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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
Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado
Cuban revolutionary and politician
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
political leader of Cuba
Raúl Castro
Raúl Castro
Cuban head of state
Pauli Murray
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Joyce Banda
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president of Malawi
Catharine A. MacKinnon
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Betty Friedan
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
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Judy Chicago
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Abzug, Bella
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Jeannette Rankin, 1918
Jeannette Rankin
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
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Anne Henrietta Martin
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Germaine Greer
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bell hooks
bell hooks
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Perle Mesta, 1955.
Perle Mesta
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Height, Dorothy
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