This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, listed by feminist ideology. Feminists redirects here. ...

Early pioneers

• Eleanor of Aquitaine 12th century: believed in women's superiority over men^{[citation needed]}
• Christine de Pizan (1365–1430)
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex.
• Marie Dentière - (c. 1495 – 1561)- Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women.
• Jane Anger author of Her Protection for Women published 1589 in London.
• Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), Queen
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the new world
• Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first female physician in Germany
• Thomas Paine (1737–1809), American Founding Father and revolutionary [1].
• Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), Philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment [2]
• Abigail Adams (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States
• Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution.
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist
• Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
• Catharine Beecher (1800–1878), American educator, author
• George Sand (1804–1876), French Novelist
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
• Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English thinker [3].
• Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), Activist, writer, thinker, pioneer and founder of the "Feminist Movement" in Spain
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) Communist writer and thinker. Wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
• Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician ever.
• Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher and theologian.
• Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897) English activist and writer
• Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first female physician in the U.S.A.
• Anna Bayerová (1853–1924), second Czech female physician
• Celia Sánchez (1920–1980) - participant in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution.

Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor of Aquitaine (or Aliénor), Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess of Poitou (1122[1] – April 1, 1204) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the High Middle Ages. ... Christine de Pizan instructing her son. ... Cornelius Agrippa, as portrayed in Libri tres de occulta philosophia. ... Marie Dentière, (c. ... Jane Anger Jane Anger is the author of Her Protection for Women a pamphlet published in London in 1589, of which only one original copy survives. ... Christina (Kristina) (December 8, 1626 – April 19, 1689), later known as Maria Christina Alexandra and sometimes Count Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. ... Sor Juana (12 November 1651 (or 1648, according to some biographers) – 17 April 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez, was a self taught Mexican scholar, nun, and writer of the... Dorothea Christiane Erxleben née Leporin (November 13, 1715-June 13, 1762) was the first female medical doctor in Germany[1]. Erxleben was instructed in medicine by her father from an early age[2]. The Italian scientist Laura Bassis university professorship inspired Erxleben to fight for her right to... For other uses, see Doctor. ... For other persons of the same name, see Thomas Paine (disambiguation). ... “Condorcet” redirects here. ... Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the first Second Lady of the United States and the second First Lady of the United States though the terms were not coined until... First Lady Laura Bush and former first ladies (from left to right) Rosalynn Carter, Sen. ... Francisco de Miranda Sebastián Francisco de Miranda Rodríguez (commonly known as Francisco de Miranda March 28, 1750 – July 14, 1816) was a South American revolutionary whose own plan for the independence of the Spanish American colonies failed, but who is regarded as a forerunner of Simón Bol... The term Latin American revolutions refers to the various revolutions that took place during the early 1800s that resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries in the Latin American region. ... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... Mary Wollstonecraft (circa 1797) by John Opie Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. ... Mary Wollstonecraft. ... Jane Gomeldon (born Jane Middleton) (?–1779) was an English writer, poet and adventurer. ... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ... Catherine Beecher Catherine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878), the daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister to Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a very active supporter for the cause of womens education. ... George Sand sewing, portrait by Eugène Delacroix (1838). ... John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. ... Harriet Taylor Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 – 1858), married J. S. Mill in 1851 after a twenty one year friendship (during most of which Harriet was married to John Taylor). ... Concepción Arenal (born in El Ferrol in the 19th Century) excelled in literature, and was the first woman ever to go to university in Spain. ... The feminist movement (also known as the Womens Movement or Womens Liberation) is a series of campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights (including abortion), domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. ... Engels redirects here. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan is a historical materialist treatise written by Friedrich Engels and published in 1884. ... Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was born on February 9, 1854 in Sappemeer, as the eighth child of a Jewish doctors family. ... Táhirih (Arabic: ‎ The Pure One) or Qurratul-`Ayn (Arabic: ‎ Comfort of the Eyes) are both titles of Fátimih Baraghání (b. ... Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814-97) was a pioneer in the movement for the higher education of women and the development of the Froebelian principles in England. ... Blackwell was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp. ... For other uses, see Doctor. ... Anna Bayerová (1853-1924) was the second Czech female medical doctor. ... Celia Sánchez, veneered by the participants of the Cuban Revolution. ...

First-wave feminists

For main article, see: First-wave feminism First-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the United Kingdom and the United States. ...

• Jane Addams (1860–1935)
• Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German university lecturer
• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette
• Mary Astell (c. 1666 – 1731), author of "Serious Proposal to the Ladies"
• Hubertine Auclert
• Rachel Foster Avery
• Marie Bashkirtseff
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Barbara Bodichon
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Fredrika Bremer
• Ursula Mellor Bright^[1]
• Antoinette Brown
• Katherine Burdekin
• Katharine Bushnell
• Lucy Burns
• Frances Jennings Casement
• Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's rights activist
• Alice Clark
• Francis Power Cobbe
• Frederick Douglass [4]
• Marguerite Durand
• Millicent Garrett Fawcett
• Margaret Fuller
• Matilda Joslyn Gage
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Emma Goldman
• Olympe de Gouges
• Sarah Grimke
• Angelina Emily Grimke
• Marianne Hainisch
• Jane Ellen Harrison - British scholar
• Julia Ward Howe
• Marie Juchacz - German social reformer, feminist and Member of the Reichstag
• Alexandra Kollontai
• Louisa Lawson - Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
• Mary Lee - South Australian suffragist
• Mary Livermore
• Mina Loy
• Margaret Bright Lucas^[2]
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Agnes Macphail - first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons; founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada
• Priscilla Bright Mclaren
• Nellie McClung
• Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871-1880. Considered women's labor of comparable worth.
• Else Mayer
• Rosa Mayreder
• Lucretia Mott
• Anna Maria Mozzoni
• Katti Anker Møller - Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
• Clarina I. H. Nichols
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Sylvia Pankhurst
• Alice Paul
• Marion Phillips
• Ernestine Rose
• Margaret Sanger
• Séverine
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Rose Scott
• Kate Sheppard
• Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
• Anna Garlin Spencer
• Lucy Stone
• Marie Stopes
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Victoria Woodhull
• Virginia Woolf
• Frances Wright
• Clara Zetkin

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Rachel Foster Avery was a corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the late 19th century. ... Marie Bashkirtseff (November 11, 1858 - October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor Marie Bashkirtseff Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. ... La Beauvoir redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). ... Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (8 April 1827 - 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist, artist, and activist for womens rights. ... Blackwell was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp. ... Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (August 17, 1801 - December 31, 1865) was a Swedish writer and feminist activist. ... Ursula Mellor Bright, suffrage campaigner, was born on 5 July 1835. ... Antoinette Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell (May 20, 1825 - November 5, 1921), was the first female to be ordained as a minister in the United States, when she was called to be the pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler, New York in 1853. ... Katherine Burdekin (born Katherine Penelope Cade) (1896-1963) was a British novelist. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879-December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and womens rights advocate. ... Frances Jennings Casement (1840-1928) was a suffragette and voting advocate of Painesville, Ohio. ... Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was a womans suffrage leader. ... Cover of 2005 biography by Lori Williamson Frances Power Cobbe (1822 – 1904), was a British writer who is known today primarily as a pioneer animal rights activist. ... Frederick Douglass, ca. ... Marguerite Durand, born January 24, 1864 – died March 16, 1936, was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. ... Millicent Fawcett Dame Millicent Fawcett DBE (June 11, 1847 – August 5, 1929) was a British suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette, who were usually militantly violent) and an early feminist. ... Margaret Fuller, by Marchioness Ossoli. ... Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was born with a hatred of oppression. Though born in Cicero, New York, Gage maintained residence in Fayetteville, New York for the majority of her life. ... Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American poet, non-fiction writer, short story writer, novelist, lecturer, and social reformer. ... Theory Issues Culture By region Lists Anarchism Portal Politics Portal ·        Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) aka Red Emma, was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. ... Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze; December 31, 1745, – November 3, 1793) was a playwright and journalist whose feminist writings reached a large audience. ... Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 - December 23, 1873) was born in South Carolina, the daughter of a plantation owner who was a firm believer in both slavery and the subordinate status of women. ... Angelina Emily Grimk (1805–1879) was an abolitionist and suffragette. ... Marianne Hainisch (born Perger) (* 25 March 1839 Baden bei Wien, † 5 May 1936 Vienna) was the founder and leader of the Austrian womens movement. ... Jane Ellen Harrison (September 9, 1850–April 5, 1928) was a ground-breaking English classical scholar and feminist. ... Julia Ward Howe Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. ... Postage stamp from the Women in German history series Marie Juchacz (born 15 March 1879 in Landsberg an der Warthe; died 28 January 1956 in Düsseldorf; née Gohlke) was a German social reformer, social democrat and feminist. ... Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й — born Domontovich, Домонто́вич) (March 31 [O.S. March 19] 1872 - March 9, 1952) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. ... --210. ... Mary Lee Mary Lee (née Walsh) (February 14, 1821 - September 18, 1909) was an Irish-Australian suffragist and social reformer in South Australia. ... Mary Livermore, née Mary Ashton Rice, (December 19, 1820 - May 23, 1905) was an American journalist and advocate of womens rights. ... Image:Loy-Haweis1904. ... Margaret Bright Lucas (1818–1890) was a temperance activist and suffragist. ... Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża Luksemburg) was a Jewish Polish-born Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. ... Agnes Campbell Macphail (March 24, 1890 — February 13, 1954) was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. ... Type Lower House Speaker Peter Milliken, Liberal since January 29, 2001 Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Peter Van Loan, Conservative since January 4, 2007 Opposition House Leader Ralph Goodale, Liberal since January 23, 2006 Members 308 Political groups Conservative Party Liberal Party Bloc Québécois... The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) is an association of groups operating under the Elizabeth Fry Society banner. ... Nellie McClung from The National Archives of Canada Nellie McClung, (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. ... Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. ... Else Mayer (1891-1962) was a German nun and womens liberation activist during the period of the First-wave feminism. ... Rosa Mayreder (30 November 1858, Vienna - 19 January 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist. ... Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of womens rights. ... Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837 - 1920) was an Italian feminist and a key figure in the Italian Womens suffrage movement and is known as the founder of the Womens movement in Italy. ... Katti Anker Møller at the end of the 19th century Katti Anker Møller (1868-1945) was a Norwegian feminist, childrens rights advocate, and a pioneer of reproductive rights. ... Clarina Irene Howard Nichols (January 25, 1810 – January 11, 1885) was a journalist, lobbyist and public speaker involved in all three of the major reform movements of the mid-19th century: temperance, abolition, and the womens movement that emerged largely out of the ranks of the first two. ... Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. ... Sylvia Pankhurst Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (May 5, 1882 - September 27, 1960) was a campaigner in the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom, and a prominent left communist. ... Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. ... Marion Phillips (1881-1932) was a Labour politician and Member of Parliament in Britain. ... Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810-August 4, 1892) was a Polish-born Individualist Feminist, Abolitionist, Freethinker, atheist, and spoke out freely against bigotry and prejudice. ... Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). ... Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, born April 27, 1855 – died April 24, 1929, was a French socialist, journalist, and feminist best known under the name Séverine. ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902), was an American social activist and leading figure of the early womans movement . ... Rose Scott (8 October 1847 – 20 April 1925) was an Australian womens rights activist who protested for womens and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century . ... Katherine Wilson Sheppard (10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of New Zealands womens suffrage movement, and is the countrys most famous suffragette. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ethel Smyth. ... Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1931) was an American educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister. ... Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 19, 1893) was a prominent American suffragist. ... Marie Stopes (October 15, 1880 - October 2, 1958) was a Scottish author, campaigner for womens rights and pioneer in the field of family planning. ... Sojourner Truth (c. ... Harriet Tubman (c. ... Victoria Woodhull Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was one of the early leaders of the American womans suffragette movement in the 19th century. ... For the American writer, see Virginia Euwer Wolff. ... Frances Wright (1795-1852) was a lecturer who grew up in London and toured the United States from 1818 to 1820. ... Stamp Clara Zetkin, maiden name Eissner (5 July 1857 - 20 June 1933) was an influential socialist German politician and a fighter for womens rights. ...

Second-wave feminists

For main article, see: Second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1980s. ...

• Bella Abzug
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Ti-Grace Atkinson
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Lorraine Bethel
• Susan Brownmiller
• Charlotte Bunch
• Oprah Winfrey
• Thérèse Casgrain
• Sandra Coney
• Mary Daly
• Sonja Davies
• Angela Davis
• Heather Dean
• Carol Downer
• Andrea Dworkin
• Susan Faludi
• Melissa Farley
• Shulamith Firestone
• Clara Fraser
• Jo Freeman
• Marilyn French
• Betty Friedan
• Carol Gilligan
• Germaine Greer
• Carol Hanisch
• Donna Haraway
• Bertha Harris
• Nancy Hartsock
• Dorothy Hewett
• Anne Guerry Hoddersen
• bell hooks
• Sheila Jeffreys
• Anne Koedt
• Bonnie Kreps
• Peggy Kornegger
• Jacqueline Livingston
• Catharine MacKinnon
• Gloria Martin
• Kate Millett
• Robin Morgan
• Ann Oakley
• Bernice Johnson Reagon
• Erin Pizzey
• Janice Raymond
• Helen Reddy
• Sheila Rowbotham
• Joanna Russ
• Diana E. H. Russell
• Kathie Sarachild
• Alice Schwarzer
• Lynne Segal
• Kato Shidzue (Japan)
• Ann Simonton
• Gloria Steinem
• Michele Wallace
• Beatrix Campbell
• Liz Kelly
• Ailbhe Smyth
• Renate Klein
• Dale Spender
• Cynthia Enloe
• Betsy Warrior
• Hilary Wainwright
• Melba Windoffer
• Christine Delphy
• Brett Clements

Bella Abzug Bella Savitsky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998) was a well-known American political figure and a leader of the womens movement. ... Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 - May 15, 2004) was a Chicana lesbian feminist writer, poet, scholar and activist. ... Ti-Grace Atkinson (born Grace Atkinson) is an American feminist author. ... La Beauvoir redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Susan Brownmiller (b. ... Charlotte Brunch at Beijing +5 Charlotte Bunch (b. ... Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ... Marie Thérèse Forget Casgrain, CC, OBE, LL.D (July 10, 1896 – November 2, 1981) was a feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. ... Sandra Coney is a New Zealand feminist and womens health campaigner. ... Mary Daly (born October 16, 1928 in Schenectady, New York) is a radical feminist theologian. ... Marching On is the second volume of Sonja Davies autobiography Sonja Davies, ONZ (November 11, 1923 – 12 June 2005) was a New Zealand trade unionist, peace campaigner, and Member of Parliament. ... Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... Carol Downer is a feminist from the United States. ... Andrea Dworkin speaking to a federal commission on pornography in New York in January 1986 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women. ... Susan C. Faludi (born April 18, 1959 ) ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two well-known books and won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc. ... Dr. Melissa Farley is a psychologist and second wave feminist studying the effects of global sex trafficking on prostitutes. ... Shulamith Firestone (1945, also called Shulie Firestone) was a founding member of the Chicago Womens Liberation Union in 1969, and was a member of Redstockings and the New York Radical Feminists. ... Clara Fraser (March 12, 1923 – February 24, 1998) was a radical organizer, a women’s liberation pioneer, and the initiator of revolutionary socialist feminism, a political tendency embodied in two organizations she co-founded and led, the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. ... Jo Freeman (a. ... Marilyn French (born November 21, 1929) is an American author known for her feminist novels and non-fiction. ... Betty Friedan, 1960 Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the Second Wave of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique. ... Carol Gilligan (1936– ) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. ... Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian-born writer, broadcaster and retired academic, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. ... Carol Hanisch is a radical feminist and was an important member of New York Radical Women and Redstockings. ... Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. ... Bertha Harris (1939, Fayetteville, North Carolina) is an American born openly lesbian novelist. ... Nancy Hartsock is a feminist philosopher. ... Dorothy Coade Hewett, (May 21, 1923 – August 25, 2002), was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright. ... Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks, is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist. ... Sheila Jeffreys (born 1948) is a well-known and controversial radical lesbian feminist. ... Peggy Kornegger is an influential American exponent of anarcha-feminism. ... Jacqueline Livingston is a photographer known for her work exploring womans role as artist and person, and investigating the boundaries of intimacy and propriety. ... Catherine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October 1946) is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist. ... Time magazine, August 31, 1970 Kate Millett (born September 14, 1934) is an American feminist writer and activist. ... Robin Morgan (born January 3, 1941) is an American radical feminist activist, writer, and editor of Sisterhood is Powerful and . ... Ann Oakley is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist and writer. ... Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (born October 4, 1942) is a singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, who founded the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973. ... Erin Pizzey (born February 19, 1939 in China, daughter of a diplomat) became internationally famous for having started the first Womens Refuge (called womens shelter in the US) in the modern world during the 1971. ... Janice G. Raymond is professor emerita of womens studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. ... 2003 Greatest Hits compilation Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian pop singer and actor. ... Sheila Rowbotham (born in 1943 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an British socialist feminist theorist and writer. ... Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937), American writer and feminist, is the author of a number of works of Science Fiction (among other types of writing), including The Female Man, an aclaimed SF novel and pioneering meditation on how differing societies might produce very different versions of the same person... Diana E. H. Russell is a radical feminist writer and activist. ... Alice Schwarzer Alice Schwarzer (born December 3, 1942 in Wuppertal) is arguably the most prominent contemporary German feminist. ... Katō Shidzue Katō Shidzue (加藤 シヅエ Katō Shidzue, March 2, 1897 - December 22, 2001) was a 20th Century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan. ... Ann J. Simonton is a writer, lecturer and feminist, media activist. ... Gloria Steinem at news conference, Womens Action Alliance, January 12, 1972 Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist icon, journalist and womens rights advocate. ... Michele Wallace is an African American feminist author. ... Dale Spender, or dale spender (born 1943) is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. ... Cynthia H. Enloe is a pioneer in the feminist study of international relations. ... Hilary Wainwright (born 1949) is a British socialist and feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper magazine. ...

Third-wave feminists

For main article, see Third-wave feminism Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study beginning in the early 1990s. ...

• Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Margaret Atwood
• Jennifer Baumgardner
• Melissa Benn
• Giannina Braschi
• Carrie Brownstein
• Judith Butler
• Lili Taylor
• Susie Bright
• Margaret Cho
• Victor Colussi
• Johanna Fateman
• Ani DiFranco
• Martha Davis
• Donna Dresch
• Corin Tucker
• Betty Dodson
• Maureen Dowd
• Emily Haines
• Kathleen Hanna
• Donna Haraway
• bell hooks
• Miranda July
• Marcelle Karp
• Jean Kilbourne
• Rosie Malek-Yonan (activist and author of The Crimson Field )
• Inga Muscio
• Kathy Najimy
• Sandra Oh
• Alicia Ostriker
• Lisa Palac
• Liz Phair
• Maria Raha
• JD Samson
• Gudrun Schyman
• Joan Smith
• Annie Sprinkle
• Debbie Stoller
• Nadine Strossen
• Robin Tunney
• Tobi Vail
• Rebecca Walker
• Natasha Walter
• Kaia Wilson
• Naomi Wolf
• Molly Yard
• Cheryl Seelholf (Creator of Gentle Spirit Magazine)

See also: Third-wave feminism Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 - May 15, 2004) was a Chicana lesbian feminist writer, poet, scholar and activist. ... Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ... Jennifer Baumgardner is an author and feminist activist. ... Melissa Anne Benn (born 21 February 1957) is a British journalist and writer. ... Cutting-edge poet and novelist Giannina Braschi (b. ... Carrie Brownstein (born September 27, 1974), is an American musician and actress. ... Image:J Butler. ... Lili Anne Taylor (born February 20, 1967) is an American theater, film and television actress. ... Susie Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. ... Margaret Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer and actress. ... Johanna Fateman is a writer, zine editor and musician who performs with the feminist post-punk rock band Le Tigre. ... Ani DiFranco (IPA: ) (born Angela Maria Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. ... The Motels were a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles area best known for Only the Lonely and Suddenly, Last Summer, both of which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively. ... Dresch (far right) with the Screaming Trees. ... Corin Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. ... Betty Dodson, Ph. ... Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times. ... Emily Haines (born in New Delhi, India) is a member of the bands Metric and Broken Social Scene. ... Kathleen Hanna (b. ... Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. ... Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks, is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist. ... Miranda July Miranda July (born February 1, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, and film director. ... Marcelle Karp, a. ... Jean Kilbourne Jean Kilbourne, Ed. ... // Born on the fourth of July, in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan ( رزی ملک یونان ) is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and activist. ... Inga Muscio is a third wave feminist writer and public speaker. ... Kathy Ann Najimy (born February 6, 1957) is an American actress, best known as Olive Massery on the television series Veronicas Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill. ... Sandra Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and a three-time Emmy Award-nominated Canadian actress. ... Alicia Ostriker is an American poet and scholar born in 1937, and is considered a prominent voice in Jewish feminist poetry. ... Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Maria Raha (born 1973) is an American author and rock journalist from Long Island, New York, specializing in the American rock underground. ... JD Samson (born August 4, 1978, Cleveland, Ohio) is the stage name of Jocelyn Samson, a member of the feminist electropunk band Le Tigre. ... Gudrun Schyman Gudrun Schyman (born June 9, 1948) is a Swedish politician. ... Joan Smith (born 1953 in London) is an United Kingdom novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committeee in the English section of International PEN. Smith read Latin at the University of Reading in the early 1970s. ... Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg July 23, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, and sex film producer. ... Debbie Stoller is an author, publisher and textile artist whose work includes knitting and crochet. ... A portait of Nadine Strossen Professor Nadine Strossen is president of the American Civil Liberties Union. ... Robin Tunney (born on June 19, 1972) is an American actress of stage, television and film. ... Tobi Vail (born July 20, 1969) is a musician, influential DIY punk zinester, and feminist theorist from Olympia, Washington. ... Rebecca Walker is an American feminist and writer. ... Natasha Walter is a British feminist columnist and journalist. ... Kaia Wilson is a Portland, Oregon singer and guitarist. ... Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer. ... Mary Alexander Molly Yard (July 6, 1912 - September 21, 2005) was a dynamic American feminist of the late 20th century. ... Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study beginning in the early 1990s. ...

Radical feminists

For main article, see Radical feminism Radical feminism is a branch of feminism that views womens oppression (which radical feminists refer to as patriarchy) as a basic system of power upon which human relationships in society are arranged. ...

• Redstockings
• Susan Brownmiller
• Nikki Craft (Activist from 1970 to 2006 and beyond who does not identify as 2nd or 3rd wave feminist.)
• Mary Daly
• Andrea Dworkin
• Melissa Farley
• Shulamith Firestone
• Genevieve Shanahan
• Carol Keyes
• Catharine MacKinnon
• Robin Morgan
• Valerie Solanas
• Keshia Gordan
• Chelsie Vandecoevering
• Rote Zora

Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Womens Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist group that was most active during the 1970s. ... Susan Brownmiller (b. ... Nikki Craft. ... Mary Daly (born October 16, 1928 in Schenectady, New York) is a radical feminist theologian. ... Andrea Dworkin speaking to a federal commission on pornography in New York in January 1986 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women. ... Dr. Melissa Farley is a psychologist and second wave feminist studying the effects of global sex trafficking on prostitutes. ... Shulamith Firestone (1945, also called Shulie Firestone) was a founding member of the Chicago Womens Liberation Union in 1969, and was a member of Redstockings and the New York Radical Feminists. ... Catherine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October 1946) is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist. ... Robin Morgan (born January 3, 1941) is an American radical feminist activist, writer, and editor of Sisterhood is Powerful and . ... Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 26, 1988) was an American radical feminist writer who struggled to be recognized for her writing but became famous for shooting the artist Andy Warhol in 1968. ... Rote Zora (English: Red Zora, from the book Die Rote Zora und ihre Bande by Kurt Held) was a militant feminist organization in West Germany that stood against patriarchy, biotechnology, and nuclear power, among other things. ...

Ecofeminists

For main article, see Ecofeminism Ecofeminism is a minor social and political movement which unites environmentalism and feminism[1], with some currents linking deep ecology and feminism. ...

• Carol J. Adams
• Helene Aylon
• Judi Bari
• Bernadette Cozart
• Mary Daly
• Françoise d'Eaubonne
• Mary Rose de Valladares
• Lois Marie Gibbs
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Susan Griffin
• Monica Sjoo
• Petra Kelly
• Anna Kingsford
• Winona LaDuke
• Wangari Maathai
• Maria Mies
• Vandana Shiva
• Charlene Spretnak
• Starhawk

Carol J. Adams calls herself a feminist vegetarian author. ... Helene Aylon is an American artist and ecofeminist known for taking Hebrew and English versions of the Torah and turning them into installation sculpture. ... Judi Bari, March 3, 1995, by Xiang Xing Zhou, San Francisco Daily Journal. ... Bernadette Cozart is a professional gardener for the Department of Parks and Recreation of New York City and an ecofeminist who founded the Greening of Harlem Coalition in 1989 to help people to regenerate and take responsibility for their own neighbourhoods, transform rundown vacant lots in Harlem into flower gardens... Mary Daly (born October 16, 1928 in Schenectady, New York) is a radical feminist theologian. ... Françoise dEaubonne (March 12, 1920 in Paris - August 3, 2005 in Paris), French feminist, introduced the term ecofeminism (écologie-féminisme, éco-féminisme or écoféminisme) in 1974. ... Lois Gibbs, or Lois Marie Gibbs, (born 1952) is an environmental activist whose involvement in environmental causes began in 1978, when she discovered that her 7-year-old sons elementary school in Niagara Falls, New York was built on a toxic waste dump. ... Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American poet, non-fiction writer, short story writer, novelist, lecturer, and social reformer. ... Susan Griffin is the eco-feminist author of The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues (2001); Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her; Pornography and Silence; and A Chorus of Stones; Unremembered Country (1987); The Eros of Everyday Life (1995); What Her Body Thought: A Journey into... Monica Sjoo Swedish painter, died 8 August 2005 of cancer. ... Petra Kelly, 1987 Petra Karin Kelly (November 29, 1947 – October 1, 1992), German peace activist and Green politician, was born in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany in 1947, and lived and studied in the United States between 1959 and 1970. ... Anna Bonus Kingsford (September 16, 1846 - February 22, 1888) was one of the first female British physicians, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai born April 1, 1940 in Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District of Kenya is an environmental and political activist. ... Maria Mies is a professor of sociology and author of several influential feminist books, including Indian Women and Patriarchy (1980), Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (1986), and (with Bennholdt-Thomsen and von Werlhof) Women: The Last Colony (1988). ... Vandana Shiva 2007 in Cologne, Germany Vandana Shiva (b. ... Charlene Spretnak is an author, academic and feminist credited with pioneering work in ecological thought and social criticism. ... Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. ...

Dissident feminists

• Tammy Bruce
• Jean Curthoys
• Donna LaFramboise
• Camille Paglia
• Christina Hoff Sommers
• Norah Vincent
• Naomi Wolf

Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts The Tammy Bruce Show, a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. ... Jean Curthoys (born 1947) is an Australian feminist philosopher. ... Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist and author critical of recent developments in feminism. ... Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, author and teacher. ... It has been suggested that Equity feminism be merged into this article or section. ... Norah Vincent is an American journalist and author, known for being a conservative lesbian. ... Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer. ...

Individualist feminists

For main article, see Individualist feminism To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

• Wendy Kaminer
• Wendy McElroy
• Carol Moore
• Sharon Presley
• Joan Kennedy Taylor
• Cathy Young

Wendy Kaminer is a law professor and feminist writer. ... Wendy McElroy is a Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist. ... Carol Moore is an ethicist and systems theorist best known for her theories of secession and her analysis of Mahatma Gandhis methods as an intuitive systems theorist. She is considered an influential critic of globalization; Although not widely read or followed in the protest-oriented wing of the anti_globalization... Sharon Presley is a libertarian and individualist anarchist feminist writer and activist. ... Cathy Young Cathy Young (Ekaterina Jung) was born in the Soviet Union in 1963. ...

Anarcha-feminists

For main article, see: Anarcha-feminism Anarcha-feminism combines anarchism with feminism. ...

• Voltairine de Cleyre
• Kathy Ferguson
• Emma Goldman
• Louise Michel
• Charlotte Wilson
• Erin Clements

Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866–June 20, 1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced; yet she is not widely known even among anarchists today. ... Theory Issues Culture By region Lists Anarchism Portal Politics Portal ·        Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) aka Red Emma, was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. ... Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. ... Charlotte Wilson was an anarchist who co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin. ...

French feminists

For main article, see French feminism French feminism (which is a phrase mostly used in English-speaking countries) refers to the work of a group of feminists in France from the 1970s to the early 1990s. ...

• Olympe Audouard
• Hubertine Auclert
• Marie Bashkirtseff
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Helene Cixous
• Christine Delphy
• Maria Deraismes
• Marguerite Durand
• Olympe de Gouges
• Colette Guillaumin
• Gyp
• Luce Irigaray
• Julia Kristeva
• André Leo
• Nicole-Claude Mathieu
• Anais Nin
• Madeleine Pelletier
• Pauline Roland
• Séverine
• Paola Tabet
• Flora Tristan
• Eugenie Potonie-Pierre
• Monique Wittig

Olympe Audouard (1830—1890) was a French feminist who demanded complete equality for women, including the rights to vote and to stand for election. ... Hubertine Auclert, April 10, 1848 - died August 4, 1914, was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for womens suffrage. ... Marie Bashkirtseff (November 11, 1858 - October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor Marie Bashkirtseff Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. ... La Beauvoir redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). ... Hélène Cixous (born 1937) is a French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic. ... Maria Deraismes, born August 17, 1828 – February 6, 1894, was a French author and major pioneering force for womens rights. ... Marguerite Durand, born January 24, 1864 – died March 16, 1936, was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. ... Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze; December 31, 1745, – November 3, 1793) was a playwright and journalist whose feminist writings reached a large audience. ... Gyp may either be A slang term (see Gyp (slang), or The pen name of Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Luce Irigaray (born 1930 Belgium) is a French feminist and psychoanalytic and cultural theorist. ... Julia Kristeva (Bulgarian: ) (born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. ... Victoire Léodile Béra was a French novelist, journalist and feminist. ... Ana s Nin (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her self-published diaries, which span a period of forty years, beginning when she was twelve years old. ... Madeleine Pelletier dressed like a man to distance herself from femininity, a concept that she saw as a sign of the oppression of women Dr. Madeleine Pelletier (May 18, 1874 - December 19, 1939) was a French psychiatrist, and a feminist and socialist activist. ... Pauline Roland (1805—1852) was a French feminist and socialist. ... Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, born April 27, 1855 – died April 24, 1929, was a French socialist, journalist, and feminist best known under the name Séverine. ... Flora Tristan, grandmother of Paul Gauguin Flora Tristan (born April 7, 1803 in Paris, France - died November 14, 1844 in Bordeaux, France) was a socialist writer and activist. ... Eugenie Potonie-Pierre was a French feminist who founded the Federation of French Feminist Societies in 1892. ... Monique Wittig (July 13, 1935 in Haut-Rhin, France – January 3, 2003 in Tucson, Arizona) was a French author and feminist theorist, particularly interested in overcoming gender. ...

Jewish feminists

Main article: List of Jewish feminists

This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Lesbian feminists

For main article, see: Lesbian feminism Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective, most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s (primarily in North America and Western Europe) that questions the position of women and homosexuals in society. ...

• Jeffner Allen
• Susan Cavin
• Margaret Cruinshank
• Mary Daly
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Andrea Dworkin
• Marilyn Frye
• Bertha Harris
• Sarah L. Hoagland
• Sheila Jeffreys
• Sonia Johnson
• Jill Johnston
• Audre Lorde
• Robin Morgan
• Maricla Moyano
• Julia Penelope
• Janice Raymond
• Adrienne Rich
• Kathy Rudy
• Ruth Simpson
• Barbara Smith
• Ailbhe Smyth
• Urvashi Vaid
• Susan Wolfe
• Monique Wittig
• Sande Zeig

Mary Daly (born October 16, 1928 in Schenectady, New York) is a radical feminist theologian. ... Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955) is a British poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. ... Andrea Dworkin speaking to a federal commission on pornography in New York in January 1986 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women. ... Marilyn Frye is a philosophy professor and feminist theorist. ... Bertha Harris (1939, Fayetteville, North Carolina) is an American born openly lesbian novelist. ... Sheila Jeffreys (born 1948) is a well-known and controversial radical lesbian feminist. ... Sonia Johnson (born February 27, 1936) is an American feminist activist and writer, and was an outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). ... Feminist Author Wrote Lesbian Nation in 1973. ... Lorde redirects here. ... Robin Morgan (born January 3, 1941) is an American radical feminist activist, writer, and editor of Sisterhood is Powerful and . ... Janice G. Raymond is professor emerita of womens studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. ... Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer. ... M Kathy Rudy is an associate professor of womens studies and ethics at Duke University. ... Ruth Simpson is a Gay rights activist from Cleveland, OH who served as President of Daughters of Bilitis New York Chapter in the 1970s. ... Barbara Smith is an African-American, lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. ... Urvashi Vaid (b. ... Monique Wittig (July 13, 1935 in Haut-Rhin, France – January 3, 2003 in Tucson, Arizona) was a French author and feminist theorist, particularly interested in overcoming gender. ... Sande Zeig is an American film director. ...

Muslim feminists

For main article, see Islamic feminism A symbol of Islamic feminism, incorporating the Crescent Moon and Star of Islam into the female symbol Islamic feminism is a form of feminism that aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of sex or gender, in public and private life. ...

• Leila Ahmed
• Qasim Amin
• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
• Shirin Ebadi
• Fatima Mernissi
• Nawal el-Sadaawi
• Huda Shaarawi
• Kartini (Indonesian)
• Irshad Manji
• Asra Nomani
• Azar Nafisi
• Taslima Nasrin (secular but of Muslim origin)
• Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim

Leila Ahmed is an Egyptian American professor of Womens Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School. ... Qasim Amin (1863-1908) was an Egyptian jurist, one of the founders of the Egyptian National Movement and Cairo University. ... Begum Zaib-un-Nissa (Zeb-un-Nissa, Zaibunnissa, Zaibun Nisa, Zaibunisa, Zaib-un-Nisa, Zebunnissa, Zeb-un-Nisa) Hamidullah (December 25, 1921 - September 10, 2000) was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in English, and also a pioneer of feminism in Pakistan. ... Shirin Ebadi at a press conference in November 2005. ... Fatima Mernissi is a contemporary Moroccan feminist writer. ... Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic Nawal al-Sa3dâwi) (born October 27, 1931) is an Egyptian feminist writer and activist. ... Hoda Shaarawi (left) & Safia Zaghloul (right) Hoda Saarawi (1879 - 1947) was an Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist. ... Raden Adjeng Kartini or, more accurately, Raden Ayu Kartini, (Jepara, 21 April 1879 - Rembang, 13 September 1904), was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. ... Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian Muslim feminist, author, journalist, and activist. ... Asra Q. Nomani is an Indian-American Muslim journalist, author, and feminist. ... Azar Nafisi speaking at the 2004 National Book Festival in Washington D.C. Azar Nafisi, Ph. ... Taslima Nasrin Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: ), also spelled Taslima Nasreen and popularly refrerred to as Taslima, her first name rather than Nasreen (born 25 August 1962 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh) is a Bengali Bangladeshi author, feminist human rights activist and secular humanist exiled in Kolkata, India. ... Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim(1933- ), Arabic: , Sudanese writer, women rights activist and Socialist leader. ...

Latina feminists

See Feminist history in Latin America Feminist movements in Latin America started at the grassroots level in each of the distinct nation-states. ...

• Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Cherrie Moraga-One of the most influential of all time.
• Lydia Cacho
• Ana Castillo
• Christina Marie Farley- An influential feminist who used the metaphor of her cat muldoon to depict the amnesties of human origin.
• Linda Martín Alcoff

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 - May 15, 2004) was a Chicana lesbian feminist writer, poet, scholar and activist. ... Cherrie Moraga (born 25 September 1952 in Whittier, California) is a United States writer and activist of Anglo-Chicana descent. ... Lydia Cacho Ribero is a Mexican journalist and a famous feminist and Human Rights activist. ... Ana Castillo signing a copy of Massacre of the Dreamers, May 25, 2006 Ana Castillo (born 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist. ... Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy, Womens Studies and Political Science and currently the Director of Womens Studies at Syracuse University. ...

German and German-Jewish feminists

• Ottilie Assing
• Else Mayer
• [Alice Schwarzer]]
• Helene Stöcker
• Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
• Clara Zetkin

Ottilie Davida Assing (Feb 11, 1819-Aug 21, 1884) was a 19th Century German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist. ... Else Mayer (1891-1962) was a German nun and womens liberation activist during the period of the First-wave feminism. ... Helene Stöcker (* 13. ... Dr. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin Trude Weiss-Rosmarin (June 17, 1908–June 26, 1989) was a German Jewish writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. ... Stamp Clara Zetkin, maiden name Eissner (5 July 1857 - 20 June 1933) was an influential socialist German politician and a fighter for womens rights. ...

Women's Health Feminists

• Barbara Seaman
• Mary Howell
• Alice Wolfson

Seaman is a women’s health activist who, through persistent investigative journalism, reporting, and social organizing, has brought about significant changes in the relationship between the medical and pharmaceutical establishments and women in America. ... Mary Catherine Raugust Howell (September 2, 1932 – February 5, 1998), was a physician, psychologist, lawyer, mentor, musician and mother. ... Alice Wolfson, a Barnard graduate and former Fulbright Scholar, is a veteran political activist in womens reproductive health issues, a lawyer, and a co-founder of the National Womens Health Network. ...

Other feminists

• Pamela Anderson, American currently working at the University of Oxford
• Winifred Banks - Fictional feminist from Mary Poppins (movie version only)
• Alan Alda U.S. Actor (M*A*S*H*, (The West Wing) who campaigned extensively on behalf of Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970's and early 1980's.
• Lois W. Banner, U.S. historian
• Annie Besant
• Kurt Cobain self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "Rape Me", which he described as "anti-rape".
• Anti-Flag self proclaimed feminists. Have written songs about feminism including "Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain}
• Flora Brovina
• Liz Carpenter one of the founders of the National Women's Political Caucus
• Cynthia Enloe feminist International Relations scholar
• Betty Ford
• Sarah Michelle Gellar, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) [5]
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Aoua Keita
• Gerda Lerner post-Marxist feminist
• Rosa Huber Canadian Feminist/Activist
• Susan McClary
• Erin McPhee infamous, self-proclaimed feminist
• William Moulton Marston
• Martha Nussbaum
• Sylvia Plath author of The Bell Jar
• Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures
• Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956) - Indian feminist writer, considered India's equivalent of Simone de Beauvoir; writes in Oriya language (Orissa state)
• Thomas Sankara, author of Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1987 speech)
• Ailbhe Smyth, Irish feminist activist, academic
• J. Ann Tickner, feminist International Relations scholar
• Frances Willard (1839–1898), an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist
• Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Bitch and Prozac Nation
• Kazimiera Szczuka - Polish feminist, journalist and critic and theoretician of the literature
• S.U.Zanne - Belgian Feminist (1838–1923)

The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... This article is about the Mary Poppins series of childrens books. ... For the 2004 stage musical, see Mary Poppins (musical). ... Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... This article is about the overall franchise. ... This article is about a TV show. ... Lois Wendland Banner, more commonly known as Lois W. Banner, is a successful feminist author. ... Annie Besant Plaque on house in Colby Road, London SE19 where Annie Besant lived in 1874. ... Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. ... Rape Me is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. ... Anti-Flag is an American political punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, consisting of four members: Justin Sane (lead guitar, lead vocals), Chris #2 (bass, vocals), Chris Head (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), and Pat Thetic (drums). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... White House portrait Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, known commonly as Lady Bird Johnson, (born December 22, 1912), as the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, was First Lady of the United States from 1963-1969. ... The National Womens Political Caucus was formed in 1971(by Betty Friedan) with a goal of increasing the number of women involved in politics, including running for office and serving as delegates to national conventions. ... Cynthia H. Enloe is a pioneer in the feminist study of international relations. ... Foreign affairs redirects here. ... Betty Fords official White House portrait, painted in 1977 by Felix de Cossio Elizabeth Anne Bloomer Warren Ford (born April 8, 1918) is the widow of former United States President Gerald R. Ford and was the First Lady from 1974 to 1977. ... Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. ... For other uses, see Buffy the Vampire Slayer (disambiguation). ... Ayaan Hirsi Ali, MA ( ; Somali: ; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan 13 November 1969[2] in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Dutch feminist and political writer, daughter of the Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. ... Aoua Kéita (1912-1980) was a Malian independence activist and writer from Mali. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Susan McClary (born 2 October 1946) is a musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the New Musicology. She is noted for her work combining musicology and feminism. ... Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, and comic book writer who created the Wonder Woman character with his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ... Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. ... Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. ... The Bell Jar is American writer Sylvia Plaths only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963. ... Katha Pollitt (born 1949) is an American feminist writer. ... Dr. Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956) is an Indian feminist writer who has received the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1993, the Jhankar Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award and the Prajatantra Award. ... La Beauvoir redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... , Orissa   (Oriya: ଓଡ଼ିଶା), is a state situated on the east coast of India. ... Thomas Sankara Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (born December 21, 1949 in Yako – died October 15, 1987 in Ouagadougou) was the leader of Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) from 1983 to 1987. ... J. Ann Tickner is a feminist international relations (IR) theorist. ... Foreign affairs redirects here. ... Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839-February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and womens suffragist. ... Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City) is an American writer and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre. ... Kazimiera Szczuka (born 22 June 1966) is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link. ...

Feminist allies

• Jello Biafra, American punk rock musician and Green Party activist.
• Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese anime director.

Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... This article is about the American political party, Green Party. ... Hayao Miyazaki ) (born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is the prominent director of many popular animated feature films. ...

References

External links

• National Women's History Project
• FemBio - Notable Women International