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Born April 7, 1930 • Santiago de Cuba • Cuba
Died June 18, 2007 (aged 77) • Havana • Cuba
Political Affiliation Cuban Communist Party
Notable Family Members spouse Raúl Castro
Role In women’s rights movement
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Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado
Cuban revolutionary and politician
Fidel Castro stands at a row of microphones, wearing a military jacket and looking at the camera during his 1959 visit to Washington, DC.
Fidel Castro
political leader of Cuba
Raúl Castro, 2013
Raúl Castro
head of state of Cuba
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda
president of Malawi
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Catharine A. MacKinnon
American feminist and law professor
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
American author and feminist
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago
American artist
Abzug, Bella
Bella Abzug
American politician
Jeannette Rankin, 1918
Jeannette Rankin
American politician
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Huda Sharawi
Egyptian feminist and nationalist
The voice of a movement
Gloria Steinem
American feminist, political activist, and editor
Martin, Anne Henrietta
Anne Henrietta Martin
American reformer and educator
Tawakkol Karman
Tawakkol Karman
Yemeni women’s rights activist
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Australian writer
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Kate Millett
American feminist, author, and artist
bell hooks
bell hooks
American scholar
Perle Mesta, 1955.
Perle Mesta
American diplomat
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Jill Ker Conway
American scholar