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The Women’s Cause
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Gisèle Halimi’s “La Cause des Femmes” highlights and advocates for women's rights and gender equality. As a prominent feminist, lawyer, and activist, Halimi aimed to shed light on the struggles women.

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Gisèle Halimi

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1973

Subjects:

Women, Gender, Abortion, Justice system, Death, Politics

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Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Gisèle Halimi during the launch rally of the “Front de Gauche."
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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…

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Rahel Levin Varnhagen

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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1799–1800

Subjects:

Marriage, Love, Salon, Women, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Letters
Engraving of woman seated in front of a tree at a table, facing the viewer with her left elbow resting on the table and her right hand holding a book in her lap.