List of feminists
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This is a list of important participants in the development of [[feminism]], listed by feminist ideology.
==Early pioneers==
*[[Eleanor of Aquitaine]] 12th century: believed in women's superiority over men{{Fact|date=August 2007}}
*[[Bettisia Gozzadini]] (1209-1261) Held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, Probably the first woman ever to hold a university post.
*[[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
*[[Sophia Elisabet Brenner]] (1659-1724), Swedish salonist and phoet
*[[Dorothea Erxleben]] (1715–1762), first female [[physician]] in [[Germany]]
*[[Catharina Ahlgren]](1734-1783), Swedish journalist and feminist.
*[[Thomas Paine]] (1737–1809), American Founding Father and revolutionary [http://classicliberal.tripod.com/paine/fmlsx.html].
*[[Marquis de Condorcet]] (1743–1794), Philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment [http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2003/condorcet0.html]
*[[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]].
*[[Anna Maria Lenngren]] (1754-1817), Swedish phoet
*[[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1759–1797), author of ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]''
*[[Thomas Thorild]] (1759-1808), Swedish poet and feminist
*[[Jane Gomeldon]] (died 1779), English essayist
*[[Mary Shelley]] (1797–1851), English novelist
*[[Catharine Beecher]] (1800–1878), American educator, [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a2109 author]
* [[Lovisa Årberg]] (1803-1866), first female [[physician]] in [[Sweden]]
* [[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 [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wtaylor.htm].
* [[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]]
* [[Auguste Schmidt]], (1833-1902), Pioneer of women's education in Germany
* [[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 (doctor)|Elizabeth Blackwell]] (1821–1910), first female [[physician]] in the U.S.A.
* [[Anna Bayerová]] (1853–1924), second [[Czechs|Czech]] female physician
* [[Celia Sánchez]] (1920–1980) - participant in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution.
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==First-wave feminists==
''For main article, see: [[First-wave feminism]]''
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*[[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 (doctor)|Elizabeth Blackwell]]
*[[Fredrika Bremer]]
*[[Ursula Mellor Bright]]<ref>‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</ref>
*[[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]] [http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/womens.htm]
*[[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]]<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies</ref>
*[[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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==Second-wave feminists==
''For main article, see: [[Second-wave feminism]]''
*[[Bella Abzug]]
*[[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]]
*[[Ti-Grace Atkinson]]
*[[Simone de Beauvoir]]
*[[Lorraine Bethel]]
*[[Susan Brownmiller]]
*[[Charlotte Bunch]]
*[[Beatrix Campbell]]
*[[Thérèse Casgrain]]
*[[Brett Clements]]
*[[Sandra Coney]]
*[[Mary Daly]]
*[[Sonja Davies]]
*[[Angela Davis]]
*[[Heather Dean]]
*[[Christine Delphy]]
*[[Carol Downer]]
*[[Andrea Dworkin]]
*[[Cynthia Enloe]]
*[[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]]
*[[Bernice Johnson Reagon]]
*[[Liz Kelly]]
*[[Renate Klein]]
*[[Anne Koedt]]
*[[Sharon Krebs]]
*[[Bonnie Kreps]]
*[[Peggy Kornegger]]
*[[Jacqueline Livingston]]
*[[Catharine MacKinnon]]
*[[Gloria Martin]]
*[[Kate Millett]]
*[[Robin Morgan]]
*[[Ann Oakley]]
*[[Griselda Pollock]]
*[[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]]
*[[Ailbhe Smyth]]
*[[Dale Spender]]
*[[Gloria Steinem]]
*[[Michele Wallace]]
*[[Betsy Warrior]]
*[[Hilary Wainwright]]
*[[Melba Windoffer]]
*[[Molly Yard]]
==Third-wave feminists==
''For main article, see [[Third-wave feminism]]''
*[[Barbara Kingsolver]]
*[[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]]
*[[Joan Jett]]
*[[Miranda July]]
*[[Marcelle Karp]]
*[[Jean Kilbourne]]
*[[Rosie Malek-Yonan]] (activist and author of [http://www.thecrimsonfield.com The Crimson Field] )
*[[Inga Muscio]]
*[[Kathy Najimy]]
*[[Sandra Oh]]
*[[Alicia Ostriker]]
*[[Ellen Page]]
*[[Lisa Palac]]
*[[Liz Phair]]
*[[Maria Raha]]
*[[JD Samson]]
*[[Gudrun Schyman]]
*[[Joan Smith (novelist and journalist)|Joan Smith]]
*[[Annie Sprinkle]]
*[[Debbie Stoller]]
*[[Nadine Strossen]]
*[[Robin Tunney]]
*[[Tobi Vail]]
*[[Rebecca Walker]]
*[[Natasha Walter]]
*[[Kaia Wilson]]
*[[Naomi Wolf]]
*[[Patricia Hill Collins]] (author of ''Black Feminist Thought'')
*[[Cheryl Seelholf]] (Creator of ''Gentle Spirit Magazine'')
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''See also: [[Third-wave feminism]]''
==Radical feminists==
''For main article, see [[Radical feminism]]''
*[[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]]
*[[Catharine MacKinnon]]
*[[Robin Morgan]]
*[[Valerie Solanas]]
*[[Rote Zora]]
==Ecofeminists==
For main article, see ''[[Ecofeminism]]''
*[[Carol J. Adams]]
*[[Helene Aylon]]
*[[Judi Bari]]
*[[Bernadette Cozart]]
*[[Mary Daly]]
*[[Françoise d'Eaubonne]]
*[[Lois Marie Gibbs]]
*[[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]
*[[Susan Griffin]]
*[[Monica Sjoo]]
*[[Leslie Davies]]
*[[Petra Kelly]]
*[[Anna Kingsford]]
*[[Winona LaDuke]]
*[[Wangari Maathai]]
*[[Maria Mies]]
*[[Vandana Shiva]]
*[[Charlene Spretnak]]
*[[Starhawk]]
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==Dissident feminists==
*[[Tammy Bruce]]
*[[Jean Curthoys]]
*[[Donna LaFramboise]]
*[[Camille Paglia]]
*[[Christina Hoff Sommers]]
*[[Norah Vincent]]
*[[Naomi Wolf]]
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==Individualist feminists==
''For main article, see [[Individualist feminism]]''
*[[Wendy Kaminer]]
*[[Wendy McElroy]]
*[[Carol Moore]]
*[[Sarojini Sahoo]]
*[[Sharon Presley]]
*[[Joan Kennedy Taylor]]
*[[Cathy Young]]
==Anarcho-feminists==
''For main article, see: [[Anarcha-feminism]]''
*[[Voltairine de Cleyre]]
*[[Kathy Ferguson]]
*[[Emma Goldman]]
*[[Louise Michel]]
*[[Charlotte Wilson]]
*[[Erin Clements]]
==French feminists==
''For main article, see [[French feminism]]''
*[[Olympe Audouard]]
*[[Hubertine Auclert]]
*[[Marie Bashkirtseff]]
*[[Simone de Beauvoir]]
*[[Helene Cixous]]
*[[Christine Delphy]]
*[[Maria Deraismes]]
*[[Marguerite Durand]]
*[[Bracha L. Ettinger]]
*[[Olympe de Gouges]]
*[[Colette Guillaumin]]
*[[Gyp]]
*[[Luce Irigaray]]
*[[Julia Kristeva]]
*[[André Leo]]
*[[Nicole-Claude Mathieu]]
*[[Anaïs Nin]]
*[[Madeleine Pelletier]]
*[[Pauline Roland]]
*[[Séverine]]
*[[Paola Tabet]]
*[[Flora Tristan]]
*[[Eugenie Potonie-Pierre]]
*[[Monique Wittig]]
==Jewish feminists==
{{main|List of Jewish feminists}}
==Lesbian feminists==
''For main article, see: [[Lesbian feminism]]''
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*[[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]]
*[[Kerry Thompson]] (Senior Lecturer in Feminist Theory at UCL)
*[[Urvashi Vaid]]
*[[Susan Wolfe]]
*[[Monique Wittig]]
*[[Sande Zeig]]
==Muslim feminists==
''For main article, see [[Islamic feminism]]''
* [[Leila Ahmed]]
* [[Qasim Amin]]
* [[Benazir Bhutto]], former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] and Chairperson of the [[Pakistan Peoples Party]]
* [[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]]
==Latina feminists==
''See [[Feminist history in Latin America]]''
*[[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]]
==German and German-Jewish feminists==
* [[Ottilie Assing]]
* [[Else Mayer]]
* [[Alice Schwarzer]]
* [[Helene Stöcker]]
* [[Trude Weiss-Rosmarin]]
* [[Clara Zetkin]]
== Women's Health Feminists ==
* [[Barbara Seaman]]
* [[Mary Howell]]
* [[Alice Wolfson]]
* [[Jerilynn Prior]]
== Other feminists ==<!-- ?? -->
* [[Mary Poppins#Mrs. Banks|Winifred Banks]] - Fictional feminist from ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|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]]
* [[Tina Fey]] Actress and writer of the [[NBC]] show [[30 Rock]]
* [[Juliette Frette]], American model .
* [[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 (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]])'' [http://www.usaweekend.com/98_issues/981025/981025buffy.html]
*[[André A. Jackson]], African diamond administrator and philanthropist
*[[Aoua Keita]]
*[[Gerda Lerner]] post-Marxist feminist
*[[Rosa Huber]] Canadian Feminist/Activist
*[[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]]"
*[[Melissa McEwan]] American blogger and activist
*[[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)
*[[Flora Sandes]] jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War.
*[[Ailbhe Smyth]], Irish feminist activist, academic
*[[J. Ann Tickner]], feminist [[International Relations]] scholar
*[[Joss Whedon]], writer-director, creator of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
*[[Frances Willard (suffragist)|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)
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==Feminist allies==
*[[Jello Biafra]], American [[punk rock]] musician and [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party]] activist.
*[[Hayao Miyazaki]], Japanese anime director.
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.nwhp.org/ National Women's History Project]
* [http://www.fembio.org/default.shtml FemBio - Notable Women International]
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