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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Law Category:Sociology Affirmative action refers to steps taken to eliminate ...
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  • Rebecca Helferich Clarke (August 27, 1886 – October 13, 1979) was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Sociologists Ward, Lester Frank [[Image:Ward.gif|right|thumb|Lester Frank Ward]] Lester Frank Ward (June 18, 1841 – ...
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  • Asherah (Hebrew אשרה), also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing also in Akkadian sources as Ashratu, ...
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  • __NOTOC__ ==History as Providential== Unification thought sees history as a theater in which God works voluntarily constrained by self-imposed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Mead, Margaret Category:Public [[Image:Margaret Mead NYWTS.jpg|thumb|200 px|Margaret ...
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  • Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world cultures, a trickster is a figure who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys ...
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  • The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:1903sweatshopchicago.jpg|thumb|350 px|Photo taken ...
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  • Bessie "Queen Bess" Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was a famous African American aviator. She became well known not ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Social work Domestic violence (also domestic abuse) is physical, sexual, economic ...
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia ...
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  • to look after the baby at home and sew. The gender-role reversal extends to the servants, where the carriage-driving servants are female, while ...
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  • Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist and novelist of the Restoration period who was arguably the first woman ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciencesCategory:Anthropologists Montagu, Ashley Ashley Montagu (June 28 1905 - November 26, 1999), was an English ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Enid Mary Blyton (August 11, 1897 - November 28, 1968) was a popular and prolific British author of children's books ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues and domestic relations ...
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  • Category:Anthropology Category:Psychology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Politics and social sciences [[Image:Catlin ...
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  • Mary Henrietta Kingsley (October 13, 1862 – June 3, 1900) was an English writer and explorer whose writing on her travels and observations ...
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  • Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding discrimination from multiple sources. It identifies advantages and disadvantages ...
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  • Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television, ...
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  • Maria Isabella Boyd (May 4, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated ...
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  • Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 003.jpg|thumb|400 px|Pierre-Cécile Puvis ...
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  • The Gospel of the Hebrews is a lost Jewish Christian gospel known today only in several fragments and references in the writings of the Church ...
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  • The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale. All the other scales in traditional Western music ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = Smith College ...
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  • Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a prominent American suffragist, vocal advocate of gender equality, the wife of abolitionist ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Law [[File:William Hogarth - A Rake's Progress - Plate 1 - The Young Heir ...
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  • Identity politics refers to the idea that socially constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis for creating group ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals category:biography Patterson, Eleanor Medill Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson (November 7, 1881 ...
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  • Tansu Penbe Çiller, Her Excellency Prof. Dr. (May 24, 1946 - ) was Turkey's first female Prime Minister, from 1993 to 1995, and the third ...
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  • The Holy Spirit refers to the third person of the Trinity in Christianity. In Judaism the Holy Spirit refers to the life-giving breath or spirit ...
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  • Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an educational organization founded in India in 1937 that offers instruction by nuns based on teachings ...
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  • He Xiangu (meaning "Immortal Woman He") (Wade-Giles: "Ho Hsien-ku" ) is the only female deity among the Eight Immortals figures ...
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  • Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of ...
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  • Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative ...
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  • Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana, a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:-The Blackmail.png|thumb|250px|The harasser threatens the victim]] ...
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  • A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately castrated in order to perform specific social duties that were once ...
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  • The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to explain the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit described in ...
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  • Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE, known as Diana Rigg, (July 20, 1938 - September 10, 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her ...
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  • Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797) was a British intellectual, writer, philosopher, and early feminist. She wrote several ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria meaning father and arché meaning ...
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  • Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Acts-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive the gift of tongues (Acts 2)]] Montanism was an early Christian ...
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  • Katherine Johnson (born Creola Katherine Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020), also known as Katherine Goble, was an American mathematician ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Bates, Daisy Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – ...
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  • The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States which was active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and ...
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