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Julia Carpenter
Nov 03, 2016
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We, the Latin American women, shall have to do the next stage of battle for women. — Bertha Lutz

(image via Library of Congress)

She was a zoologist, a writer and *also* a pioneering leader of the Brazilian women’s movement that rocked the country at the turn of the century. Oh, and also, even after all that, Bertha led the activism that secured women's i…

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