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Also Known As Judith Sylvia Cohen
Born July 20, 1939 (age 85) • Chicago • Illinois
Notable Works “The Dinner Party”
Role In women’s rights movement

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Mirra Komarovsky
Russian-born sociologist
Pauli Murray
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American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Catharine A. MacKinnon
American feminist and law professor
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
American author and feminist
Abzug, Bella
Bella Abzug
American politician
Jeannette Rankin, 1918
Jeannette Rankin
American politician
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
American feminist, political activist, and editor
Martin, Anne Henrietta
Anne Henrietta Martin
American reformer and educator
Kate Millett
American feminist, author, and artist
bell hooks
bell hooks
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Perle Mesta, 1955.
Perle Mesta
American diplomat
Height, Dorothy
Dorothy Height
American civil and women’s rights activist
Jill Ker Conway
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Andrea Dworkin
American activist and author
Catherine East
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Barbara Christian
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Nancy Friday
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Annette Kolodny
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Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda
president of Malawi
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer

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