Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) was a French writer, a political activist and a feminist, deeply connected to the existentialist movement. She's known for The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression that laid the foundation for the contemporary feminist movement.
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Liliana Segre is an Italian activist who was born in 1930 in Milan. She is mostly known for having survived the Holocaust as she...
Türkan Saylan (1935 – 2009) was born in Istanbul and is one of the first female dermatologists in Turkey. Saylan fought against leprosy for...
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian and political prisoner. Being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, he helped...