rest in the Lord
The scientific spirit of the age
Re-echoes
Thanksgiving, a chapter of religious duty
The Morals of Literature
Life Of Frances Power Cobbe V1
Christian Ethics and the Ethics of Christ
The higher expediency
The study of physiology as a branch of education
The right of tormenting
Public money
Vivisection in America
The modern rack; papers on vivisection
The future of the lower animals
What is progress, and are we progressing?
Criminals, idiots, women, and minors, is the classification sound?
The theory of intuitive morals
Illustrations of vivisection, or, Experiments on living animals
The Janus of science
The moral aspects of vivisection
The workhouse as an hospital
Friendless girls, and how to help them
The hopes of the human race, hereafter and here
The hope of the human race
False beasts and true
Studies new & old of ethical & social subjects
Life of Frances Power Cobbe
The moral aspects of vivisection
Science in excelsis
Why women desire the franchise
[Robertson's life and letters]
An essay on intuitive morals
Concerning immortality
The red flag in John Bull's eyes
An essay on intuitive morals
The hopes of the human race
Frances Power Cobbe said "Hang the doctors."
The house on the shore of eternity
The modern rack; papers on vivisection
Italics
Alone to the alone
The sick in workhouses, who they are, and how they should be treated
An essay on intuitive morals
Rejoinder to Mrs. Stowe's reply to the address of the women of England
The peak in Darien
Our policy
VI. - The life after death
Religious duty
Light in dark places
False beasts and true
Lucy Aikin
Lucy Aikin (1781-1864)

historian, women's rights activist

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Memoir of John Aikin, M.D.
Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth
Aesop's fables
Sandford and Merton
Memoirs of the court of King James the First
Epistles On Women
Juvenile correspondence, or, Letters designed as examples of the epistolary style
Memoirs of the court of King Charles the First
Memoirs Of The Court Of James The First V2
Lorimer
Memoirs Of The Court Of James The First V1
The life of Joseph Addison
The Life Of Joseph Addison V1
Memoir of John Aikin
Epistles on women and other works
Sandford and Merton in words of one syllable
Memoirs, miscellanies and letters
Evenings at home
Memoirs Of The Court Of King James The First V2
Epistles on Women, 1810
Memoirs of the court of King James the First
Epistles on women
Robinson Crusoe
Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth
Evenings at home in words of one syllable
Memoirs, miscellanies and letters
Lorimer, a tale
Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable
Memoirs of the court of Elizabeth
Poetry for children
Epistles on women, exemplifying their character and condition in various ages and nations
Juvenile correspondence
Æsop's fables in words of one syllable
Memoirs Of The Court Of King James The First Part Two
Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable
Memoirs Of The Court Of King James The First V1
Memoirs Of The Court Of King James The First Part One
An English lesson book
The life of Joseph Addison
Poetry for children
Holiday stories
An English lesson book for the junior classes
The Swiss family Robinson
Memoirs; miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin; including those addressed to the Rev. Dr. Channing 1826 to 1842
Carmen de Burgo
Carmen de Burgo (1867-1932)

journalist, translator, women's rights activist, editor, suffragist

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Hablando con los descendientes
Puñal de claveles
Los inadaptados y otros
El divorcio en España
La Hora del Amor
La rampa
La mujer en el hogar
La indecisa
Cuentos terroríficos
Gloriosa vida y desdichada muerte de Don Rafael del Riego
Figaro
"Figaro"
Cartas sin destinatario
Mis viajes por Europa I
La flor de la playa y otras novelas cortas
Nuevos modelos de cartas
"La ciudad encantada" de Carmen de Burgos
Notas del alma
Mis viajes por Europa II
En la guerra
Giacomo Leopardi I
Giacomo Leopardi II
Arte de saber vivir
La protección y la higiene de los niños
Quiere usted comer bien?
Senderos de vida
On Modern Women and Their Rights
La Hora del Amor
Siempre en tierra
Confidencias de artistas
El tesoro del castillo
La rampa
Quiere usted comer bien?
Quiere Usted ser Amada?
El retorno
La mujer en España
La mujer en España
Moderno tratado de labores
Las artes de la mujer
Amádis
"La ciudad encantada" de Carmen de Burgos
"Fígaro" (revelaciones, "ella" descubierta
Quiere V. Conocer los Secretos del Tocador?
El veneno del arte
Quiero vivir mi vida
El honor de la familia
La justicia del mar
El arte de ser amada
Cuentos de Colombine
Puñal de claveles
Nuevos modelos de cartas ..
Los endemoniados de Jaca
La mujer fría
Mis viajes por Europa
Cuentos terroríficos
El perseguidor
Mis viajes por Europa
El extranjero
Confesiones de artistas
Mis viajes por Europa: Suiza, Dinamarca, Suecia, Noruega, Alemania, Inglaterra, Portugal
La que se casó muy niña
Los negociantes de la puerta del sol
La voz de los muertos
La miniatura
Novelas del ciclo de Rodalquilar
La princesa rusa
Mis mejores cuentos
El novenario
La mujer moderna y sus derechos
El hombre negro
Mis viajes por Europa ...
El hombre negro
La mujer jardinero
"Villa-María"
Dos amores
La pensión ideal
El Divorcio en España
El suicida asesinado
Los anticuarios
Hasta renacer
Peregrinaciones
Quiero vivir mi vida
La malcasada
Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin (1879-1954)

women's rights activist

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The diaries of Miles Franklin
My congenials
Joseph Furphy
Childhood at Brindabella
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
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
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
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