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Women's and Gender Studies

Women in History

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Susan Brownell Anthony 1820-1906	Mary Kay Ash 1915-2001	Ada Byron (Lady Lovelace) 1815-1851	Linda Chavez-Thompson 1944 -
Shirley Chisholm 1924 -	Anna Comnena 1083-1153	Ellen Smith Craft 1826-1891	Angela Y. Davis 1944 -
Celine Dion	Amelia Earhart 1897-1937	Anne Frank 1929-1945	Fannie Lou Hamer 1917-1977
Clara Haskil 1895-1960	Laura S. Haviland 1808-1898	Bernadine Healy 1944 -	Mae Jemison 1956 -
Mary Harris (Mother) Jones 1831-1931	Billie Jean King 1943 -	Aung San Suu Kyi 1945 -	Wilma P. Mankiller 1945 -
Dorothy Parker 1893-1967	Lucy Parsons 1853-1942	Harriet Quimby 1875-1912	Janet Reno 1938 -
Ann Richards 1933 -	Sally Ride 1951 -	Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962	Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994
Sappho circa 630 BC	Nina Simone 1933 - 2003	Bessie Smith 1894-1937	Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Margaret Thatcher 1925 -	Harriet Tubman 1820-1913	Madame C.J. Walker 1867-1919	Ida B. Wells-Bernett 1862-1931
Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784	Oprah Winfrey 1954 -	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1921 -	Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1914-1956