List of feminists

This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism.

Feminists

See the main article: Feminism
  • Lesley Abdela, British feminist fl. 2010
  • Abigail Adams (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States
  • Jane Addams (1860–1935)
  • Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895)
  • Alfhild Agrell (1849–1923)
  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
  • Catharina Ahlgren (1734–1783), Swedish journalist and feminist
  • Linda Martín Alcoff
  • Alan Alda, U.S. actor (M*A*S*H* and The West Wing) who campaigned for Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and early 1980s
  • Soteria Aliberty, Greek educator and writer
  • Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German university lecturer
  • Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833–1898), Swedish feminist
  • Adelaide Anderson (1863–1936), British
  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), British physician and suffragist
  • Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943), British physician and suffragette
  • Jane Anger, author of Her Protection for Women, London: Printed by Richard Jones, and Thomas Orwin. 1589.
  • Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette
  • Anti-Flag, self-proclaimed feminists, who have written songs including Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain)
  • Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Maria Arbatova (born 1957), leading Russian feminist
  • Lovisa Årberg (1801–1881), first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden
  • Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), activist, writer, thinker, pioneer, and founder of the feminist movement in Spain
  • Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), British
  • Ottilie Assing
  • Mary Astell (c. 1666–1731), author of Serious Proposal to the Ladies
  • Hubertine Auclert
  • Rachel Foster Avery
  • Lois W. Banner, U.S. historian
  • Marie Bashkirtseff
  • Anna Bayerová (1853–1924), second Czech female physician
  • Lydia Becker (1827–1890), British suffrage campaigner
  • Catharine Beecher (1800–1878), American educator and author
  • Helen Bentwich (1892–1972), British Chair of London County Council
  • Signe Bergman (1869–1960), Swedish suffrage leader
  • Annie Besant
  • Julie Bindel, Guardian columnist and a campaigner against male violence, sex trafficking, and rape
  • Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953), British suffragette
  • Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964), British founder of the Women's Freedom League
  • Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first female physician in the U.S.
  • Barbara Bodichon
  • Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973)
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Fredrika Bremer
  • Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1724), Swedish salonist and poet
  • Ursula Mellor Bright[1]
  • Emilia Broomé, Swedish politician
  • Flora Brovina
  • Antoinette Brown
  • Susan Brownmiller
  • Katherine Burdekin
  • Lucy Burns
  • Katharine Bushnell
  • Josephine Butler (1828–1906), British
  • Lydia Cacho
  • Liz Carpenter, a founder of the National Women's Political Caucus
  • Frances Jennings Casement
  • Ana Castillo
  • Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's rights activist
  • Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish feminist
  • Enid Charles (1894–1972)
  • Phyllis Chesler
  • Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), Queen
  • Alice Whitcomb Clark
  • Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879), English artist and author
  • Voltairine de Cleyre
  • Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and now Secretary of State and U.S. politician
  • Kurt Cobain, self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "Rape Me", which he described as an "anti-rape song."
  • Francis Power Cobbe
  • Nikki Craft
  • Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film maker
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) First president of League of Women Voters,First woman from Texas to run for the United States Senate
  • Mary Daly, ethicist and theologian
  • Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913), British suffragette
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment [2]
  • Eoin Conroy
  • Olympe de Gouges
  • Marie de Gournay
  • François Poullain de la Barre
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the Western hemisphere
  • Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution
  • Christine de Pizan (1365–1430)
  • Josefina Deland (1814–1890), Swedish feminist
  • Barbara Deming
  • Marie Dentière (c. 1495–1561), Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women
  • Charlotte Despard (1844–1939), British
  • Frederick Douglass[3]
  • Carol Ann Duffy
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Marguerite Durand
  • Andrea Dworkin
  • Norah Elam (1878–1961)[4]
  • Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), Communist writer and thinker; wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
  • Cynthia Enloe, International Relations scholar
  • Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first female physician in Germany
  • Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929), British leader of the suffragist movement
  • Emily Faithfull (1835–1895), British
  • Shulamith Firestone
  • Louise Flodin, Swedish
  • Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954), suffragist, painter, and writer
  • Betty Ford, former First Lady
  • Isabella Ford (1855–1924)
  • Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi
  • Juliette Frette
  • Marilyn Frye
  • Margaret Fuller
  • Matilda Joslyn Gage
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Emma Goldman
  • Vida Goldstein (1869–1949), Australian feminist politician
  • Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist
  • Jane Goodall
  • Lois Gould
  • Bettisia Gozzadini (1209–1261), held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, probably the first woman ever to hold a university post.
  • Jane Grant
  • Angelina Emily Grimke
  • Sarah Grimke
  • Marianne Hainisch
  • Bertha Harris
  • Jane Ellen Harrison, British scholar
  • Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924)
  • Shere Hite
  • Sarah Hoagland
  • Nicole Hollander
  • Edith How-Martyn (1875–1954), British suffragette
  • Julia Ward Howe
  • Mary Howell
  • André A. Jackson, African diamond administrator and philanthropist
  • Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929), the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician
  • Karla Jay
  • Sheila Jeffreys
  • Sonia Johnson
  • Jill Johnston
  • Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857), Scottish journalist, editor, and novelist
  • Marie Juchacz, German social reformer, feminist, and Member of the Reichstag
  • Wendy Kaminer
  • Aoua Keita
  • Anna Kingsford (1846–1888)
  • Alexandra Kollontai
  • Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
  • Mary Lee, South Australian suffragist
  • Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), Swedish phoet
  • John Lennon, self-proclaimed feminist who with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song Woman is the Nigger of the World and Woman (John Lennon song)
  • Anna Leonowens
  • Gerda Lerner, post-Marxist
  • Fredrika Limnell, Swedish
  • Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878–1963)
  • Mary Livermore
  • Audre Lorde
  • Mina Loy
  • Margaret Bright Lucas[5]
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Constance Lytton, British suffragette
  • Catharine MacKinnon
  • Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons and founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada
  • Madonna, entertainer
  • Soe Tjen Marching, Indonesian feminist
  • Amanda Marcotte, American blogger and activist
  • William Moulton Marston
  • Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), British, writer
  • Else Mayer
  • Rosa Mayreder
  • Susan McClary
  • Nellie McClung
  • Wendy McElroy
  • Helen Priscilla McLaren
  • Page Mellish
  • Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871–1880 and considered women's labor of comparable worth
  • Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English thinker[6]
  • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
  • Katti Anker Møller, Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
  • Agda Montelius (1850–1920)
  • Honor Moore American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
  • Cherríe Moraga
  • Robin Morgan
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Anna Maria Mozzoni
  • Clarina I. H. Nichols
  • Helena Normanton British, first practising female barrister
  • Martha Nussbaum
  • Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
  • Yoko Ono, Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician
  • Grace Paley
  • Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette
  • Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette
  • Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette
  • Alice Paul
  • Eva Perón
  • Frédérique Petrides (1903-1983) Belgian-American; one of the first women orchestral conductors and editor of Women in Music
  • Marion Phillips
  • Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar
  • Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures
  • Sharon Presley
  • Jerilynn Prior
  • Madeleine de Puisieux (1720-1798), feminist writer
  • Eleanor Rathbone, British
  • Janice Raymond
  • Claire Rayner, British
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Abby Rockefeller
  • Rosalie Roos (1823–1898)
  • Ernestine Rose
  • Agnes Maude Royden, British suffrage campaigner
  • Kathy Rudy
  • Florence Rush
  • Gita Sahgal, Indian feminist
  • Sarojini Sahoo
  • Celia Sánchez (1920–1980), in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution
  • George Sand (1804–1876), French Novelist
  • Flora Sandes, jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War.
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Thomas Sankara, author of Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1987 speech)
  • Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), pioneer of women's education in Germany
  • Olive Schreiner
  • Alice Schwarzer
  • Rose Scott
  • Barbara Seaman
  • Baroness Seear, British
  • Séverine
  • Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
  • Kate Sheppard
  • Tarabai Shinde
  • Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897), English activist and writer
  • Elaine Showalter
  • Ruth Simpson
  • Barbara Smith
  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
  • Valerie Solanas
  • Donita Sparks, musician
  • Anna Garlin Spencer
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Anna Sterky
  • Helene Stöcker
  • Lucy Stone
  • Marie Stopes
  • Mary Stott, British feminist journalist
  • Karlina Leksono Supelli, Indonesian feminist
  • Kazimiera Szczuka, Polish feminist, journalist, and critic and theoretician of the literature
  • Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher, and theologian
  • Elisabeth Tamm
  • Joan Kennedy Taylor
  • Thomas Thorild (1759–1808), Swedish poet and feminist
  • J. Ann Tickner, International Relations scholar
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Urvashi Vaid
  • Wil van Gogh
  • Peng Wan-ru
  • Nesta Helen Webster, early 20th-century U.K. conservative
  • Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
  • Joss Whedon, writer-director and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Anna Whitlock, Swedish suffragette and school reformer
  • Karolina Widerström
  • Frances Willard (1839–1898), American educator, temperance reformer, and suffragist
  • Charlotte Wilson
  • Monique Wittig
  • Alice Wolfson
  • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Victoria Woodhull
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Frances Wright
  • Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Bitch and Prozac Nation
  • Cathy Young
  • Sande Zeig
  • Clara Zetkin
  • Rote Zora

Second-wave feminists

See the main article: Second-wave feminism

Third-wave feminists

See the main article: Third-wave feminism

Ecofeminists

See the main article: Ecofeminism

French feminists

See the main article: French feminism
  • Olympe Audouard
  • Hubertine Auclert
  • Marie Bashkirtseff
  • Hélène Cixous
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Olympe de Gouges
  • Christine Delphy
  • Maria Deraismes
  • Fatou Diome
  • Marguerite Durand
  • Bracha L. Ettinger
  • Colette Guillaumin
  • Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau
  • Gisèle Halimi
  • Luce Irigaray
  • Julia Kristeva
  • André Leo
  • Anaïs Nin
  • Madeleine Pelletier
  • Eugenie Potonie-Pierre
  • Pauline Roland
  • Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon
  • Séverine
  • Flora Tristan

Muslim feminists

See the main article: Islamic feminism
  • Leila Ahmed, Egyptian American writer
  • Qasim Amin
  • Shirin Ebadi
  • Nawal el-Sadaawi
  • Tahar Haddad, Tunisian writer
  • Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
  • Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
  • Kartini, Indonesian
  • Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
  • Elaheh Koulaei
  • Irshad Manji
  • Fatima Mernissi
  • Asra Nomani
  • Marjane Satrapi
  • Huda Shaarawi
  • Shahla Sherkat

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References

  1. ↑ ‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ↑ "Marquis de Condorcet on voting rights for women. Women's History Month 2003 by Sunshine for Women". Archived from the original on 2011-01-07. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
  3. ↑ "National Park Service - Museum Management Program". www.nps.gov.
  4. ↑ McPherson, Angela; McPherson, Susan (2010). Mosley's Old Suffragette - A Biography of Norah Elam. ISBN 978-1-4452-7308-2.[permanent dead link]
  5. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies.
  6. ↑ "Harriet Taylor : Biography". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-07-08.

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