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Kathleen Thompson

Kathleen Thompson co-authored, with Andra Medea, the feminist class Against Rape in 1974. Since then she was written extensively on women issues and multicultural history, co-authoring the first narrative history of Black women in America, A Shining Thread of Hope, with historian Darlene Clark Hine in 1998 and three visual histories with Hilary Mac Austin.

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Adrienne Cecile Rich

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Florence Howe

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Ruth Westheimer

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Barbara Jill Walters

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Edith Gregor Halpert

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Aline Bernstein

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Amy Alcott

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Kathleen Thompson." (Viewed on March 19, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/thompson-kathleen>.