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I will scream to the world

Dukureh, Jaha, 1989 or 1990- author.

Publication Date

2025

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Books

Call Number

923.66651 DUK

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SD_ILS:785207

Last to eat, last to learn : my life in Afghanistan fighting to educate women

Durrani, Pashtana, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Books

Call Number

371.82209581 DUR

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SD_ILS:672897

Olive Morris

Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel), author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Books

Call Number

323 SAN

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SD_ILS:717901

The marriage list [DAISY talking book]

Quinn, Ella, author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Digital

Call Number

QUI GOT/ROM

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SD_ILS:702219

Zarifa : le combat d'une femme dans un monde d'hommes

Ghafari, Zarifa, author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Books

Call Number

305.409581 GHA

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SD_ILS:680563

The right to read : social justice, literacy, and the creation of Frontier College, the Alfred Fitzpatrick story

Morrison, James H., author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Books

Call Number

370.92 MOR

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SD_ILS:665291

Zarifa : a woman's battle in a man's world

Ghafari, Zarifa, author.

Publication Date

2022

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Books

Call Number

305.409581 GHA

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SD_ILS:665308

Fight like hell : the untold history of American labor

Kelly, Kim (Journalist), author.

Publication Date

2022

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Books

Call Number

331.880973 KEL

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SD_ILS:654472

Wan : a novel

Promislow, Dawn, author.

Publication Date

2022

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PRO

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SD_ILS:655601

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Nasrin [DVD video]

Kaufman, Jeff (Jeffrey), film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Publication Date

2021

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Call Number

323 NAS

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SD_ILS:608619

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The girls in the wild fig tree : how I fought to save myself, my sister, and thousands of girls worldwide

Leng'ete, Nice, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Books

Call Number

392.1 LEN

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SD_ILS:616274

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Flora! : a woman in a man's world

MacDonald, Flora, 1926-2015, author.

Publication Date

2021

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Call Number

920.72 MAC

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SD_ILS:646609

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Detention of persons -- Iraq -- Mosul.

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IS (Organization)

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Women and war -- Iraq.

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Women human rights workers -- Afghanistan -- Biography.

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Death row inmates -- Iran -- Biography.

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Fatehi, Nazanin, 1987- -- Imprisonment.

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Ghafari, Zarifa.

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Human rights workers -- Fiction.

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Human rights workers -- Gambia -- Biography.

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Human rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

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Iranian Canadian women -- Biography.

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Rape victims -- Iran -- Biography.

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Women -- Biography.

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Women human rights workers -- Canada -- Biography.

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Women human rights workers -- Iran.

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Women lawyers -- Iran.

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Women mayors -- Afghanistan -- Biography.

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Women prisoners -- Iran -- Biography.

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Women social reformers -- Afghanistan -- Biography.

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Abduction -- Nigeria.

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Abduction -- Uganda.

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Afghānistān -- Conditions sociales -- 21e siècle.

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Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions.

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Artists -- Fiction.

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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Biography.

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Birth intervals -- Drama.

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Black people -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

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Canada -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

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Canada Reads (2017) -- Nominee.

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Canadiens d'origine iranienne -- Biographies.

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Candidates (Concours de beauté) -- Canada -- Biographies.

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Carlson, Nellie.

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Case studies.

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Child marriage -- Gambia -- Case studies.

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Children of AIDS patients.

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Climatic changes -- Arctic regions.

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Clothing trade -- Corrupt practices.

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Clothing workers -- Economic conditions.

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Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Thailand.

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Commercial law.

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Condamnés à mort -- Iran -- Biographies.

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Cree women -- Canada -- Biography.

(1)

Defectors -- Korea (North) -- Biography.

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Durrani, Pashtana.

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Défenseurs des droits de l'homme -- Canada -- Biographies.

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Défenseuses des droits de l'homme -- Afghānistān -- Biographies.

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Ebadi, Shirin.

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Education -- Canada.

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Educators -- Canada -- Biography.

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Environmental protection -- Arctic regions.

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Environmentalists -- Canada -- Biography.

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Escapes -- Korea (North) -- History -- 21st century.

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Extinction (Biology) -- Drama.

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Extremists -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

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Fatehi, Nazanin, 1987- -- Emprisonnement.

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Feature films

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Feature films.

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Female genital mutilation -- Gambia -- Prevention -- Citizen participation.

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Female genital mutilation -- Gambia -- Prevention.

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Female genital mutilation -- Gambia.

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Female genital mutilation -- Kenya -- Case studies.

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Female genital mutilation -- Prevention.

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Feminism -- Juvenile literature.

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Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

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Feminists -- Pictorial works.

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Femmes -- Afghānistān -- Conditions sociales -- 21e siècle.

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Femmes -- Droits -- Afghānistān.

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Femmes politiques -- Afghānistān -- Biographies.

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Fertility, Human -- Drama.

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First Nations -- Legal status, laws, etc.

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First Nations activists -- Biography.

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First Nations women -- Biography.

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First Nations women -- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Fitzpatrick, Alfred, 1862-1936.

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Forced marriage -- Gambia -- Case studies.

(1)

Forced marriage -- Uganda.

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Frontier College -- History.

(1)

Gambia.

(1)

Gender Studies

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Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

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Girls -- Education -- Afghanistan -- 21st century.

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Great Britain -- History -- Regency, 1811-1820 -- Fiction.

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Gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.

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HIV-positive persons.

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Hawa Abdi, 1947-

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Historical fiction

(1)

Historical fiction.

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Human rights workers -- Africa.

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Human rights workers -- England -- London -- Drama.

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Human rights workers -- Juvenile literature.

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Human rights workers -- Korea (South) -- Biography.

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Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.

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Human rights workers.

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Human rights.

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IS (Organization) -- Fiction.

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Illustrated works.

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Immigrants -- Sweden -- Fiction.

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Indigenous authors.

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Inuit -- Canada -- Social conditions.

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Inuit women -- Canada -- Biography.

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Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997.

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Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-

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Islamic fundamentalism -- Nigeria.

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Islamic fundamentalism -- Somalia.

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Jamaicans -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

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Korea (North) -- History -- 1994-2011 -- Biography.

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Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1994-2011.

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Korea (South) -- Biography.

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Labor movement -- United States -- History.

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Labor unions -- United States -- History.

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Latin America.

(1)

Lawyers -- Iran -- Biography.

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Legislators -- Canada -- Biography.

(1)

Leng'ete, Nice.

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Literacy -- Canada.

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London (England) -- Drama

(1)

Los Angeles (Calif.)

(1)

Maasai (African people) -- Kenya -- Biography.

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Maasai (African people) -- Kenya -- Social life and customs.

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MacDonald, Flora, 1926-2015.

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Mairesses -- Afghānistān -- Biographies.

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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

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Manufacturing industries -- Social aspects.

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Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)

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Morris, Olive, 1952-1979 -- Juvenile literature.

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Muslim women -- Biography.

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Muslims -- Sweden -- Fiction.

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Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.

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Nobility -- England -- Fiction.

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Novels.

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Nyamayaro, Elizabeth -- Childhood and youth.

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Nyamayaro, Elizabeth -- Family.

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Nyamayaro, Elizabeth.

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Oral history -- Canada.

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Orphans.

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Park, Yeonmi, 1993-

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Photography of women.

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Physicians.

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Pineda, María.

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Political activists -- Africa.

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Political activists -- Gambia -- Biography.

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Political activists -- United States -- Biography.

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Politicians -- Canada -- Biography.

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Population -- Drama.

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Pregnant women -- England -- London -- Drama.

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Princesses -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography.

(1)

Prisonnières -- Iran -- Biographies.

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Privilege (Social psychology) -- Fiction.

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Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Canada.

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Protest movements -- Juvenile literature.

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Psychological fiction.

(1)

Race and Class Studies

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Radicalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Fiction.

(1)

Refugees -- Korea (North) -- Biography.

(1)

Revolutionaries -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

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Romance fiction.

(1)

Réformatrices sociales -- Afghānistān -- Biographies.

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Science fiction films

(1)

Scientists.

(1)

Sex discrimination against women -- Prevention -- Case studies.

(1)

Sex workers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.

(1)

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (2015) -- Nominee.

(1)

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (2022) -- Nominee.

(1)

Siblings -- Fiction.

(1)

Slavery -- Mauritania.

(1)

Social advocacy -- Case studies.

(1)

Social justice -- Canada.

(1)

Social justice -- Juvenile literature.

(1)

Social reformers -- Juvenile literature.

(1)

Social workers.

(1)

Somalia -- Biography.

(1)

Sotoudeh, Nasrin.

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South Africa -- Fiction.

(1)

Spy fiction.

(1)

Steinhauer, Kathleen.

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Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction.

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Ghafari, Zarifa, author.

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Krajeski, Jenna, author.

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Murad, Nadia, author.

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Nazanin, 1979-

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Smith, Hannah Lucinda, author.

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Bilheimer, Robert, director, producer.

(1)

Bralo, Tamara, author.

(1)

Bruckert, Chris, 1960- editor.

(1)

Butler-Witter, Elizabeth, author.

(1)

Caine, Michael

(1)

Canales, Verónica.

(1)

Carlson, Nellie.

(1)

Clooney, Amal, writer of foreword.

(1)

Clooney, Amal.

(1)

Close, Glenn, 1947- narrator.

(1)

Colman, Olivia, narrator.

(1)

Crouzet, Isabelle, translator.

(1)

Cuarón, Alfonso

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Curry, Ann, 1956- on-screen participant.

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Dukureh, Jaha, 1989 or 1990- author.

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Dukureh, Jaha, 1989 or 1990- commentator, on-screen participant.

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Durand, Aurélia, illustrator.

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Durisin, Elya M., 1979- editor.

(1)

Durrani, Pashtana, author.

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Ebadi, Shirin.

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Emery, Linzy, film director.

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Farrelly, Patrick (Journalist), film director, film producer.

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Gould, Cat, narrator.

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Goyette, Linda, 1955-

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Hawa Abdi, 1947-

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James, P. D.

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Judd, Ashley, writer of foreword.

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Kaufman, Jeff (Jeffrey), film director, screenwriter, film producer.

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Kelly, Kim (Journalist), author.

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Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.

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Leng'ete, Nice, author.

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Lichter, Ida, 1947- author.

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MacDonald, Flora, 1926-2015, author.

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Manero Jiménez, Laura.

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McClelland, Susan, author.

(1)

McClelland, Susan.

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Moaveni, Azadeh, 1976-

(1)

Moore, Julianne

(1)

Morrison, James H., author.

(1)

Murad, Nadia.

(1)

Nyamayaro, Elizabeth, author.

(1)

O'Callaghan, Kate, film director, film producer.

(1)

Okeowo, Alexis, author.

(1)

Ortega, Eve-Laure Moros film director.

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Owen, Clive

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Panahi, Jafar, on-screen participant.

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Park, Yeonmi, 1993- author.

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Promislow, Dawn, author.

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Quinn, Ella, author.

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Rich, KaeLyn, author.

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Robbins, Sarah J.

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Ross, Marcia S., film producer.

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Sasson, Jean P., author.

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Smith, Will, 1968- narrator.

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Sotoudeh, Nasrin, on-screen participant.

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Steinhauer, Kathleen.

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Stevens, Geoffrey, 1940- author.

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Syndicado (Firm), publisher.

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Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel), author.

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Tenneson, Joyce, 1945- photographer.

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V, 1953- author.

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Van der Meulen, Emily, 1977- editor.

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Virgil Films. publisher.

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Vollers, Maryanne, author.

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Watt-Cloutier, Sheila, author.

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Wessel, Elizabeth Clark, translator.

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Wintrebert, Joëlle, translator.

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Zander, Joakim, author.

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ʻIbādī, Shīrīn, author.

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ʻIbādī, Shīrīn, on-screen participant.

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