Monday, December 4, 2006
References
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Shirin Ebadi
Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. The Nobel Prize was for pioneering efforts in democracy and women and children's rights. She is the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to win the award. The announcement of the winner of the award winner came at a crucial time for Iran, giving the people hope and a renewed sense of pride in being Muslim, Iranian, and the event showed the world that the Middle East is not what they think.
Nadezhda Durova
Nadezhda Durova (1783-1886)was a women who became a highly decorated soldier. She was the first known female officer in the Russian army. 
Durova was raised in an army camp by her father's soldiers. In 1807 she deserted her husband and son and joined the Russian calvary and fought in the Napoleanic wars. Her bravery in battle caught the interest of the Tsar, and she was called to St Peterburg where she was awarded the Cross of St George. She published her memoirs, her journal during her military service, in 1836. She also published four novels concerning women's rights. Durova wore men's clothing for the rest of her life, and was buried with full military honors.
Eliška Krásnohorská
Eliska (1847-1926) was a feminist author in the now Czech Republic. Sha was the editor of the Woman's Journal since 1875. She has written at least 4 novels, a dozen librettos, an opera, children's books, and literary criticism and essays on social commentary of the time. She was known for her realism with spoon full of sugar and biting sarcasm.
Kathe Kollwitz
Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a prominent print artist whose work was a very real portrayal of human suffering. She lost her youngest son in World War I, which precipitated a severe and long lasting depression. Her work for 17 years after that was in memorium to him. Kollwitz was a socialist pacifist, and held a faculty position at the Academy of Arts, which she was forced to resign from by the Nazi party in 1933. She also was banned from showing her artwork. After evacuating Berlin in 1943 to Dresden, she later passed away in 1945, just before the end of World War II.
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