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In his autobiography, American on Purpose, he identifies himself as an autodidact—although a dilettante one (see the article on Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea). Penn Jillette, a member of the comedy and magic duo Penn & Teller, declared both he and his partner Teller to be autodidacts in an episode of their television series, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.
Maria Berenice Dias: Progressive Brazilian judge and the first woman to take the bench in her home Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Marshall Berman: American political scientist and Marxist humanist. Leonard Bernstein: American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in ...
Some Living American Women Artists, also referred to as Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper, is a collage by American artist Mary Beth Edelson [1] created during the second wave feminist movement. [2] The central portion is an image based on Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century mural Last Supper. Edelson replaced the faces of Christ's ...
Orator, organizer of the first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of the Woman's Journal, and first recorded American woman to retain her surname after marriage [25] 1800–1874: Emily Howard Stowe: Canada: 1831: 1903: Physician, advocate for women's inclusion in the medical professional community, founder of the Canadian Women's ...
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, Susan Griffin (1979) Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (1979) Women and Household Labor, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, ed. (1979) "35% of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized", Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization (late 1970s) [368]
Matilde Hidalgo (1889–1974) – physician, poet, and activist who was the first woman in Latin America to exercise her constitutional right to vote in a national election; Zoila Ugarte de Landívar (1864–1969) – writer, journalist, librarian and suffragist
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...
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