Woman of the week:
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Woman of the week:
Helke Sander
Born 31 January 1937 in Berlin
German film director, author, actress and activist
70th Birthday on 31 January 2007
“If you think about things, you become radicalized” (Helke Sander in conversation with Renate Fischetti, Gespräch 47). Both politically and artistically, this pioneer of the German women’s movement and of filmmaking has always been far ahead of her time. “She began to examine social structures and political visions consistently from the perspective of women and children and has continued to follow this principle to the present time” (Politeia: HS Einführung). Sander’s challenging, often discomfiting themes, such as women’s “double burden,” the contradictions between political consciousness and personal action, and particularly the long-avoided story of the rapes that followed WW II, …
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Woman of the week:
Alva Myrdal
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Woman of the week:
Nabia Abbott
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Woman of the week:
Barbara Tuchman
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Woman of the week:
Pauline Strauss
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Woman of the week:
Lou Andreas-Salomé
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Woman of the week:
Hilde Benjamin
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