List of feminists

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

Feminists

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
Mariama Bâ, writer and supporter for women's rights from Senegal.
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

Bella Abzug
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Ti-Grace Atkinson
Lorraine Bethel
Susan Brownmiller
Charlotte Bunch
Beatrix Campbell
Thérèse Casgrain
Shirley St. Hill Chisholm
Sandra Coney
Sonja Davies
Angela Davis
Simone de Beauvoir
Carol Downer
Cynthia Enloe
Myrlie Evers
Susan Faludi
Melissa Farley
Clara Fraser
Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford
Gerald Ford
Jo Freeman (Joreen)
Marilyn French
Betty Friedan
Carol Gilligan
Heide Göttner-Abendroth, German
Germaine Greer
Carol Hanisch
Donna Haraway
Bertha Harris
Nancy Hartsock
Dorothy Hewett
bell hooks
Sheila Jeffreys, Australian radical feminist
Florynce Kennedy
Coretta Scott King
Anne Koedt
Peggy Kornegger
Jacqueline Livingston
Angela Mason (1944-), British
Kate Millett
Robin Morgan
Ann Oakley
Griselda Pollock
Erin Pizzey
Janice Raymond
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Helen Reddy
Sheila Rowbotham, British
Joanna Russ
Diana E. H. Russell
Alice Schwarzer
Lynne Segal
Kato Shidzue, Japan
Ann Simonton
Eleanor Smeal
Dale Spender
Gloria Steinem
Michele Wallace
Hilary Wainwright
Molly Yard

Third-wave feminists

Li Ang (writer)
Tori Amos
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Margaret Atwood
Jennifer Baumgardner
Melissa Benn
Giannina Braschi
Augusta Bender
Susie Bright
Carrie Brownstein
Judith Butler
Margaret Cho
Meg Waite Clayton
Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist ThoughtCollins, Patricia Hill (2000). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. ISBN 0-415-92483-9. OCLC 41211570.
Kimberly Dark
Ani DiFranco
Martha Davis
Donna Dresch
Betty Dodson
Johanna Fateman
Tavi Gevinson
Emily Haines
Kathleen Hanna
Donna Haraway
bell hooks
Holly Hunter
Joan Jett
Miranda July
Marcelle Karp
Jamie Keiles
Jean Kilbourne
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Korean-American theologian
Barbara Kingsolver
Ariel Levy
Rosie Malek-Yonan, activist and author of The Crimson Field
Inga Muscio
Kathy Najimy
Sandra Oh
Alicia Ostriker
Ellen Page
Peaches
Liz Phair
Maria Raha
JD Samson
Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon
Gudrun Schyman
Joan Smith
Annie Sprinkle, American porn actress
Debbie Stoller
Nadine Strossen
Lili Taylor
Corin Tucker
Robin Tunney
Tobi Vail
Jessica Valenti
Rebecca Walker
Natasha Walter
Kaia Wilson
Naomi Wolf
Allison Wolfe
Julie Zeilinger

Ecofeminists

French feminists

Muslim feminists

Related pages

References

↑ ‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ "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.
↑ "National Park Service - Museum Management Program". www.nps.gov.
↑ McPherson, Angela; McPherson, Susan (2010). Mosley's Old Suffragette - A Biography of Norah Elam. ISBN 978-1-4452-7308-2.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies.
↑ "Harriet Taylor : Biography". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-07-08.

Other websites

National Women's History Project
FemBio - Notable Women International Archived 2004-04-01 at the Wayback Machine

[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.

[McPherson_&_McPherson-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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