Captures the experiences of women and the roles they have played throughout world history. (1,250+ entries)
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Afghanistan
A landlocked Islamic republic in South Asia, Afghanistan shares borders with the nation‐states of Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and China.
African National Congress Women's League
The African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL ) traces it origins to women's resistance to pass laws in the Orange Free State in 1913 .
Aging
Any overview of the theme of aging must be, at best, very partial. The history of aging and old age is still in its early stages and is far from being explored or understood in
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Amazons
In ancient Greek mythology, the Amazons were a people of warrior women living on the borders of the world.
Anarchism
Anarchism is a theory and a practice aimed at creating a society free of hierarchy and structured relations of domination and subordination.
Androgyny
Stemming from the Greek words for “male” and “female,” the term “androgyny” is commonly designated as the union of sexes in one individual or a personality with a balance of
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Maya Angelou
(b. 1928 ), critically acclaimed autobiographer , playwright , poet, and director .
Elizabeth Anscombe
(1919 -- 2001 ), English philosopher . Gertrude Elizabeth Mary Anscombe was the daughter of Gertrude Elizabeth Anscombe and Alan
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Antigone
In ancient Greek mythology, Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta . The Athenian tragic playwright Sophocles (c. 496 -- 406 ) established the key features of
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MyWire Knowledge
῾A᾽ isha
(c. 614 -- 678 ), the third and most controversial wife of the prophet Muhammad .
Oyinkan Abayomi
(née Ajasa, 1897 -- 1990 ), founder of the Nigerian Women's Party and advocate of woman suffrage.
María Abella de Ramírez
(1863 -- 1925 ), the first notable feminist and freethinker in Argentina. Born in the province of San José, Uruguay, María Abella de Ramírez lived most of her adult
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Abolition and Anti-Slavery Movement
Women played a significant part in the international campaign against the use of African slave labor in the New World, a cause humanitarians had urged since the eighteenth century.
Liz Abrahams
(b. 1925 ), South African activist and union organizer . Elizabeth Adrian Abrahams , known
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Annette Ackroyd
(1842 -- 1929 ), British educator in India.
