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So here I am: speeches by great women to empower and inspire.

Medium Text
ISBN 9781781318270
Class 808.85 RUS
Fict/Non Non Fiction
Authors Russell, Anna
Imprint White Lion Publishing: London: 2019
Value 18.99
Notes

Includes speeches by:

  • Elizabeth I, Queen of England
  • Fanny Wright, Social reformer
  • Maria Stewart, Journalist and abolitionist
  • Angelina Grimke, Political activist
  • Victoria Woodhull, Social reformer
  • Sarah Winnemucca, author and activist
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Suffragist
  • Mary Church Terrell, Civil rights activist and suffragist
  • Ida B Wells, Journalist and Civil rights activist
  • Countess Markievicz, Suffragette and politician
  • Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist
  • Emmeline Pankhurst, Suffragette
  • Nellie McClung, Author and Suffragist
  • Jutta Bojsen- Moller, Chairwoman of the Danish Women's Society (1984-1910)
  • Emma Goldman, Political activist
  • Nancy Astor, First female MP to Sit in the British House of Commons
  • Margaret Sanger, Womens rights activist and social reformer
  • Virginia Woolf, Author and journalist
  • Huda Sha'arawi, Women's rights activist
  • Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Political and womens rights activist
  • Eva Peron, First Lady of Argentina, Political figure and actress
  • Helen Keller, Political activist and author
  • Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (1933-45) and Diplomat
  • Shirley Chisholm, Member of the United States Congress (1969-83)
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice (1993 to present)
  • Sylvia Rivera, LGBTQ Activist
  • Simone Veil, French minister of Health
  • Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1966-77; 1980-84)
  • Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1979-90)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, Novelist
  • Barbara McClintock, Scientist and Cytogeneticist
  • Corazon C. Aquino, President of the Phillippines
  • Naomi Wolf, Author
  • Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Environmental Activist
  • Wilma Mankiller, Principal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985-95)
  • Toni Morrison, Novelist
  • Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States (1993-2001) and Politician
  • Wangari Maathai, Political Activist
  • J K Rowling, Novelist
  • Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany (2005 to present)
  • Sheryl Sandberg, Chief operating officer at Facebook (2008 to present)
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia (2006-18)
  • Asmaa Mahfouz, Political Activist
  • Manal al-Sharif, Women's rights activist
  • Julia Gillard, Prime minister of Australia (2010-13)
  • Malala Yousafzai, Women's education activist
  • Emma Watson, actor and activist
  • Jane Goodall, Ethologist and conservationist
  • Michelle Obama, First lady of the United States (2009-17) and Lawyer
  • Gloria Steinem, Journalist and Political activist
  • Beatrice Fihn, Executive director of the International Campaign to abolish nuclear weapons
  • Alicia Garza, Activist and writer
  • Maya Lin, Sculptor and Architect

 

Keywords
Black history     Black History collection     Feminism     Gender     Slavery     Social reform     Sojourner Truth     Speech     Womens history     Womens History Collection     Womens rights    
Copies
L03400 - Available, Located: Main Collection( ) /, Type: Ordinary


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