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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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Barbara Labuda is one of the most outspoken second wave feminist voices in Polish politics. Known for ...
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Mujeres Libres (Free Women) was an anarchist organization dedicated to the education and greater participation ...
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Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858–1928), Christabel (1880–1958), and Sylvia (1882–1960)
The Pankhurst women, suffragettes and social reformers, are the most important feminist family in British ...
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Qiu Jin is the best-known woman revolutionary of the late Qing period in China. The last several decades ...
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Sanger, Margaret (1879–1966) and the American birth control movement
Margaret Sanger was an advocate and organizer of the American birth control movement and founder of the ...
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The first wave of feminism in the US was an outgrowth of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement, ...
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After the Russian Revolution in 1905 , many liberal women – especially those who had attended universities ...
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Women's movement, Greece, formation of
After a six-year war of independence from Ottoman Occupation, Greek independence was secured in 1827. ...
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