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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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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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Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA, 1845–7) is counted among the earliest organized efforts ...
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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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Pelletier, Madeleine (1874–1939)
Born into the working class, Madeleine Pelletier, the first French woman to receive a medical degree ...
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Popelin, Marie (1846–1913) and the Belgian League for Women's Rights
Marie Popelin, the first Belgian woman doctor of law, was the “founding mother” of Belgian feminism. ...
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