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- Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...[[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
5: ... Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...e with the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]]...
9: ...readnought]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
11: ...owever, such was the importance attached to being within the same movement as the Bolsheviks, the CP(... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...55]] to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
4: ..., mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
6: ...Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]].
8: ...d as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...minist]] and [[journalist]] and a spokeswoman for women's rights. She is the founder and original pub...
5: ...family split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Gl...
8: ...d in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ... publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]].
11: == Political Awakening and Activism == - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: ...|thumb|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
2: [[Image:Jane Austen (House in Chawton).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a...
3: ...tern canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to redu...
5: ...ed there two months later and was buried in the [[Winchester_Cathedral|cathedral]].
7: ...dicament of young, unmarried, upper-class English women in the early [[1800s]]. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...s, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological perspica...
5: ... attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...time that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
10: ...d to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
12: ...e of 61 in London of a [[kidney]] [[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ... such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was just as heavily influenced in turn.
10: ...ferent to the language of the [[Bologna]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major art...
12: ...vately. The unfortunate effect was that Artemisia was raped by Tassi. Even though Tassi initially pro...
14: ...sequently influenced the [[feminism|feminist]] view of Atermisia Gentileschi during the [[20th centur... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosop...
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ... made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor oth...
19: ...n present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ... 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ... themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually ...
8: ...imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...er to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...lowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes i... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
5: She was born in [[New York, New York|New York]]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduati...
7: ...ining the faculty in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until ...
11: ... dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.) - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ...vember 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a description of
6: ...eft England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.
8: ...an]]. An active member of [[London]] society, she was a member of the [[Bluestockings]] in her youth.
11: ...ta Ada, Countess of Lovelace'''. She is widely known in modern times simply as '''Ada Lovelace'''.
13: ... [[David Brewster|Sir David Brewster]], [[Charles Wheatstone]], [[Charles Dickens]] and [[Michael Far... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calcu...
3: ...ng mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...as discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark...
7: ...y as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]] compilers.
9: ...bler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy. - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ...]] physician and [[feminism|feminist]], the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
5: ...r to enter for the Licence of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
7: ...s she found to be incompatible with her principal work, and she soon resigned them.
9: ...ned to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of...
11: ...n to the medical profession, of which Dr Anderson was the indefatigable pioneer in [[England]], exten... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...competitive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked a...
6: ...s talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...iod, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... pop charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a...
12: ...virtually unchallenged, winning eight successive awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she la... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...servatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...er final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
7: ..., a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s championing of...
11: ...the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...oice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumo...
4: ...There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...ess of their early singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...ured more raw emotional performances and together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into ... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ... is a successful [[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|actress]].
4: ==Overview==
6: ... is readily seen almost a decade later in the songwriting, singing, and attitude of singers such as A...
10: ...s an older brother, Chad, and a [[twin]] brother, Wade.
12: ..."Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you."'' - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...ith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a photo by [[Robert Mapplethorpe]].]]
2: ...ese opposing influences have informed much of her work since.
4: ...ibuted, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini", and "Shoo...
6: ... with the flipside a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken piece about fugitive ...
8: ...the murky production contributed to its poor reviews. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ... for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one on the [[...
7: ...on involving the [[Baltimore Orioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, releas...
10: ... is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
13: .... During this time, Tori recorded the song "Happy Workers" for the [[Toys]] movie soundtrack. A remix...
16: ...e UK), "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission", which featured the vocal contribution of [[Trent Re... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
2: ...nie_and_Clyde.jpg|thumb|200px|Bonnie and Clyde clowning.]]
3: ...ssion]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...ublic enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B.I.]]
9: ...d, and Bonnie was wearing Thornton's wedding ring when she died.
11: ... they viewed as certain. She was fond of creative writing and the arts. Her poem "The Story of Bonnie... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: <div style="float:right;width:200px;margin-left:5px"><center>[[Image:AimeeS...
3: ...known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[...
7: ... difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...e of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local cle...
11: <div style="float:left;width:160px;margin-right:5px;text-align:center">[[I...
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