This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism. Where an associated biographical page is not available as an internal link, reliable sources should be added establishing notability. [edit] Feminists - Sue Serens (1800-?)[citation needed]
- Jane Addams (1860–1935)
- Abigail Adams (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States
- Sophie Adlersparre (1823-1895)
- 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.
- Jeffner Allen
- Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German university lecturer
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- Jane Anger author of Her Protection for Women published 1589 in London.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette
- Lovisa Årberg (1803-1866), first female physician in Sweden
- Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), Activist, writer, thinker, pioneer and founder of the Feminist Movement in Spain
- Ottilie Assing
- Mary Astell (c. 1666 – 1731), author of "Serious Proposal to the Ladies"
- Hubertine Auclert
- Rachel Foster Avery
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Anna Bayerová (1853–1924), second Czech female physician
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Catharine Beecher (1800–1878), American educator, author
- Julie Bindel, Guardian columnist and a campaigner against male violence, sex trafficking and rape.
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first female physician in the U.S.A.
- Barbara Bodichon
- Anne Bradstreet
- Fredrika Bremer
- Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659-1724), Swedish salonist and poet
- Ursula Mellor Bright[1]
- Susan Brownmiller
- Antoinette Brown
- Katherine Burdekin
- Lucy Burns
- Katharine Bushnell
- Lydia Cacho
- Frances Jennings Casement
- Ana Castillo
- Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's rights activist
- Maria Cederschiöld
- Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), Queen
- Enid Charles (1894–1972)
- Alice Whitcomb Clark
- Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879), English artist and author
- Voltairine de Cleyre
- Francis Power Cobbe
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), Philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment [1]
- Rachael Townley (1989-2009), First lesbian leader of Watford.[citation needed]
- Nikki Craft (Activist from 1970 to 2006 and beyond who does not identify as 2nd or 3rd wave feminist.)
- Mary Daly
- Marie Dentière - (c. 1495 – 1561)- Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women.
- Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution.
- Christine de Pizan (1365–1430)
- Guru Nanak Dev (1469-1539), founder of Sikhism.
- Frederick Douglass [2]
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Marguerite Durand
- Andrea Dworkin
- Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) Communist writer and thinker. Wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
- Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first female physician in Germany
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Shulamith Firestone
- Louise Flodin
- Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954) suffragist, painter, writer
- Marilyn Frye
- Margaret Fuller
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Emma Goldman
- Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist
- Olympe de Gouges
- Marie de Gournay
- Bettisia Gozzadini (1209-1261) Held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, Probably the first woman ever to hold a university post.
- Sarah Grimke
- Angelina Emily Grimke
- Marianne Hainisch
- Bertha Harris
- Jane Ellen Harrison - British scholar
- Sarah Hoagland
- Julia Ward Howe
- Mary Howell
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the new world
- Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician ever.
- 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
- Alexandra Kollontai
- Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817), Swedish phoet
- Louisa Lawson - Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
- Mary Lee - South Australian suffragist
- Anna Leonowens
- Mary Livermore
- Audre Lorde
- Mina Loy
- Margaret Bright Lucas[2]
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Catharine MacKinnon
- Agnes Macphail - first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons; founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada
- Linda Martín Alcoff
- Else Mayer
- Rosa Mayreder
- Nellie McClung
- Wendy McElroy
- Helen Priscilla McLaren
- Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871-1880. Considered women's labor of comparable worth.
- Katti Anker Møller - Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
- Becky Moore[citation needed]
- Cherrie Moraga
- Robin Morgan
- Lucretia Mott
- Anna Maria Mozzoni
- Clarina I. H. Nichols
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- Alice Paul
- Eva Perón
- Marion Phillips
- François Poullain de la Barre
- Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi
- Sharon Presley
- Jerilynn Prior
- Janice Raymond
- Adrienne Rich
- Rosalie Roos (1823-1898)
- Ernestine Rose
- Kathy Rudy
- Philip Sadler - Lecturer in Feminist Literature
- Sarojini Sahoo
- Celia Sánchez (1920–1980) - participant in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution.
- George Sand (1804–1876), French Novelist
- Margaret Sanger
- Auguste Schmidt, (1833-1902), Pioneer of women's education in Germany
- Olive Schreiner
- Alice Schwarzer
- Rose Scott
- Barbara Seaman
- Séverine
- Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
- Tarabai Shinde
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Kate Sheppard
- Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897) English activist and writer
- Ruth Simpson
- Barbara Smith
- Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
- Valerie Solanas
- Anna Garlin Spencer
- Helene Stöcker
- Lucy Stone
- Marie Stopes
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
- Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher and theologian.
- Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English thinker [3].
- Joan Kennedy Taylor
- Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), Swedish poet and feminist
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Urvashi Vaid
- Wil van Gogh
- Peng Wan-ru
- Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
- Karolina Widerström
- Charlotte Wilson
- Monique Wittig
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Alice Wolfson
- Victoria Woodhull
- Virginia Woolf
- Frances Wright
- Cathy Young
- Sande Zeig
- Clara Zetkin
- Rote Zora
[edit] Second-wave feminists For main article, see: Feminist Movement in the United States [edit] Third-wave feminists For main article, see Third-wave feminism [edit] Ecofeminists For main article, see Ecofeminism [edit] French feminists For main article, see French feminism [edit] Muslim feminists For main article, see Islamic feminism [edit] Other feminists - Alan Alda U.S. Actor (M*A*S*H*, (The West Wing) who campaigned extensively on behalf of Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- Soteria Aliberty, Greek educator and writer
- 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
- Hillary Clinton, Former First Lady, Secretary of State, U.S. Politician
- Cynthia Enloe feminist International Relations scholar
- Tina Fey Actress and writer of the NBC show 30 Rock
- Betty Ford, Former First Lady
- Juliette Frette, American model
- André A. Jackson, African diamond administrator and philanthropist
- Aoua Keita
- Ivonne Kubala
- Gerda Lerner post-Marxist feminist
- Karlina Leksono Supelli Indonesian feminist
- Amanda Marcotte American blogger and activist
- Susan McClary
- Yoko Ono Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician
- John Lennon self-proclaimed feminist, along with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song "Woman is the Nigger of the World" and Woman (John Lennon song)
- Soe Tjen Marching Indonesian feminist
- Melissa McEwan American blogger and activist
- William Moulton Marston
- Martha Nussbaum
- Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Sylvia Plath author of The Bell Jar
- Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures
- Thomas Sankara, author of Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1987 speech)
- Flora Sandes jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War.
- Donita Sparks Musician
- J. Ann Tickner, feminist International Relations scholar
- Joss Whedon, writer-director, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- 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
[edit] References - ^ ‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies
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