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- noun Plural form of
emancipation .
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In the summer of 2010, I had the great privilege of participating in a roundtable discussion in New York City, organized by the national nonprofit, Step Up Women's Network www.suwn.org and Bayer Healthcare to examine that most fundamental of female emancipations: reproductive freedom.
Jane D. Wurwand: Do More, and Do It Now Jane D. Wurwand 2011
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In the summer of 2010, I had the great privilege of participating in a roundtable discussion in New York City, organized by the national nonprofit, Step Up Women's Network www.suwn.org and Bayer Healthcare to examine that most fundamental of female emancipations: reproductive freedom.
Jane D. Wurwand: Do More, and Do It Now Jane D. Wurwand 2011
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They impress, they horrify, they break through the psychological shielding of readers to make people feel a passionate need to make things right -- even centuries after the various emancipations of African slaves, and abolitions of slavery in different nations.
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How many more emancipations, big and small, can we help achieve?
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Can we really be radical – can this whole writing-through-our-lives thing be meaningful beyond our own little personal emancipations – if that ‘we’ is a collectivity that is defined by privilege?
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The right to vote, a 20th-century conquest, was only one delayed step in a series of legal emancipations, which created a new legal personality for women.24
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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By 1820, South Carolina cut off all emancipations except by will, and only as a reward for meritorious service.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The right to vote, a 20th-century conquest, was only one delayed step in a series of legal emancipations, which created a new legal personality for women.24
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The right to vote, a 20th-century conquest, was only one delayed step in a series of legal emancipations, which created a new legal personality for women.24
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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By 1820, South Carolina cut off all emancipations except by will, and only as a reward for meritorious service.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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