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Subject: Women's History X
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Britain, women's suffrage campaign
The British organized women's suffrage campaign began in the mid-1860s when a reform bill was under consideration ...
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Brundtland, Gro Harlem (b. 1939)
In addition to being a famous prime minister of Norway in the 1980s and 1990s and the director-general ...
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Olympe de Gouges, playwright, pamphleteer, opponent of black slavery, and advocate of women's rights, ...
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Grimké, Angelina (1805–1879) and Sarah (1792–1873)
Sarah and Angelina Grimké helped pioneer the anti-slavery and women's rights movement in the United ...
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Teresa Mañé i Miravet, an important Spanish lay teacher who became an anarchist, wrote most frequently ...
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Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825–1911)
A tireless activist on behalf of the causes of abolition, African American civil rights, women's rights, ...
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Hungary, women radicals, 1848–1849
It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of the 1848 Revolution for Hungary , which was at that ...
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Ijesha-Yoruba women's emancipation
The Ijesha society is located on the western flank of the present-day southwestern region of Nigeria, ...
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International Congress of Women at The Hague
Eight months after the start of World War I, almost 1,500 women – from neutral and “belligerent” nations ...
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International Women's Day (IWD), celebrated annually on March 8 in dozens of countries and on every continent, ...
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