List of feminists

This list of feminists catalogues individuals who identify or have been identified as proponents of feminist political, economic, social, and personal principles for gender equality.

Early feminists

Born before 1499.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1200–1300	Helen of Anjou	Serbia	1236	1314	Serbian queen, feminist, establisher of women's schools	^[1]^[2]
1300–1400	Christine de Pizan	Italy	1365	1430	Medieval court writer	^[3]
1300–1400	Jefimija	Serbia	1349	1405	Serbian politician, poet, diplomat	^[4]
1400–1499	Laura Cereta	Italy	1469	1499	feminist writer	^[5]
1400–1499	Balaram Das	India	unknown	unknown	15th century Odia poet; first attempt in India towards feminism	^[6]
1400–1499	Isabel de Villena	Spain	1430	1460	Feminist nun	^[7]^[8]

16th-century feminists

Born between 1500 and 1599.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1500–1599	India Juliana	Present-day Paraguay	fl. 1542	fl. 1542	Guaraní woman who lived in the newly-founded Asunción, known for killing a Spanish colonist between 1538 and 1542 and urging other indigenous women to do the same.	^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
1500–1599	Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa	Germany	1486	1535	Male feminist , wrote Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women	^[13]
1500–1599	Jane Anger	United Kingdom	fl. 1589	fl. 1589	Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women	^[14]
1500–1599	Marie de Gournay	France	1565	1645	Protofeminist writer of Egalité des hommes et des femmes (The equality of men and women)	^[15]
1500–1599	Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi	Italy	1501–1600	c. 1593	Protofeminist writer of The Worth of Women	^[16]
1500–1599	Lucrezia Marinella	Italy	c. 1571	1653	Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights	^[17]
1500–1599	Izumo no Okuni	Japan	c. 1571	unknown	Originator of kabuki theater	^[18]

17th-century feminists

Born between 1600 and 1699.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1600–1699	Mary Astell	United Kingdom	c. 1666	1731	English feminist writer and rhetorician	^[17]^[19]^[20]
1600–1699	Aphra Behn	United Kingdom	1640	1689	Writer and protofeminist	^[21]
1600–1699	Anne Bradstreet	United Kingdom	1612	1672	North American colonial poet	^[22]
1600–1699	Sophia Elisabet Brenner	Sweden	1659	1724	Writer and women's rights activist	^[23]
1600–1699	François Poullain de la Barre	France	1647	1725	Male feminist philosopher	^[17]
1600–1699	Sr. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	Mexico	1648	1695	Hieronymite nun, scholar and poet	^[24]
1600–1699	Ninon de l'Enclos	France	1620	1795	Author, courtesan, and patron of the arts	^{[citation needed]}

18th-century feminists

Born between 1700 and 1799.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1700–1799	Abigail Adams	United States	1744	1818	Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams	^[25]
1700–1799	Catharina Ahlgren	Sweden	1734	1800	Female Swedish publisher and writer.	^[26]
1700–1799	Annestine Beyer	Denmark	1795	1884	Pioneer of women's education	^[27]
1700–1799	Eleanor Butler	Ireland	1739	1829	One of the Ladies of Llangollen	^[28]
1700–1799	Marquis de Condorcet	France	1743	1794		^[17]
1700–1799	Olympe de Gouges	France	1748	1793	Playwright and political activist who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791	^[19]
1700–1799	Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt	France	1762	1817	Politician	^[29]
1700–1799	Francisco de Miranda, Gen.	Venezuela	1750	1816	Published an impassioned plea for women's education.	^[30]
1700–1799	Madeleine de Puisieux	France	1720	1798	Writer	^[31]
1700–1799	Dorothea Erxleben	Germany	1715	1762	First female medical doctor in Germany, argued for the right of women to study medicine and other disciplines at university	^[3]
1700–1799	Charles Fourier	France	1772	1837	Socialist feminist ; philosopher; credited with coining the (French) word "féministe"	^[32]^[33]
1700–1799	Jane Gomeldon	United Kingdom	c. 1720	1779	Writer and first to use the press to gain power through transparency.	^[34]
1700–1799	Sarah Moore Grimké	United States	1792	1873	abolitionist	^[19]^[35]
1700–1799	Francis Hutcheson	Ireland	1694	1746	Scottish-Irish philosopher, a founding father of the Scottish Enlightenment	^[36]
1700–1799	Christian Isobel Johnstone	United Kingdom	1781	1857	Journalist and author in Scotland	^[37]
1700–1799	Anne Knight	United Kingdom	1786	1862	Social reformer; pioneer of feminism	^[19]
1701–1800	Anna Maria Lenngren	Sweden	1754	1817	Writer, poet, and salonist; possibly a feminist	^[38]
1700–1799	Lucretia Mott	United States	1793	1880	Abolitionist and women's rights campaigner	^[39]
1700–1799	Judith Sargent Murray	United States	1751	1820	Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes	^[40]
1700–1799	John Neal	United States	1793	1876	Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer	^[41]^[42]
1700–1799	Sarah Ponsonby	Ireland	1755	1831	One of the Ladies of Llangollen	^[28]
1700–1799	Mary Shelley	United Kingdom	1797	1851	Early pioneer feminist	^[35]
1700–1799	Maria Engelbrecht Stokkenbech	Denmark	1759	after 1806	Dressed as a man to be able to work	^[43]
1700–1799	Thomas Thorild	Sweden	1759	1808	Male feminist , poet	^[44]
1700–1799	William Thompson (philosopher)	Ireland	1775	1833	Pro-feminist, socialist, collaborator of Anna Wheeler , author of "Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery", 1825, first published appeal for equality of women	^[45]
1700–1799	Sojourner Truth	United States	c. 1797	1883	First-wave feminist; abolitionist, women's rights activist, speaker, women's rights speech "Ain't I a Woman? "	^[25]^[35]
1700–1799	Anna Wheeler	Ireland	1785	1848	Feminist and socialist writer who networked Desiree Veret	^[46]^[45]
1700–1799	Mary Wollstonecraft	United Kingdom	1759	1797	Early pioneer proto-feminist. Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	^[25]^[35]
1700–1799	Frances Wright	United Kingdom	1795	1852	feminist	^[25]^[35]

Early and mid 19th-century feminists

Born between 1800 and 1874.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1800–1874	Juliette Adam	France	1836	1936		^[19]
1800–1874	Jane Addams	United States	1860	1935	Feminist; Women's Suffrage advocate; Major social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom	^[35]
1800–1874	Gertrud Adelborg	Sweden	1853	1942	Teacher and suffragist	^[47]
1800–1874	Sophie Adlersparre	Sweden	1823	1895	Publisher; one of three most notable pioneers of women's rights movement in Sweden	^[48]
1800–1874	Alfhild Agrell	Sweden	1849	1923		^[49]
1800–1874	Soteria Aliberty	Greece	1847	1929		^[19]
1800–1874	Jules Allix	France	1818	1897	Socialist; feminist	^[32]
1800–1874	Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner	Germany	1874	1930	Woman Suffrage	^[50]
1800–1874	Qasim Amin	Egypt	1863	1908	Muslim feminist ; early advocate of women's rights in Egyptian society	^[19]^[51]
1800–1874	Ellen Anckarsvärd	Sweden	1833	1898	Co-founded the Married Woman's Property Rights Association	^[52]
1800–1874	Adelaide Anderson	United Kingdom	1863	1936		^[20]
1800–1874	Elizabeth Garrett Anderson	United Kingdom	1836	1917	Feminist, suffragist ; first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in the UK; co-founder of first hospital staffed by women	^[20]^[53]
1800–1874	Louisa Garrett Anderson	United Kingdom	1873	1943	Suffragette	^[53]
1800–1874	Maybanke Anderson	Australia	1845	1927	Suffragette	^[54]
1800–1874	Susan Anthony	United States	1820	1906	Woman Suffrage advocate; played a pivotal role in movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States	^[25]
1800–1874	Lovisa Årberg	Sweden	1801	1881	First female doctor in Sweden	^[55]
1800–1874	Edith Archibald	Canada	1854	1936	Suffragist; led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union, the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax	^[56]
1800–1874	Concepción Arenal	Spain	1820	1893		^[17]
1800–1874	Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll	United Kingdom	1848	1939	Suffragette	^[57]
1800–1874	Ottilie Assing	Germany	1819	1884		^[58]
1800–1874	Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi	Iran	1859	1921	Writer	^[59]
1800–1874	Louise Aston	Germany	1814	1871		^[60]
1800–1874	Hubertine Auclert	France	1848	1914	Feminist activist, suffragette	^[35]
1800–1874	Olympe Audouard	France	1832	1890		^[35]
1800–1874	Alice Constance Austin	United States	1862	1955	radical feminist	^[61]
1800–1874	Rachel Foster Avery	United States	1858	1919	First-wave feminist; suffragette	^[35]
1800–1874	John Goodwyn Barmby	United Kingdom	1820	1881		^[53]
1800–1874	Marie Bashkirtseff	Ukraine	1858	1884	feminist ; French feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	José Batlle y Ordóñez	Uruguay	1856	1929		^[62]
1800–1874	Anna Bayerová	Czech Republic	1853	1924		^[63]
1800–1874	Jean Beadle	Australia	1868	1942	Feminist; social worker; political activist
1800–1874	August Bebel	Germany	1840	1913	Communist ; male	^[25]
1800–1874	Alaide Gualberta Beccari	Italy	1868	1930	radical feminist
1800–1874	Lydia Becker	United Kingdom	1827	1890	Suffragette	^[19]^[53]
1800–1874	Catharine Beecher	United States	1800	1878		^[19]
1800–1874	Alva Belmont	United States	1853	1933	Suffrage leader; speaker; author	^[19]
1800–1874	Louie Bennett	Ireland	1870	1956	Suffrage leader	^[19]
1800–1874	Ethel Bentham	United Kingdom	1861	1931	Progressive doctor, politician and suffragette	^[64]
1800–1874	Victoire Léodile Béra	France	1824	1900		^[65]
1800–1874	Signe Bergman	Sweden	1869	1960
1800–1874	Annie Besant	United Kingdom	1847	1933	Socialist feminist
1800–1874	Clementina Black	United Kingdom	1853	1922	Feminist, writer, trade unionist
1800–1874	Alice Stone Blackwell	United States	1857	1950	Feminist and journalist, editor of Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication	^[19]
1800–1874	Antoinette Brown Blackwell	United States	1825	1921	Founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
1800–1874	Elizabeth Blackwell	United States	1821	1910	First-wave feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	Henry Browne Blackwell	United States	1825	1909	Businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner
1800–1874	Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch	United States	1856	1940	Suffragist	^[19]^[53]
1800–1874	Amelia Bloomer	United States	1818	1894	Suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily, advocated for many women's issues	^[19]
1800–1874	Barbara Bodichon	United Kingdom	1827	1891		^[19]^[53]
1800–1874	Laura Borden	Canada	1861	1940	President of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
1800–1874	Lily Braun	Germany	1865	1916		^[19]
1800–1874	Fredrika Bremer	Sweden	1801	1865	Writer, feminist activist and pioneer of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden	^[19]
1800–1874	Ursula Mellor Bright	United Kingdom	1835	1915	Suffragette
1800–1874	Emilia Broomé	Sweden	1866	1925
1800–1874	Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton	United Kingdom	1869	1923	Suffragette
1800–1874	Katharine Bushnell	United States	1856	1946
1800–1874	Josephine Butler	United Kingdom	1828	1906		^[19]
1800–1874	Pancha Carrasco	Costa Rica	1826	1890		^[19]
1800–1874	Frances Jennings Casement	United States	1840	1928	Suffragette
1800–1874	Carrie Chapman Catt	United States	1859	1947	Suffrage leader, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women	^[19]^[25]
1800–1874	Maria Cederschiöld	Sweden	1856	1935	Suffragette
1800–1874	William Henry Channing	United States	1810	1884	Minister, author
1800–1874	Mary Agnes Chase	United States	1869	1963	suffragist
1800–1874	Ada Nield Chew	United Kingdom	1870	1945	Suffragette
1800–1874	Tennessee Celeste Claflin	United States	1844	1923	suffragist	^[25]
1800–1874	Alice Clark	United Kingdom	1874	1934
1800–1874	Helen Bright Clark	United Kingdom	1840	1972	Suffragette
1800–1874	Florence Claxton	United Kingdom	1840	1879
1800–1874	Francis Power Cobbe	Ireland	1822	1904
1800–1874	Mary Ann Colclough	New Zealand	1836	1885	Feminist; social reformer
1800–1874	Anna "Annie" Julia Cooper	United States	1858	1964	Suffragist	^[17]
1800–1874	Marguerite Coppin	Belgium	1867	1931	Woman poet laureate of Belgium and advocate of women's rights
1800–1874	Ida Crouch-Hazlett	United States	1870	1941	suffragist
1800–1874	Emily Wilding Davison	United Kingdom	1872	1913	Suffragist
1800–1874	Jenny d'Hericourt	France	1809	1875		^[19]
1800–1874	Voltairine de Cleyre	United States	1866	1912	Individualist feminist; anarcha-feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	Isabelle Gatti de Gamond	Belgian	1839	1905	Educator, feminist, suffragist, politician
1800–1874	Augustine De Rothmaler	Belgian	1859	1942	Pedagogue, feminist
1800–1874	Caroline Rémy de Guebhard	France	1855	1929
1800–1874	Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau	France	1849	1932
1800–1874	Draga Dejanović	Serbia	1840	1871		^[66]
1800–1874	Josefina Deland	Sweden	1814	1890	Writer, teacher, founded Society for Retired Female Teachers)
1800–1874	Maria Deraismes	France	1828	1894		^[65]
1800–1874	Jeanne Deroin	France	1805	1894		^[19]
1800–1874	Charlotte Despard née French	United Kingdom	1844	1939	Suffragette	^[19]
1800–1874	Wilhelmina Drucker	Netherlands	1847	1925	First wave feminist, political activist and writer	^[67]
1800–1874	Louisa Margaret Dunkley	Australia	1866	1927	Labour organizer
1800–1874	Marguerite Durand	France	1864	1936	Suffragette	^[68]
1800–1874	Friedrich Engels	Germany	1820	1895	Communist ; male	^[25]
1800–1874	Emily Faithfull	United Kingdom	1835	1895
1800–1874	Millicent Garrett Fawcett	United Kingdom	1847	1929	Long-time president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
1800–1874	Astrid Stampe Feddersen	Denmark	1852	1930	Chaired the first Scandinavian meeting on women's rights
1800–1874	Anna Filosofova	Russia	1837	1912	Early Russian woman's rights activist
1800–1874	Louise Flodin	Sweden	1828	1923
1800–1874	Mary Sargant Florence	United Kingdom	1857	1954	Suffragette
1800–1874	Isabella Ford	United Kingdom	1855	1924	Socialist feminist; suffragette
1800–1874	Margaret Fuller	United States	1810	1850	Transcendentalist, critic, advocate for women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century	^[25]
1800–1874	Matilda Joslyn Gage	United States	1826	1898	Suffragist, editor, writer, organizer	^[17]
1800–1874	Marie-Louise Gagneur	France	1832	1902	Feminist writer	^[69]
1800–1874	Eliza Gamble	United States	1841	1820	Intellectual and an advocate of the Women's Movement	^[70]
1800–1874	William Lloyd Garrison	United States	1805	1879	Abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate	^[25]
1800–1874	Edith Margaret Garrud	United Kingdom	1872	1971	Trained the 'Bodyguard' unit of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in jujutsu self-defence techniques
1800–1874	Désirée Gay	France	1810	1891	Socialist feminist	^[71]
1800–1874	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	United States	1860	1935	Ecofeminist	^[25]
1800–1874	Wil van Gogh	Netherlands	1862	1941
1800–1874	Emma Goldman	United Kingdom	1869	1940	Individualist feminist; Russian-American campaigner for birth control and other rights	^[19]^[25]^[35]
1800–1874	Vida Goldstein	Australia	1869	1949	Early Australian feminist politician; first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament	^[19]
1800–1874	Grace Greenwood	United States	1823	1904	First woman reporter on the New York Times payroll, advocate for social reform and women's rights
1800–1874	Angelina Emily Grimké	United States	1805	1879	First-wave feminist ; Woman Suffrage advocate	^[25]^[35]
1800–1874	Bella Guerin	Australia	1858	1923	Socialist feminist; first woman to graduate from an Australian university
1800–1874	Marianne Hainisch	Austria	1839	1936	Proponent of women's right to work and to receive education
1800–1874	Marion Coates Hansen	United Kingdom	1870	1947	Suffragette
1800–1874	Jane Ellen Harrison	United Kingdom	1850	1928
1800–1874	Anna Haslam	Ireland	1829	1922	Major figure in early women's movement in Ireland, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
1800–1874	Anna Hierta-Retzius	Sweden	1841	1924	Women's rights activist and philanthropist
1800–1874	Thomas Wentworth Higginson	United States	1828	1911	Abolitionist, minister, author
1800–1874	Marie Hoheisel	Austria	1873	1947	Women's rights activist. Chair of Austrian Mothers' Day Committee
1800–1874	Laurence Housman	United Kingdom	1865	1959	Socialist feminist
1800–1874	Julia Ward Howe	United States	1819	1910	Suffragist, writer, organizer
1800–1874	Louisa Hubbard	United Kingdom	1836	1906
1800–1874	Aletta Jacobs	Netherlands	1854	1929		^[17]
1800–1874	Kang Youwei	China	1858	1927		^[19]
1800–1874	Abby Kelley	United States	1811	1887	Suffragist and activist
1800–1874	Grace Kimmins	United Kingdom	1871	1954		^{[citation needed]}
1800–1874	Anna Kingsford	United Kingdom	1846	1888	Ecofeminist
1800–1874	Toshiko Kishida	Japan	1863	1901		^[19]
1800–1874	Evgenia Konradi	Russian Empire	1838	1898	Socialist feminist , writer, essayist	^[72]
1800–1874	Lotten von Kræmer	Sweden	1828	1912	Baroness, writer, poet, philanthropist, founder of the literary society Samfundet De Nio
1800–1874	Marie Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie	Canada	1867	1945	Suffragette; self-taught jurist
1800–1874	Louisa Lawson	Australia	1848	1920	Suffragette; radical pro-republican federalist; author and publisher	^[17]
1800–1874	Mary Lee	Australia, Ireland	1821	1909	Suffragette
1800–1874	Anna Leonowens	United Kingdom, India	1831	1915	Travel writer, educator, social activist
1800–1874	Fredrika Limnell	Sweden	1816	1897
1800–1874	Mary Livermore	United States	1820	1905	Women's rights journalist, suffragist
1800–1874	Belva Lockwood	United States	1830	1917		^[19]
1800–1874	Margaret Bright Lucas	United Kingdom	1818	1890	Suffragette
1800–1874	Christian Maclagan	United Kingdom	1811	1901
1800–1874	Kitty Marion	United Kingdom	1871	1944	Socialist feminist; suffragette
1800–1874	Harriet Martineau	United Kingdom	1802	1876
1800–1874	Eleanor Marx	United Kingdom	1855	1898	Socialist feminist
1800–1874	Rosa Mayreder	Austria	1858	1938		^[17]
1800–1874	Nellie McClung	Canada	1873	1951	Feminist and suffragist; part of The Famous Five
1800–1874	Helen Priscilla McLaren	United Kingdom	1851	1934
1800–1874	Louise Michel	France	1830	1905	anarcha-feminist	^[32]
1800–1874	Harriet Taylor Mill	United Kingdom	1807	1858	Early pioneer feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	John Stuart Mill	United Kingdom	1806	1873	Early Pioneer	^[25]^[35]
1800–1874	Hannah Mitchell	United Kingdom	1872	1956	Socialist feminist; suffragette
1800–1874	Katti Anker Møller	Norway	1868	1945	First-wave feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	Agda Montelius	Sweden	1850	1920	Feminist; suffragette; philanthropist, chairman of the Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet
1800–1874	Anna Maria Mozzoni	Italy	1837	1920	First-wave feminist; suffragette	^[35]
1800–1874	Flora Murray	United Kingdom	1869	1923	Suffragette
1800–1874	Clarina I. H. Nichols	United States	1810	1885	suffragist	^[35]
1800–1874	Draga Obrenović	Serbia	1864	1903	Queen consort;
1800–1874	Louise Otto-Peters	Germany	1819	1895		^[73]^[74]
1800–1874	Emmeline Pankhurst	United Kingdom	1858	1928	Suffragette; one of the founders and the leader of the British suffragette movement	^[25]
1800–1874	Maud Wood Park	United States	1871	1955	Founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president League of Women Voters
1800–1874	Madeleine Pelletier	France	1874	1939	French feminist; Socialist feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	Gabrielle Petit	France	1860	1952	feminist activist, anticlerical, libertarian socialist
1800–1874	Wendell Phillips	United States	1811	1884	Abolitionist, orator, lawyer
1800–1874	Jyotiba Phule	India	1827	1890	Critic of the caste system , founded a school for girls, a widow-remarriage initiative, a home for upper caste widows, and a home for infant girls to discourage female infanticide	^[17]
1800–1874	Eugénie Potonié-Pierre	France	1844	1898		^[32]
1800–1874	Eleanor Rathbone	United Kingdom	1872	1946		^[17]
1800–1874	Élisabeth Renaud	France	1846	1932	Co-founder Groupe Feministe Socialiste	^[75]
1800–1874	Dorothy Richardson	United Kingdom	1873	1957
1800–1874	Edith Rigby	United Kingdom	1872	1948	Suffragette
1800–1874	Bessie Rischbieth	Australia	1874	1967)	Earliest female appointed to any court; early activist against the practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers
1800–1874	Eliza Ritchie	Canada	1856	1933	Prominent suffragist, executive member of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
1800–1874	Harriet Hanson Robinson	United States	1825	1911		^[25]
1800–1874	Pauline Roland	France	1805	1852		^[35]
1800–1874	Rosalie Roos	Sweden	1823	1898	Writer and pioneer of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden
1800–1874	Ernestine Rose	United States, Russia-Poland	1810	1892	Suffragette	^[25]
1800–1874	Hilda Sachs	Sweden	1857	1935	Journalist, writer and feminist
1800–1874	George Sand	France	1804	1876	Early pioneer feminist	^[25]^[35]
1800–1874	Anna Sandström	Sweden	1854	1931	Educational reformer
1800–1874	Auguste Schmidt	Germany	1833	1902		^[76]
1800–1874	Olive Schreiner	South Africa	1855	1920
1800–1874	Rose Scott	Australia	1847	1925	Suffragette
1800–1874	Anna Howard Shaw	United States	1847	1919	President of National Women's Suffrage Association 1904–1915
1800–1874	Kate Sheppard	New Zealand	1848	1934	Influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (the first country and national election in which women were allowed to vote)	^[17]
1800–1874	Tarabai Shinde	India	1850	1910
1800–1874	Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff	United Kingdom	1814	1897	Early pioneer feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick	United Kingdom	1845	1936
1800–1874	Dame Ethel Mary Smyth	United Kingdom	1858	1944	Suffragette
1800–1874	Anna Garlin Spencer	United States	1851	1931		^[25]
1800–1874	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	United States	1815	1902	Social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the International Council of Women	^[25]
1800–1874	Anna Sterky	Sweden, Denmark	1856	1939		^[77]
1800–1874	Helene Stöcker	Germany	1869	1943		^[74]
1800–1874	Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja	Serbia	1828	1878	Feminist; war correspondent; writer; poet	^[78]
1800–1874	Lucy Stone	United States	1818	1893	Orator, organizer of the first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of the Woman's Journal, and first recorded American woman to retain her surname after marriage	^[25]
1800–1874	Emily Howard Stowe	Canada	1831	1903	Physician, advocate for women's inclusion in the medical professional community, founder of the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association
1800–1874	Helena Swanwick	United Kingdom	1864	1939	Suffragette
1800–1874	Frances Swiney	United Kingdom	1847	1922	Suffragette
1800–1874	Táhirih	Iran	1814/17	1852	Bábí poet, theologian, and proponent of women's rights in 19th-century Iran	^[17]
1800–1874	Caroline Testman	Denmark	1839	1919	Co-founder of the Dansk Kvindesamfund
1800–1874	Martha Carey Thomas	United States	1857	1935		^[19]
1800–1874	Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda	United Kingdom	1857	1941	Suffragette
1800–1874	Flora Tristan	France	1803	1844	Socialist feminist	^[17]
1800–1874	Harriet Tubman	United States	1820	1913	First-wave feminist	^[35]
1800–1874	Thorstein Veblen	United States	1857	1929	Economist; sociologist ; male	^[25]
1800–1874	Alice Vickery	United Kingdom	1844	1929	Physician, supporter of birth control as means of emancipation of women	^[79]
1800–1874	Beatrice Webb	United Kingdom	1858	1943	Socialist feminist
1800–1874	Ida B. Wells	United States	1862	1931	Civil rights and anti- suffragist noted for her refusal to avoid media attention because she was African American
1800–1874	Anna Whitlock	Sweden	1852	1930	Feminist, suffragette; school pioneer, journalist
1800–1874	Karolina Widerström	Sweden	1856	1949	Suffragette
1800–1874	Frances Willard	United States	1839	1898	Suffragist and organizer, Socialist feminist; suffragette
1800–1874	Charlotte Wilson	United Kingdom	1854	1944	radical feminist
1800–1874	Victoria Woodhull	United States	1838	1927	First-wave feminist ; suffragist, organizer, innovator, first woman to run for U.S. presidency	^[25]^[35]
1800–1874	Frederick Douglass	United States	c. 1818	1895	Male suffragist	^[25]
1800–1874	Caroline Kauffmann	France	c. 1840s	1924		^[19]
1800–1874	Natalie Zahle	Denmark	1827	1913	Working for women's right to education.	^[80]
1800–1874	Puah Rakovsky	Poland - Israel	1865	1955	Empowerment of women	^[81]

Late 19th-century and early 20th-century feminists

Born between 1875 and 1939.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1875–1939	Bella Abzug	United States	1920	1998	Second-wave feminist	^[19]
1875–1939	Ángela Acuña Braun	Costa Rica	1888	1983		^[19]
1875–1939	Madeleine Albright	United States, Czechoslovakia	1937	–	64th United States Secretary of State, and at the time, the highest ranking woman in US history. She is a staunch supporter of the feminist cause.
1875–1939	Wim Hora Adema	Netherlands	1914	1998	radical feminist	^[82]
1875–1939	Anna Caspari Agerholt	Norway	1892	1943	Educator on women's rights with Norwegian National Women's Council, women's movement historian	^[83]
1875–1939	Alan Alda	United States	1936	–		^[84]
1875–1939	Dolores Alexander	United States	1931	2008	Anti-pornography feminist	^[85]
1875–1939	Maya Angelou	United States	1928	2014	Civil rights activist	^[19]
1875–1939	Margery Corbett Ashby	United Kingdom	1882	1981	Suffragette	^[20]
1875–1939	Ksenija Atanasijević	Serbia	1894	1981	Suffragette; philosopher; first PhD in a Serbian university
1875–1939	Ti-Grace Atkinson	United States	1938	–	Second-wave feminist	^[19]^[35]^[85]
1875–1939	Margaret Atwood	Canada	1939	–	Third-wave feminist	^[19]^[35]
1875–1939	Helene Aylon	United States	1931	2020	Ecofeminist	^[35]^[85]
1875–1939	Eva Bacon	Australia	1909	1994	Feminist and Socialist
1875–1939	Faith Bandler	Australia	1918	2015	Feminist and civil rights activist
1875–1939	Lois W. Banner	United States	1939	–
1875–1939	Thelma Bate	Australia	1904	1984	Community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginal women in Country Women's Association
1875–1939	Rosalyn Baxandall	United States	1939	2015	radical feminist; New York Radical Women
1875–1939	Mary Ritter Beard	United States	1876	1958	Feminist; historian	^[19]^[25]
1875–1939	Joan Beauchamp	United Kingdom	1890	1964	Suffragette
1875–1939	Kay Beauchamp	United Kingdom	1899	1992
1875–1939	Simone de Beauvoir	France	1908	1986	Second-wave feminist ; philosopher; writer	^[19]^[35]
1875–1939	Helen Bentwich	United Kingdom	1892	1972		^[86]
1875–1939	Rosa May Billinghurst	United Kingdom	1875	1953	Suffragette	^[53]
1875–1939	Teresa Billington-Greig	United Kingdom	1877	1964	Suffragette	^[53]
1875–1939	Dorothy Lee Bolden	United States	1923	2002	Trade unionist
1865–1964	Jeanne Bouvier	France	1865	1964	trade unionist	^[87]
1875–1939	Elsie Bowerman	United Kingdom	1889	1973	Suffragette	^[53]
1875–1939	Helen Gurley Brown	United States	1922	2012	Author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan
1875–1939	Stella Browne	Canada	1880	1955	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Susan Brownmiller	United States	1935	–	radical feminist	^[35]^[85]
1875–1939	Katherine Burdekin	United Kingdom	1896	1963
1875–1939	Lucy Burns	United States	1879	1966	Suffragette; suffragist and women's rights activist
1875–1939	Karlyn Kohrs Campbell	United States	1937	–		^[19]
1875–1939	Clara Campoamor	Spain	1888	1972	Suffragette, politician	^[19]^[88]^[89]
1875–1939	Luisa Capetillo	Puerto Rico	1879	1922	Puerto Rican labor union suffragette; jailed for wearing pants in public	^[19]
1875–1939	Liz Carpenter	United States	1920	2010
1875–1939	Elvia Carrillo Puerto	Mexico	1878	1967		^[19]
1875–1939	Florence Fernet-Martel	Canada	1892	1986	Second-wave feminist ; suffragette; educator, mostly active in Quebec	^[90]
1875–1939	Thérèse Casgrain	Canada	1896	1981	Second-wave feminist ; suffragette; politician and senator, mostly active in Quebec	^[19]^[35]
1875–1939	Jacqueline Ceballos	United States	1925	–	Founder of Veteran Feminists of America	^[85]
1875–1939	Enid Charles	United Kingdom	1894	1972	radical feminist
1875–1939	Shirley St Hill Chisholm	United States	1924	2005	Second-wave feminist	^[19]
1875–1939	Hélène Cixous	France	1937	–		^[19]^[35]
1875–1939	Margaret "Gretta" Cousins	Ireland	1878	1954	Irish-Indian suffragist, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
1875–1939	Eva Cox	Australia	1938	–	Sociologist; long-time member of the Women's Electoral Lobby
1875–1939	Jill Craigie	United Kingdom	1911	1999	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Minnie Fisher Cunningham	United States	1882	1964
1875–1939	Thelma Dailey-Stout	United States	1918	2005	Civil rights activist and organizer
1875–1939	Hamid Dalwai	India	1932	1977	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Mary Daly	United States	1928	2010	Ecofeminist	^[35]
1875–1939	Sonja Davies	New Zealand	1923	2005	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Alicia Moreau de Justo	Argentina	1885	1986	Socialist feminist	^[91]
1875–1939	Agnes de Silva	Sri Lanka	1885	1961	Pioneered women's suffrage issues in Sri Lanka.	^[19]
1875–1939	Ana María Pérez del Campo	Spain	1936		Lawyer, feminist and writer, divorce law	^[17]
1875–1939	Barbara Deming	United States	1917	1984
1875–1939	Ezlynn Deraniyagala	Sri Lanka	1908	1973		^[19]
1875–1948	Zoraida Díaz	Panama	1881	1948	Poet, educator, founding member of Panama's first feminist organization	^[92]
1875–1939	Betty Dodson	United States	1929	2020	sex-positive feminist	^[85]
1875–1939	Sediqeh Dowlatabadi	Iran	1882	1962	Journalist and women's rights activist
1875–1939	Carol Downer	United States	1933	–	Second-wave feminist ; founder of women's self-help movement, feminist, author, health activist, attorney	^[35]
1875–1939	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz	United States	1939	–	Radical feminist
1875–1939	Crystal Eastman	United States	1881	1928	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Françoise d'Eaubonne	France	1920	2005	Ecofeminist	^[93]
1875–1939	Esther Eillam	Israel	1939	–	Second-wave feminist, Mizrahi feminist , major founder of Israel's feminist movement
1875–1939	Norah Elam	United Kingdom, Ireland	1878	1961	Radical feminist; suffragette
1875–1939	Cynthia Enloe	United States	1938	–	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Mohtaram Eskandari	Iran	1895	1924	Woman's rights activist, founder of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" ( Society of Patriotic Women
1875–1939	Vilma Espín	Cuba	1930	2007		^[19]
1875–1939	Elizabeth Evatt	Australia	1933	–	Legal reformist and juror; first Australian to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee
1875–1939	Myrlie Evers-Williams	United States	1933	–	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Leonora Eyles	United Kingdom	1889	1960	Author, "agony aunt"
1875–1939	Lidia Falcón	Spain	1935	–		^[19]
1875–1939	Frances Farrer	United Kingdom	1895	1977
1875–1939	Geraldine Ferraro	United States	1935	2011		^[19]
1875–1939	Ana Figuero	Chile	1908	1970		^[19]
1875–1939	Marianne Githens	United States	1936	2018	Political scientist, author	^[94]
1875–1939	Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	United States	1890	1964	Socialist feminist; suffragette
1875–1939	Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford	United States	1918	2011	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Gerald Ford	United States	1913	2006	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Miles Franklin	Australia	1879	1954	Feminist; writer
1875–1939	Clara Fraser	United States	1923	1998	radical feminist
1875–1939	Elisabeth Freeman	United States	1876	1942	Suffragist and civil rights activist, participated in the Suffrage Hikes
1875–1939	Marilyn French	United States	1929	2009	radical feminist	^[35]
1875–1939	Betty Friedan	United States	1921	2006	Second-wave feminist ; writer	^[35]
1875–1939	Carol Gilligan	United States	1936	–	Second-wave feminist	^[35]
1875–1939	Françoise Giroud	France	1916	2003	Journalist, writer, politician	^{[citation needed]}
1875–1939	Judy Goldsmith	United States	1938	–	President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1982 to 1985
1875–1939	Jane Goodall	United Kingdom	1934	–
1875–1939	Vivian Gornick	United States	1935	–	Radical feminist	^[85]
1875–1939	Lois Gould	United States	1931	2002
1875–1939	Jane Grant	United States	1892	1972
1875–1939	Germaine Greer	Australia	1939	–	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Colette Guillaumin	France	1934	2017
1875–1939	Tahar Haddad	Tunisia	1897	1935	Muslim feminist
1875–1939	Lizzy Lind af Hageby	Sweden	1878	1963
1875–1939	Charlotte Haldane	United Kingdom	1894	1969
1875–1939	Gisèle Halimi	France	1927	2020
1875–1939	Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah	India	1921	2000	Muslim feminist
1875–1939	Bertha Harris	United States	1937	2005	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Caroline Haslett	United Kingdom	1895	1957
1875–1939	He Xiangning	China	1878	1972	Revolutionary, feminist
1875–1939	Dorothy Hewett	Australia	1923	2002	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Nicole Hollander	United States	1939	–
1875–1939	Pak Hon-yong	South Korea	1900	1956
1875–1939	Mary Howell	United States	1932	1998
1875–1939	Edith How-Martyn	United Kingdom	1875	1954	Suffragette
1875–1939	Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim	Sudan	1933	2017	Muslim feminist
1875–1939	Fusae Ichikawa	Japan	1893	1981		^[19]
1875–1939	Luce Irigaray	France	1930	–		^[35]
1875–1939	Sonia Johnson	United States	1936	–
1875–1939	Jill Johnston	United States	1929	2010
1875–1939	Claudia Jones	United Kingdom, United States, Trinidad and Tobago	1915	1964	Suffragette
1875–1939	Rosalie Gardiner Jones	United States	1883	1978	Organizer of the Suffrage Hikes
1875–1939	Alice Jouenne	France	1873	1954	First-wave feminist	^[95]
1875–1939	Marie Juchacz	Germany	1879	1956		^[96]
1875–1939	Raden Adjeng Kartini	Indonesia	1879	1904	Muslim feminist; Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamous marriages and lack of education opportunities for women	^[19]
1875–1939	Shidzue Katō	Japan	1897	2001	Second-wave feminist	^[19]
1875–1939	Joséphine Nyssens Keelhoff	Belgium	1833	1917	Feminist, women's rights activist	^[97]
1875–1939	Aoua Kéita	Mali	1912	1980
1875–1939	Florynce Kennedy	United States	1916	2000	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Annie Kenney	United Kingdom	1879	1953	Suffragette
1875–1939	Yamakawa Kikue	Japan	1890	1980	anti-prostitution feminist
1875–1939	Coretta Scott King	United States	1927	2006	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Mabel Ping-Hua Lee	United States	1896	1966	Suffragist; first Chinese woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University
1875–1939	Gerda Lerner	Austria	1920	2013
1875–1939	Audre Lorde	United States	1934	1992	Third-wave feminist	^[19]
1875–1939	Mina Loy	United Kingdom	1882	1966
1875–1939	Rae Luckock	Canada	1893	1972	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda	United Kingdom	1883	1958	Suffragette
1875–1939	Agnes Macphail	Canada	1890	1954
1875–1939	Dora Marsden	United Kingdom	1882	1960
1875–1939	Elizabeth Holloway Marston	United Kingdom	1893	1993
1875–1939	William Moulton Marston	United States	1893	1947
1875–1939	Nicole-Claude Mathieu	France	1937	2014	Empress French feminist; material feminist	^[35]
1875–1939	Else Mayer	Germany	1891	1962	First-wave feminist	^{[citation needed]}
1875–1939	Antonia Maymón	Spain	1881	1959
1875–1939	Carolyn Merchant	United States	1936	–	Ecofeminist
1875–1939	Maria Mies	Germany	1931	–	Ecofeminist ; professor of sociology and author	^[98]
1875–1939	Inez Milholland	United States	1886	1916	Key participant in the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
1875–1939	Kate Millett	United States	1934	2017	Second-wave feminist	^[35]
1875–1939	Laure Moghaizel	Lebanon	1929	1997	Lebanese lawyer and women's rights advocate
1875–1939	Florence Nagle	United Kingdom	1894	1988	Feminist; first woman in Britain to officially train racehorses.	^[99]
1875–1939	Diane Nash	United States	1938	–	1960s Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights proponent
1875–1939	Malak Hifni Nasif	Egypt	1886	1918	Feminist writer	^[100]
1875–1939	Anaïs Nin	United States, France	1903	1977
1875–1939	Helena Normanton	United Kingdom	1882	1957
1875–1939	Alexis Nour	Romania	1877	1940
1875–1939	Yoko Ono	United States, Japan	1933	–
1875–1939	Alicia Ostriker	United States	1937	–	Third-wave feminist
1875–1939	Grace Paley	United States	1922	2007
1875–1939	Adela Pankhurst	United Kingdom	1885	1961
1875–1939	Christabel Pankhurst	United Kingdom	1880	1958	Suffragette; co-founder and leader of the Women's Social and Political Union
1875–1939	Sylvia Pankhurst	United Kingdom	1882	1960	Suffragette
1875–1939	Frances Parker	United Kingdom	1875	1924
1875–1939	Alice Paul	United States	1885	1977	One of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment; founder of 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment
1875–1939	Eva Perón	Argentina	1919	1952		^[17]
1875–1939	Frédérique Petrides	United States, Belgium	1903	1983	Feminist; pioneering orchestral conductor, activist and editor of Women in Music , a series of periodicals chronicling the activities of women in music
1875–1939	Marion Phillips	United Kingdom	1881	1932	Suffragette
1875–1939	Sylvia Plath	United States	1932	1963
1875–1939	Val Plumwood	Australia	1939	2008	Ecofeminism	^[101]
1875–1939	Letty Cottin Pogrebin	United States	1939	–
1875–1939	Eileen Powell	Australia	1913	1997	Trade unionist, women's activist and important contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision
1875–1939	Millicent Preston-Stanley	Australia	1883	1955	First female member of the NSW Legislative Assembly; campaigned for the custodial rights of mothers in divorce and women's healthcare
1875–1939	Lorine Livingston Pruette	United States	1896	1977
1875–1939	Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti	Nigeria	1900	1978	Foremost Nigerian women's rights activist
1875–1939	Claire Rayner	United Kingdom	1931	2010
1875–1939	Adrienne Rich	United States	1929	2012
1875–1939	Mary Richardson	United Kingdom	1889	1961	Suffragette
1875–1939	Léa Roback	Canada	1903	2000	Feminist; workers' union activist tied with the communist party
1875–1939	Hilary Rose	United Kingdom	1935	–
1875–1939	Agnes Maude Royden	United Kingdom	1876	1956	Suffragette
1875–1939	Florence Rush	United States	1918	2008
1875–1939	Joanna Russ	United States	1937	2011	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Diana E. H. Russell	South Africa	1938	2020	anti-pornography feminist
1875–1939	Dora Russell	United Kingdom	1894	1986	Feminist; progressive campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control and female emancipation
1875–1939	Manuel Sacristán	Spain	1925	1985	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Nawal el-Sadaawi	Egypt	1931	2021		^[19]
1875–1939	Idola Saint-Jean	Canada	1880	1945	Suffragette; journalist
1875–1939	Celia Sánchez	Cuba	1920	1980	Early pioneer feminist	^[35]
1875–1939	Ellen Sandelin	Sweden	1862	1907	Physician, lecturer
1875–1939	Flora Sandes	United Kingdom	1876	1956	Feminist Sgt. Major in Serbian Army
1875–1939	Margaret Sanger	United States	1879	1966	Socialist feminist; Founder of American Birth Control League; co-founder and long-time president of Planned Parenthood ; writer, nurse	^[25]
1875–1939	Milunka Savić	Serbia	1888	1973	First European combatant, soldier, feminist
1875–1939	Rosika Schwimmer	Hungary	1877	1948	Pacifist, feminist, suffragist and diplomat
1875–1939	Barbara Seaman	United States	1935	2008
1875–1939	Baroness Seear	United Kingdom	1913	1997
1875–1939	Huda Shaarawi	Egypt	1879	1947	Muslim feminist; organizer for the Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women's social service organization), the Union of Educated Egyptian Women and the Wafdist Women's Central Committee, founder and first president of the Egyptian Feminist Union
1875–1939	Alix Kates Shulman	United States	1932	–	Radical feminist
1875–1939	Ruth Simpson	United States	1926	2008
1875–1939	Monica Sjöö	Sweden	1938	2005	Ecofeminist
1875–1939	Eleanor Smeal	United States	1939	–	Second-wave feminist; organizer, initiator, president of NOW, founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation
1875–1939	Valerie Solanas	United States	1936	1988	Radical feminist
1875–1939	Jo Spence	United Kingdom	1934	1992
1875–1939	Gloria Steinem	United States	1934	–	anti-pornography feminist ; writer
1875–1939	Doris Stevens	United States	1892	1963	Organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author Jailed for Freedom
1875–1939	Sandy Stone	United States	1936	–	Second-wave feminist ; Theorist, author, and performance artist
1875–1939	Marie Stopes	United Kingdom	1880	1958
1875–1939	Mary Stott	United Kingdom	1907	2002
1875–1939	Jessie Street	Australia	1889	1970	Suffragette, feminist; human rights campaigner; influential in labour rights and early days of UN
1875–1939	Louisa Strittmater	United States	1896	1944	Feminist whose division of her estate to the National Woman's Party as listed in her will was controversially contested.	^[102]
1875–1939	Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill	United Kingdom	1901	1980
1875–1939	Maya Surduts	France	1937	2016	Human rights activist, feminist and reproductive rights campaigner	^[103]
1875–1939	Maria Svolou	Greece	1890s	1976	Socialist feminist	^[104]
1875–1939	Elisabeth Tamm	Sweden	1880	1958
1875–1939	Mavis Tate	United Kingdom	1893	1947
1875–1939	Joan Kennedy Taylor	United States	1926	2005
1875–1939	Renee Taylor	New Zealand	1929	–	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Tcheng Yu-hsiu	China	1891	1959	Revolutionary
1875–1939	Rini Templeton	United States	1935	1986	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Dorothy Thompson	United States	1893	1961	Buffalo and New York suffragist, later an influential journalist and radio broadcaster
1875–1939	J. Ann Tickner	United States	1937	–
1875–1939	Winifred Todhunter	United Kingdom	1877	1961
1875–1939	Jill Tweedie	United Kingdom	1936	1993
1875–1939	Mabel Vernon	United States	1883	1975	Suffragist, principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent Sentinels
1875–1939	Roosje Vos	The Netherlands	1876	1961	Trade unionist, suffragist and politician	^[105]
1875–1939	Harriet Shaw Weaver	United Kingdom	1860	1932	Suffragette
1875–1939	Nesta Helen Webster	United Kingdom	1876	1960
1875–1939	Louise Weiss	France	1893	1983	Journalist, writer, politician	^[106]
1875–1939	Trude Weiss-Rosmarin	United States, Germany	1908	1989
1875–1939	Clara Wichmann	Netherlands, Germany,	1885	1922	radical feminist
1875–1939	Audrey Wise	United Kingdom	1935	2000
1875–1939	Monique Wittig	France	1935	2003		^[107]
1875–1939	Nellie Wong	United States	1934	–	Socialist feminist
1875–1939	Virginia Woolf	United Kingdom	1882	1941	First-wave feminist	^[25]^[35]
1875-1939	Sylvia Wynter	Jamaica, United States	1928	–	Black feminist
1875–1939	Molly Yard	United States	1912	2005	Second-wave feminist
1875–1939	Adelina Zendejas	Mexico	1909	1993	Socialist feminist	^[108]
1875–1939	Llibertat Ródenas Rodriguez	Spain	1892	1970	Anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist and militant, member of the Mujeres Libres group	^[109]
1875–1939	Amparo Poch y Gascón	Spain	1902	1968	Doctor by profession and an anarchist, pacifist and feminist activist, one of the co-founders of the Mujeres Libres group	^[110]
1875–1939	Mercè Comaposada	Spain	1901	1994	Lawyer and pedagogue by profession and an anarcho-feminist, one of the co-founders of the Mujeres Libres group	^[111]
1875–1939	Lucía Sánchez Saornil	Spain	1895	1970	Anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist, poet and one of the co-founders of the Mujeres Libres group	^[112]

Mid to late 20th-century feminists

Born between 1940 and 1999.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1940–1999	Zsuzsanna Budapest	Hungary	1940	–	Founder of the female-only tradition of the Dianic Wicca religion	^[113]^[114]
1940–1999	Lesley Abdela	United Kingdom	1945	–	Expert on women's rights and representation	^[19]
1940–1999	Patricia Monaghan	United States	1946	2012	Proponent of the American Goddess movement	^[115]
1940–1999	Brooke Ackerly	United States	1966	–	Expert on feminist international relations , and scholar activism	^[116]^[117]^[118]
1940–1999	Carol J. Adams	United States	1951	–	Ecofeminist	^[119]
1940–1999	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Nigeria & United States	1977	–	Writer, social commentator, feminist author
1940–1999	Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar	United Kingdom	1944	–	Muslim feminist , professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords	^[120]
1940–1999	Leila Ahmed	Egypt	1940	–	Writer on Islamic feminism	^[121]
1940–1999	Sara Ahmed	United Kingdom	1969	–	British-Australian academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism
1940–1999	Widad Akrawi	Denmark	1969	–	Writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality and women's empowerment and participation in peace building and post-conflict governance	^[122]
1940–1999	Linda Martín Alcoff	United States	1955	–	Philosopher at the City University of New York	^[123]
1940–1999	Ayaan Hirsi Ali	United States, Netherlands, Somalia,	1969	–	Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician	^[124]
1940–1999	Pam Allen	United States	1943	–	A founder of New York Radical Women	^[125]
1940–1999	Isabel Allende	Chile, United States	1942	–	Writer	^[126]
1940–1999	Jane Alpert	United States	1947	–	Radical feminist	^[127]
1940–1999	Tori Amos	United States	1963	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Gloria E. Anzaldúa	United States	1942	2004	Third-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Maria Arbatova	USSR	1957	–
1940–1999	Parvin Ardalan	Iran	1967	–	Women's rights activist
1940–1999	Judith Astelarra	Argentina	1943	–	Sociologist specializing in gender studies
1940–1999	Élisabeth Badinter	France	1944	–	Dissident	^[128]^[129]
1940–1999	Raquel Olea	Chile	1944	–	prominent figure of feminism in Chile	^[130]
1940–1999	Judi Bari	United States	1949	1997	Ecofeminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Kathleen Barry	United States	1941	–	Anti-prostitution feminist
1940–1999	Benedetta Barzini	Italy	1943	–	Radical feminist
1940–1999	Jennifer Baumgardner	United States	1970	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Alison Bechdel	United States	1960	–	Cartoonist, author; creator of the Bechdel test
1940–1999	Melissa Benn	United Kingdom	1957	–	Third-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Julie Bindel	United Kingdom	1962	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Kat Blaque	United States	1990	–	Third-wave feminist , Vlogger
1940–1999	Rosie Boycott	United Kingdom	1951	–
1940–1999	Dionne Brand	Canada	1953	–
1940–1999	Giannina Braschi	Puerto Rico	1953	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Johanna Brenner	United States	1942	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Susie Bright	United States	1958	–	Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminism	^[35]
1940–1999	Flora Brovina	Kosovo	1949	–
1940–1999	Rita Mae Brown	United States	1944	–	radical feminist; Redstockings	^[85]
1940–1999	Carrie Brownstein	United States	1974	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Tammy Bruce	United States	1962	–	Dissident feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Charlotte Bunch	United States	1944	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Louise Burfitt-Dons	United Kingdom	1953	–	Conservative feminist
1940–1999	Judith Butler	United States	1956	–	Third-wave feminist	^[19]^[35]
1940–1999	Octavia Butler	United States	1947	2006
1940–1999	Lydia Cacho	Mexico	1963	–
1940–1999	Beatrix Campbell	United Kingdom	1947	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Angela Carter	United Kingdom	1940	1992	Socialist feminist	^[19]
1940–1999	Ana Castillo	United States	1953	–
1940–1999	Phyllis Chesler	United States	1940	–	Feminist author, professor	^[85]
1940–1999	Margaret Cho	United States	1968	–	Third-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Nancy Chodorow	United States	1944	–		^[19]
1940–1999	Hillary Clinton	United States	1947	–
1940–1999	Kurt Cobain	United States	1967	1994	Feminist musician
1940–1999	Susan G. Cole	Canada	1952	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Patricia Hill Collins	United States	1948	–	Black feminist
1940–1999	Sandra Coney	New Zealand	1944	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Noreen Connell	United States	1947	–	radical feminist
1940–1999	Jeanne Córdova	United States	1948	2016	Second-wave feminist ; lesbian and gay rights activist
1940–1999	Rosalind Coward	United Kingdom	1952	–
1940–1999	Laverne Cox	United States	1972	–	Transfeminist	^[131]
1940–1999	Bernadette Cozart	United States	1949	2009	Ecofeminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Nikki Craft	United States	1949	–	anti-pornography feminist; suffragist; one of the main organizers of the Suffrage Hikes	^[35]
1940–1999	Jean Curthoys	Australia	1947	–	Dissident	^[35]
1940–1999	Kimberly Dark	United States	1968	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Françoise David	Canada	1948	–	Feminist; politician
1940–1999	Angela Davis	United States	1944	–	Black feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Geena Davis	United States	1956	–	Actor, founder of Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media	^[132]
1940–1999	Martha Davis	United States	1957	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon	France	1962	–	Third-wave feminist	^{[citation needed]}
1940–1999	Christine Delphy	France	1941	–	material feminist	^[133]
1940–1999	Julie Delpy	France	1969	–		^{[citation needed]}
1940–1999	Mark Dery	United States	1959	–	cyberfeminist
1940–1999	Ani DiFranco	United States	1970	–	Third-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Gail Dines	United Kingdom	1958	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Unity Dow	Botswana	1959	–	Judge and writer; plaintiff in a case that allowed children of Motswana women and foreign men to be considered Batswana
1940–1999	Carol Ann Duffy	United Kingdom	1955	–
1940–1999	Andrea Dworkin	United States	1946	2005	anti-pornography feminist	^[35]^[134]
1940–1999	Shirin Ebadi	Iran	1947	–	Muslim feminist ; activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for her efforts for the rights of women and children
1940–1999	Barbara Ehrenreich	United States	1941	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Beth Elliott	United States	1950	–	Second-wave feminist , folk-singer, activist, and writer
1940-1999	Lindsay Ellis	United States	1984	–	Video Essayist
1940–1999	Misako Enoki	Japan	1945	–	Second-wave feminist	^[135]
1940–1999	Susan Faludi	United States	1959	–	Second-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Fadia Faqir	United Kingdom, Jordan	1956	–
1940–1999	Melissa Farley	United States	1942	–	anti-pornography feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Johanna Fateman	United States	1974	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Kathy Ferguson	United States	1950	–	Individualist feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Shulamith Firestone	Canada	1945	2012	radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Feminists; New York Radical Women	^[35]
1940–1999	Estelle Freedman	United States	1947	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Jo Freeman	United States	1945	–	Second-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Juliette Fretté	United States	1983	–	Sex-positive feminist
1940–1999	Marilyn Frye	United States	1941	–
1940–1999	Antonella Gambotto-Burke	Australia and Great Britain	1965	–	Fourth-wave feminist
1940–1999	Lindsey German	United Kingdom	1951	–
1940–1999	Tavi Gevinson	United States	1996	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Lois Marie Gibbs	United States	1951	–	Ecofeminist
1940–1999	Stan Goff	United States	1951	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Lucy Goodison	United Kingdom	c. 1940s	–
1940–1999	Heide Göttner-Abendroth	Germany	1941	–	Second-wave feminist	^[136]
1940–1999	John Green	United States	1977	–		^[137]
1940–1999	Susan Griffin	United States	1943	–	anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Miss Major Griffin-Gracy	United States	1940	–	Transfeminist
1940–1999	Emily Haines	Canada	1974	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Daphne Hampson	United Kingdom	1944	–
1940–1999	Kathleen Hanna	United States	1968	–	Third-wave feminist; riot grrrl
1940–1999	Donna Haraway	United States	1944	–	Socialist feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Nancy Hartsock	United States	1943	2015	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Rosemary Hennessy	United States	1950	–	Material feminist
1940–1999	Shere Hite	Germany	1942	2020
1940–1999	Sarah Hoagland	United States	1945	–	Anti-pornography feminist	^[138]
1940–1999	Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel	Philippines	1966	–	Filipina women's right activist Philippines
1940–1999	Gillian Howie	United Kingdom	1955	2013
1940–1999	Donna M. Hughes	United States	1954	–	anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Holly Hunter	United States	1958	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Anna Hutsol	UKR	1984	–	FEMEN
1940–1999	Stevi Jackson	United Kingdom	1951	–	Material feminist
1940–1999	Karla Jay	United States	1947	–
1940–1999	Kirthi Jayakumar	India	1987	–	Intersectional Feminist	^[139]
1940–1999	Sheila Jeffreys	Australia	1948	–	anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Robert Jensen	United States	1958	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Joan Jett	United States	1958	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Claire Johnston	United Kingdom	1940	1987
1940–1999	Miranda July	United States	1974	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Mohja Kahf	Syria	1967	–	Muslim feminist
1940–1999	Sheema Kalbasi	Iran	1972	–	Writer and advocate for human rights and gender equality
1940–1999	Wendy Kaminer	United States	1949	–	Sex-positive feminist
1940–1999	Marcelle Karp	United States	1964	–	sex-positive feminist
1940–1999	Roz Kaveney	United Kingdom	1949	–	Transfeminist ; Writer, critic, and poet
1940–1999	Jamie Lauren Keiles	United States	1992	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Lierre Keith	United States	1964	–	Radical feminist
1940–1999	Petra Kelly	Germany	1947	1992	Ecofeminist	^[19]
1940–1999	Jean Kilbourne	United States	1943	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Grace Ji-Sun Kim	United States, South Korea	1969	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Sirje Kingsepp	Estonia	1969	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Barbara Kingsolver	United States	1955	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Anne Klein	Germany	1941	2011	Berlin Senator for women, youth and family
1940–1999	Bonnie Sherr Klein	United States	1941	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Naomi Klein	Canada	1970	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Anne Koedt	United States	1941	–	radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Feminists; New York Radical Women
1940–1999	Elaheh Koulaei	Iran	1956	–	Muslim feminist
1940–1999	Sunitha Krishnan	India	1972	–	Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, an institution that assists trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, giving education and employment
1940–1999	Julia Kristeva	France, Bulgaria	1941	–		^[35]
1940–1999	Winona LaDuke	United States	1959	–	Ecofeminist	^[17]
1940–1999	Laura Lederer	United States	1951	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Ellie Levenson	United Kingdom	1978	–
1940–1999	Ariel Levy	United States	1974	–	anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Olga Lipovskaya	Russia	1954	2021		^[19]
1940–1999	Jacqueline Livingston	United States	1943	2013	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Linda Lovelace	United States	1949	2002	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Wangari Maathai	Kenya	1940	2011	Ecofeminist
1940–1999	Catharine MacKinnon	United States	1946	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Madonna	United States	1958	–	sex-positive feminist
1940–1999	Patricia Mainardi	United States	1942	–	radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women	^[19]
1940–1999	Sara Maitland	United Kingdom	1950	–
1940–1999	Catherine Malabou	France	1959	–
1940–1999	Irshad Manji	Canada	1968	–	Muslim feminist
1940–1999	Soe Tjen Marching	Indonesia	1971	–
1940–1999	Amanda Marcotte	United States	1977	–
1940–1999	Mirjana Marković	Serbia	1942	2019	Politician; writer
1940–1999	Angela Mason	United Kingdom	1944	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Liza Maza	Philippines	1957	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Susan McClary	United States	1946	–
1940–1999	Deirdre McCloskey	United States	1942	–	Feminist economist	^[140]
1940–1999	Wendy McElroy	Canada	1951	–
1940–1999	Patricia McFadden	Swaziland	1952	–	Radical feminist
1940–1999	Angela McRobbie	United Kingdom	1951	–
1940–1999	Rigoberta Menchú	Guatemala	1959	–		^[19]
1940–1999	Fatima Mernissi	Morocco	1940	2015	Muslim feminist
1940–1999	Juliet Mitchell	United Kingdom	1940	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	1941	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Tracey Moberly	United Kingdom	1964	–
1940–1999	Janet Mock	United States	1983	–	Transfeminist	^[141]
1940–1999	Chandra Talpade Mohanty	India	1955	–	Postcolonial and Transnational feminism theorist
1940–1999	Maxine Molyneux	United Kingdom	1948	–
1940–1999	Cherríe Moraga	United States	1952	–
1940–1999	Caitlin Moran	United Kingdom	1975	–
1940–1999	Robin Morgan	United States	1941	–	anti-pornography feminist; New York Radical Women	^[134]
1940–1999	Bonnie J. Morris	United States	1961	–	Feminist scholar, author; women's movement, lesbian culture, and women's music historian
1940–1999	Laura Mulvey	United Kingdom	1941	–
1940–1999	Sally Rowena Munt	United Kingdom	1960	–	Feminist academic and lesbian theorist, author of Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space (1998)
1940–1999	Jenni Murray	United Kingdom	1950	–
1940–1999	Inga Muscio	United States	c. 1966	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Kathy Najimy	United States	1957	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Suniti Namjoshi	India	1941	–	cyberfeminist
1940–1999	Uma Narayan	United States	1958	–	Postcolonial feminist
1940–1999	Taslima Nasrin	Bangladesh	1962	–	Feminist of Muslim origin
1940–1999	Asra Nomani	India	1965	–	Muslim feminist
1940–1999	Isa Noyola	United States	1978	–	Transfeminist , Latina transgender activist and national leader in the LGBT immigrant rights movement
1940–1999	Martha Nussbaum	United States	1947	–
1940–1999	Ann Oakley	United Kingdom	1944	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Sandra Oh	Canada, United States	1971	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Lars Ohly	Sweden	1957	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Terry O'Neill	United States	c. 1953	–
1940–1999	Elliot Page	Canada	1987	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Camille Paglia	United States	1947	–	Dissident feminist, academic, author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)	^[35]
1940–1999	Amanda Palmer	United States	1976	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Carole Pateman	United Kingdom	1940	–
1940–1999	Nancy Paterson (artist)	United States	1953	2010	cyberfeminist
1940–1999	Peaches	Canada	1966	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Sue Perlgut	United States		–	Second-wave feminist ; poet
1940–1999	Vesna Pešić	Serbia	1940	–	Feminist; diplomat; politician
1940–1999	Irene Peslikis	United States	1943	2002	radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women
1940–1999	Liz Phair	United States	1967	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Mary Pipher	United States	1947	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Katha Pollitt	United States	1949	–
1940–1999	Griselda Pollock	Canada	1949	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Soraya Post	Sweden	1956	–
1940–1999	Anastasia Powell	Australia	1982	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Manasi Pradhan	India	1962	–
1940–1999	Sharon Presley	United States	1943	–	Individualist feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Maria Raha	United States	1972	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Janice Raymond	United States	1943	–	anti-prostitution feminist
1940–1999	Bernice Johnson Reagon	United States	1942	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Helen Reddy	United States, Australia,	1941	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Tucker Reed	United States	1989	–	Student leader in the Title IX and campus rape awareness movement, founder of the national organization Student Coalition Against Rape; author of books notable for their realistic depiction of characters with social development disorders
1940–1999	Elizabeth Anne Reid	Australia	1942	–	World's first advisor on women's affairs to a head of state (Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and active on women's development for the UN; also prominent in HIV activism
1940–1999	Abby Rockefeller	United States	1943	–	Radical feminist
1940–1999	Ninotchka Rosca	Philippines	1946	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Jacqueline Rose	United Kingdom	1949	–
1940–1999	Sheila Rowbotham	United Kingdom	1943	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Gayle Rubin	United States	1949	–	Sex-positive feminist; Queer theorist
1940–1999	Alzira Rufino	Brazil	1949	–	Feminist and activist associated with the Black Movement
1940–1999	Shadi Sadr	Iran	1975	–	Women's rights activist
1940–1999	Gita Sahgal	United Kingdom, India	1956/7	–
1940–1999	Sarojini Sahoo	India	1956	–
1940–1999	JD Samson	United States	1978	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Michael Sandel	United States	1953	–
1940–1999	Justin Sane	United States, Ireland	1973	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Thomas Sankara	Burkina Faso	1949	1987
1940–1999	Kathie Sarachild	United States	1943	–	radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women
1940–1999	Anita Sarkeesian	United States, Canada	1983	–
1940–1999	Marjane Satrapi	France, Iran	1969	–	Muslim feminist	^[142]
1940–1999	John Scalzi	United States	1969	–		^[143]
1940–1999	Alice Schwarzer	Germany	1942	–	anti-pornography feminist ; journalist and publisher of the magazine Emma
1940–1999	Gudrun Schyman	Sweden	1948	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Lynne Segal	Australia	1944	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Julia Serano	United States	1967	–	Transfeminist	^[144]
1940–1999	Shamima Shaikh	South Africa	1960	1998	South African activist, member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, proponent of Islamic gender equality
1940–1999	Shahla Sherkat	Iran	1956	–	Muslim feminist ; journalist
1940–1999	Vicki Shiran	Israel	1947	2004	Mizrahi feminist
1940–1999	Vandana Shiva	India	1952	–	Ecofeminist
1940–1999	Elaine Showalter	United States	1941	–
1940–1999	Ann Simonton	United States	1952	–	anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Carol Smart	United Kingdom	1948	–
1940–1999	Barbara Smith	United States	1946	–
1940–1999	Joan Smith	United Kingdom	1953	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Valerie Smith	Canada	1956	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Kate Smurthwaite	United Kingdom	1975	–
1940–1999	Cornelia Sollfrank	Germany	1960	–	cyberfeminist
1940–1999	Patricia Soltysik	United States	1950	1974	Radical feminist
1940–1999	Christina Hoff Sommers	United States	1950	–	Dissident	^[35]
1940–1999	Kate Soper	United Kingdom	1943	–
1940–1999	Donita Sparks	United States	1963	–	Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl
1940–1999	Dale Spender	Australia	1943	2023	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Charlene Spretnak	United States	1946	–	Ecofeminist
1940–1999	Annie Sprinkle	United States	1954	–	Sex-positive feminist
1940–1999	Starhawk	United States	1951	–	Ecofeminist
1940–1999	Patrick Stewart	United Kingdom	1940	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	John Stoltenberg	United States	1944	–	anti-pornography feminist
1940–1999	Nadine Strossen	United States	1950	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Anne Summers	Australia	1945	–	Women's rights activist; women's advisor to Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating and editor of Ms. magazine (New York)
1940–1999	Cathy Harkin	Northern Ireland	1942	1985	Women's refuge
1940–1999	Karlina Leksono Supelli	Indonesia	1958	–
1940–1999	Kazimiera Szczuka	Poland	1966	–
1940–1999	Lili Taylor	United States	1967	–	Third-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Roya Toloui	Iran	1966	–	Women's rights activist
1940–1999	Corin Tucker	United States	1972	–	Third-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Robin Tunney	United States	1972	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Urvashi Vaid	United States, India	1958	–
1940–1999	Tobi Vail	United States	1969	–	Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl
1940–1999	Jessica Valenti	United States	1978	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Virginia Vargas	Peru	1945	–		^[145]
1940–1999	Norah Vincent	United States	1968	–	Dissident feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Hilary Wainwright	United Kingdom	1949	–	Socialist feminist
1940–1999	Alice Walker	United States	1944	–	Black feminist
1940–1999	Rebecca Walker	United States	1969	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Michele Wallace	United States	1952	–	Second-wave feminist
1940–1999	Natasha Walter	United Kingdom	1967	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–1999	Peng Wan-ru	Taiwan	1949	1996
1940–1999	Gloria Jean Watkins	United States	1952	–	Black feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Emma Watson	England	1990	–	Actor, feminist, United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador	^[146]
1940–1999	Joss Whedon	United States	1964	–	Male feminist	^[147]^[148]
1940–1999	Faith Wilding	United States, Paraguay	1943	–	cyberfeminist
1940–1999	Ellen Willis	United States	1941	2006	sex-positive feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women
1940–1999	Oprah Winfrey	United States	1954	–	Second-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Valerie Wise	United Kingdom	1955	–
1940–1999	Naomi Wolf	United States	1962	–	Dissident feminist; Third-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–1999	Allison Wolfe	United States	1969	–	Third-wave feminist	^[149]
1940–1999	Elizabeth Wurtzel	United States	1967	2020
1940–1999	Cathy Young	United States, Russia	1963	–		^[150]
1940–1999	Malala Yousafzai	Pakistan	1997	–	Pakistani feminist activist for female education	^[151]
1940–1999	Stasa Zajovic	Serbia	1953	–	Co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black	^[152]
1940–1999	Julie Zeilinger	United States	1993	–	Third-wave feminist	^[153]

Notable 20th and 21st-century feminists

Birth year is currently unavailable.

Period (birth)	Name	Country	Born	Died	Comments	Source
1940–2024	Lorraine Bethel	United States	20th century	–	Second-wave feminist	^[35]
1940–2024	Lauran Bethell	United States	20th century	–	Anti-prostitution feminist
1940–2024	Sandra Bloodworth	Australia	20th century	–	Labour historian, socialist activist, co-founder of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative, editor of Marxist Left Review
1940–2024	D. A. Clarke	United States	20th century	–	Radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist	^[35]
1940–2024	Mary Clark-Glass	United Kingdom	20th century	–
1940–2024	Carol Cohn	United States	20th century	–	Gender and armed conflict
1940–2024	Donna Dresch	United States	20th century	–	Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl
1940–2024	Gunilla Ekberg	Sweden	20th century	–	Anti-prostitution feminist
1940–2024	Mary Flanagan	United States	20th century	–	cyberfeminist
1940–2024	Deborah Frances-White	Australia and Great Britain	20th century	–	Stand-up comedian; Feminist in the community of Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses	^[154]
1940–2024	Carol Hanisch	United States	20th century	–	radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women	^[35]
1940–2024	Luzviminda Ilagan	Philippines	20th century	–	Socialist feminist
1940–2024	Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani	Iran	20th century	–	Muslim feminist
1940–2024	Andrew Kooman	Canada	20th century	–	anti-pornography feminist
1940–2024	Peggy Kornegger	United States	20th century	–
1940–2024	Donna Laframboise	Canada	20th century	–	Dissident feminist	^[35]
1940–2024	Paris Lees	United Kingdom	20th century	–	Transfeminist , journalist, presenter, and transgender rights activist	^[155]
1940–2024	Dorchen Leidholdt	United States	20th century	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–2024	Kristin Lems	United States	20th century	–	Activist, singer/songwriter	^[156]^[157]
1940–2024	Sara Hlupekile Longwe	Zambia	20th century	–	radical feminist
1940–2024	Joanna Maycock	Belgium and Great Britain	20th century	–	European women's rights campaigner	^[158]
1940–2024	Jamie McIntosh	Canada	20th century	–	Lawyer and women's rights activist
1940–2024	Page Mellish	United States	20th century	–	Anti-pornography feminist
1940–2024	Honor Moore	United States	20th century	–
1940–2024	Meghan Murphy	Canada	20th century	–	Journalist; radical feminist; anti-sex industry feminist
1940-2024	Nalini Nayak	India	20th century	—
1940–2024	Benjamin Nolot	United States	20th century	–	Anti-prostitution feminist
1940–2024	Jerilynn Prior	Canada	20th century	–
1940–2024	Kathy Rudy	United States	20th century	–	Ecofeminist
1940–2024	Debbie Stoller	United States	20th century	–	sex-positive feminist
1940–2024	Lucy Suchman	United Kingdom	20th century	–	cyberfeminist
1940–2024	Helen Sworn	United Kingdom	20th century	–	Anti-prostitution feminist
1940–2024	Kajsa Wahlberg	Sweden	20th century	–	Anti-prostitution feminist ; Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities
1940–2024	Warcry	United States	20th century	–	Radical feminist
1940–2024	Kaia Wilson	United States	20th century	–	Third-wave feminist
1940–2024	Alice Wolfson	United States	20th century	–
1940–2024	Sande Zeig	United States	20th century	–		^[159]
1940–2023	Rita Puspa Zakaria	Indonesia	20th century	–	Muslim civil servant and women's rights activist	^[160]

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^
ISBN 9780873958592
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JSTOR 2709162
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^ Begiato, Joanne (31 May 2014). "'Let Them Talk': A Newcastle Lady in the Eighteenth Century". Joanne Begiato (Bailey) Muses on History. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

^
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ISBN 080-5-7723-08
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^ Daggett, Windsor (1920). A Down-East Yankee From the District of Maine. Portland, Maine: A.J. Huston. p. 30.

^ "Det i mandfolksklæder, vidt bereiste Fruentimmer, E.M.Stokkenbeck" (in Danish). Vidensbanken om kønsidentitet. Retrieved 20 March 2020.

OCLC 874557477
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^ ^a ^b Dooley, Dolores (1996). Equality in Community: Sexual Equality in the Writings of William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press.

ISBN 9780198029175
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^ "Altmann-Gottheiner, Elisabeth". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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^
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^ "Anderson, Maybanke (1845–1927)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Meredith, Suzanne M. (20 August 2008). "The Kilmer Legacy – 100 percent proof characters". Antique Trader. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ "Edith Jessie Archibald, (1854–1936)". Parks Canada. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Cooke, Rachel (28 December 2013). "The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Faust, Drew Gilpin (1 August 1999). "Fatal Attraction".

^ Zolghadr, Shahnaz (30 September 2015). "50 Iranian Women you Should Know: Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi". Iran Wire. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ "Aston, Louise". Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Anderton, Frances (30 April 2014). "Llano Del Rio and the Architect Who Tried to Design Away Housework; With Avishay Artsy". Design & Architecture. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

ISBN 9780822973393
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PMID 14390242
.

ISBN 1-84275-033-X

^
ISBN 9781134589579
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ISBN 978-9547960183
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^ "LENSING, Wilhelmina Elisabeth | BWSA".

ISBN 9780226721248
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^ Musnik, Roger (25 June 2018). "Marie-Louise Gagneur (1832–1902)" (in French). Gallica. Retrieved 28 December 2018 – via Bibliothèque nationale de France.

ISBN 978-0-8263-0382-0
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^ "Конради Евгения Ивановна (урожденная Бочечкарова) Великие люди России" [Konradi, Evgeniya Ivanovna (nee Bochechkarova): Great Russians]. Great Russians (in Russian). Retrieved 11 June 2017.

ISBN 9780889461185
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^
ISBN 9780826412812
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OCLC 1167137674
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ISBN 9780415629850
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^ Stevenson, Micaela (5 August 2014). "A Biography of Anna Sterky". The Feminist Observer. Archived from the original on 17 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Dojinovi, Biljana. "Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja, Serbian writer, 1828–1878". Women Writers. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ "Alice Vickery". Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Birgitte Possing (1992). "Natalie Zahle (1827 - 1913)". Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon. KVINFO. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

^ Paula E. Hyman. "Puah Rakovsky". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 22 November 2019.

^ Agerbeek, Marjan (2 October 2001). "Dinosaurs of the second wave of feminism". Trouw. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

ISBN 978-82-8226-112-8
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^ Hoffman, Jordan (15 October 2015). "Alan Alda Knows His Feminist History". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^
ISBN 9780252031892
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^ Lehrer, Natasha. "Helen Bentwich". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Jeanne Bouvier, Mes Mémoires, ou, 59 années d'activité industrielle, sociale et intellectuelle d'une ouvrière, La Découverte/Maspero, 1983 (in French)

^ Blas, Elsa García de (23 May 2019). "The day that women took over Spanish Congress". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

ISBN 978-0-313-32444-4
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^ "À la mémoire de grandes femmes d'ici". La Presse (in French). 13 March 2016.

ISBN 9780313308901
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^ "Zoraida Díaz". panamapoesia.com. Retrieved 1 May 2024.

ISBN 9780816630974
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^ Kelly, Jacques (5 March 2018). "Marianne Githens, retired Goucher professor, dies". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

S2CID 244174957
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ISBN 9780813529059
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^ Matkava, Sophie, "Engagements féminins", Sextant, vol. 9, Groupe interdisciplinaire d’Études sur les femmes de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, 1998, pp. 115–150.

ISBN 9780742526983
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ISBN 9781134912773
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ISBN 9780691026053
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^ Martin Mulligan, Stuart Hill, Ecological Pioneers, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 274–300.

^ Perlin, Michael L. and Pamela Champine. "Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The "Sanist" Factor - An Interdisciplinary Approach." Archived 2006-09-05 at the Wayback Machine 46 New York Law School Law Review 573 (2002–2003).

^ Luyssen, Johanna (13 April 2016). "Décès de Maya Surduts, féministe historique, humaniste indocile" [Death of Maya Surduts, historical feminist, intractable humanist]. Libération (in French). Paris, France. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

ISBN 9637326391
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^ Waalkens, Marijke (13 January 2014). "Vos, Roosje (1860–1932)". Huygens ING (in Dutch). University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2017.

ISBN 9781576071014
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ISBN 9780802081926
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JSTOR 42624163
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^ "Llibertat Ródenas Rodríguez". Departament de la Presidència (in Catalan). Retrieved 15 December 2022.

^ Rodrigo, Antonina. “Amparo Poch y Gascón: La Doctora Libre.” El Periódico, 15 Apr. 2018, www.elperiodico.com/es/mas-periodico/20180414/amparo-poch-gascon-doctora-libre-6750793.

ISBN 978-0-415-63681-0
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^ Green, Kat (15 August 2019). "THE WOMAN WHO WATCHED SPAIN FALL (THEY AREN'T FAMOUS #1)". Medium. Retrieved 15 December 2022.

ISBN 0-914728-67-9
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ISBN 0-8070-3237-9
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^ "The Goddess Movement". BBC. 25 October 2004. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

^ "Regular Faculty: Brooke A. Ackerly". Department of Political Science. Vanderbilt University. 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.

ISBN 978-1137590800
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ISBN 0521650194
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S2CID 143871465. Pdf.

^ "Kaberry Lecture: peace and reconstruction in the Middle East: Where are the women?". forced migration online, University of Oxford. 27 May 2009. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.

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^ Kelly, Linda (22 October 2014). "Dr. Widad Akrawi Receives the Pfeffer Peace Award". Archived from the original on 19 October 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.

^ Wilson, Robin (14 January 2014). "Women challenge male philosophers to make room in unfriendly field". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 59 (19): A1–A6.

^ Callahan, Maureen (22 March 2015). "'In Islam, they are all rotten apples': Ex-Muslim's call for religion's reboot". Retrieved 27 June 2015.

Allen, Pam (March 1968). "Radical Women and the Rankin Brigade"
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ISBN 9780006552321

^ Alpert, Jane. Mother Right: A New Feminist Theory. Duke University Libraries, Digital Collections. Having gone underground three years ago as a committed leftist, and since become a radical feminist, I regard this piece as a distillation of what I have learned in these three years.

ISBN 9781135360238
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^ Audet, Elaine (1 October 2003). "Elisabeth Badinter distorts feminism the better to fight it".

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^ Olivia Fleming, Laverne Cox and Rosario Dawson Get Real About Intersectional Feminism, 8 October 2018, Harper's Bazaar

^ "GEENA DAVIS Talks Gender Equality in... – Amy Poehler's Smart Girls | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 26 May 2016.

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ISBN 9781483341453
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ISSN 0261-3077
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^ Irene van Staveren, Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man, in the Journal of Economic Issues 35(1):219–221 (March 2001)

^ Victora Ottomanelli, Janet Mock is a transgender best-selling author, activist and feminist, 28 March 2018, WPTZ

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^ McCann, Erin (27 August 2013). "John Scalzi: The Internet's Troll-Slayer". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

^ Jeanne Carstensen, Julia Serano, Transfeminist Thinker, Talks Trans-Misogyny, 22 June 2017, The New York Times

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^ Emma Watson at the HeForShe Campaign 2014 – Official UN Video. 22 September 2014. Event occurs at 2:52–2:57. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2016 – via YouTube.

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^ Maura Johnston, Bratmobile’s Allison Wolfe on Riot Grrrl History, New Wave of Feminist Punk 12 October 2016, Rolling Stone

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^ Zajovic, Stasa. "Transitional Justice – Feminist Approach". Zene u Crnom. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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^ Stanford, Peter (15 September 2016). "Ex-Jehovah's Witness Deborah Frances-White on door knocking with Michael Jackson and ditching the 'cult'". The Telegraph.

^ Paris Lees, Why I'm trans … and a feminist, 18 January 2013, The Guardian

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[1] ISBN 9780472082605
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[Ndreca-2] Ndreca, Ardian (14 September 2008). "Rrënojat e Abacisë së Shirgjit dhe shpëtimi i tyne". Gazeta 55 (in Albanian). Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

[Akkerman_2013-3] 
ISBN 9781134744350
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[4] ISBN 9780521834452
.

[5] ISBN 9780226100135
.

[6] OCLC 3713900
.

[7] Piera, Montasrrat (2006). "Mary Magdalene's Iconographical Redemption in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi and the Speculum Animae Montserrat Piera" (PDF). Catalan Review. pp. 313–328. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2020.

[8] Twomey, Lesly (2003). Sor Isabel de Villena, her Vita Christi and an Example of Gendered Immaculist Writing in the Fifteenth Century. La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. pp. 89–103.

[9] Colmán Gutiérrez, Andrés (5 December 2020). "En busca de la India Juliana". Última Hora (in Spanish). Asunción. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[10] Schvartzman, Gabriela (19 September 2020). "Relatos sobre la India Juliana. Entre la construcción de la memoria y la ficción histórica". Periódico E'a (in Spanish). Asunción: Atycom. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[11] ISSN 2591-5894. Retrieved 16 January 2022 – via Zenodo
.

[12] Santos, Natalia (25 September 2021). "Heroica: Remeras con historia y valentía femenina". El Nacional. Asunción: Editorial RD. Retrieved 16 January 2022.

[13] ISBN 9780226010601. Online.

[14] OCLC 646661464. Online.

[15] ISBN 2907883097
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[16] ISBN 9780226256825. Preview.

[Wayne_2011-17] 
ISBN 9780313345807
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[18] ISBN 9780674017535
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[Boles_2004-19] 
ISBN 9780810849464
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[Hartley_2013-20] 
ISBN 9781135355333
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[21] ISBN 9780813914435
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[22] ISBN 9780761846093
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[23] ISBN 9122021574
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[24] ISBN 2853550001
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[Schneir_2012-25] 
ISBN 9781448139651
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[26] Larsson, Lisbeth (13 August 2011). "My Dear Sister and Incomparable Friend!". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Kvinfo. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

[27] ISBN 8774928848
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[:0-28] Dixon, Anne Campbell (4 May 2002). "Wales: A Tale of Two Ladies Ahead of Their Time". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

[DeLamotte_1997-29] ISBN 9780415915304
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[dePauw-30] ISBN 9780806131009
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[Stephens_2000-31] ISBN 9780521581677
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[Moses_1984-32] 
ISBN 9780873958592
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[Goldstein_1982-33] JSTOR 2709162
.

[34] Begiato, Joanne (31 May 2014). "'Let Them Talk': A Newcastle Lady in the Eighteenth Century". Joanne Begiato (Bailey) Muses on History. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

[Tandon_2008-35] 
ISBN 9788126908882
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[36] ISBN 9780559151927
.

[Easley_2004-37] ISBN 978-0754630562
.

[Warme_1996-38] ISBN 9780803247505
.

[39] ISBN 9780812222791
.

[40] ISBN 978-1-61148-420-5
.

[41] ISBN 080-5-7723-08
.

[42] Daggett, Windsor (1920). A Down-East Yankee From the District of Maine. Portland, Maine: A.J. Huston. p. 30.

[43] "Det i mandfolksklæder, vidt bereiste Fruentimmer, E.M.Stokkenbeck" (in Danish). Vidensbanken om kønsidentitet. Retrieved 20 March 2020.

[44] OCLC 874557477
.

[Dooley_1996-45] Dooley, Dolores (1996). Equality in Community: Sexual Equality in the Writings of William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press.

[Anderson_2000-46] ISBN 9780198029175
.

[47] ISBN 9781443803014
.

[Manns_2004-48] ISBN 978-0804747646
.

[Tierney_1999-49] ISBN 9780313310737
.

[50] "Altmann-Gottheiner, Elisabeth". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[Tarrant_2009-51] ISBN 9780786744640
.

[Österberg_1990-52] ISBN 9789187896033
.

[Crawford_2003-53] 
ISBN 9781135434021
.

[54] "Anderson, Maybanke (1845–1927)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[55] Meredith, Suzanne M. (20 August 2008). "The Kilmer Legacy – 100 percent proof characters". Antique Trader. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[56] "Edith Jessie Archibald, (1854–1936)". Parks Canada. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[57] Cooke, Rachel (28 December 2013). "The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[58] Faust, Drew Gilpin (1 August 1999). "Fatal Attraction".

[59] Zolghadr, Shahnaz (30 September 2015). "50 Iranian Women you Should Know: Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi". Iran Wire. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[60] "Aston, Louise". Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[61] Anderton, Frances (30 April 2014). "Llano Del Rio and the Architect Who Tried to Design Away Housework; With Avishay Artsy". Design & Architecture. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[62] ISBN 9780822973393
.

[63] PMID 14390242
.

[64] ISBN 1-84275-033-X

[McMillan_2002-65] 
ISBN 9781134589579
.

[Nazarska_2006-66] ISBN 978-9547960183
.

[67] "LENSING, Wilhelmina Elisabeth | BWSA".

[Roberts_2002-68] ISBN 9780226721248
.

[BNF2-69] Musnik, Roger (25 June 2018). "Marie-Louise Gagneur (1832–1902)" (in French). Gallica. Retrieved 28 December 2018 – via Bibliothèque nationale de France.

[70] ISBN 978-0-8263-0382-0
.

[Applewhite_1993-71] ISBN 9780472064137
.

[great-72] "Конради Евгения Ивановна (урожденная Бочечкарова) Великие люди России" [Konradi, Evgeniya Ivanovna (nee Bochechkarova): Great Russians]. Great Russians (in Russian). Retrieved 11 June 2017.

[Diethe_2002-73] ISBN 9780889461185
.

[Herminghouse_2001-74] 
ISBN 9780826412812
.

[Sowerwine1982p-75] OCLC 1167137674
.

[Evans_2012-76] ISBN 9780415629850
.

[77] Stevenson, Micaela (5 August 2014). "A Biography of Anna Sterky". The Feminist Observer. Archived from the original on 17 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[78] Dojinovi, Biljana. "Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja, Serbian writer, 1828–1878". Women Writers. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[79] "Alice Vickery". Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[80] Birgitte Possing (1992). "Natalie Zahle (1827 - 1913)". Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon. KVINFO. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

[81] Paula E. Hyman. "Puah Rakovsky". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 22 November 2019.

[Agerbeek_2001-82] Agerbeek, Marjan (2 October 2001). "Dinosaurs of the second wave of feminism". Trouw. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

[Erichsen2017-83] ISBN 978-82-8226-112-8
.

[84] Hoffman, Jordan (15 October 2015). "Alan Alda Knows His Feminist History". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[Love_2006-85] 
ISBN 9780252031892
.

[86] Lehrer, Natasha. "Helen Bentwich". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[87] Jeanne Bouvier, Mes Mémoires, ou, 59 années d'activité industrielle, sociale et intellectuelle d'une ouvrière, La Découverte/Maspero, 1983 (in French)

[88] Blas, Elsa García de (23 May 2019). "The day that women took over Spanish Congress". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[89] ISBN 978-0-313-32444-4
.

[90] "À la mémoire de grandes femmes d'ici". La Presse (in French). 13 March 2016.

[Walter_2001-91] ISBN 9780313308901
.

[92] "Zoraida Díaz". panamapoesia.com. Retrieved 1 May 2024.

[Sandilands_1999-93] ISBN 9780816630974
.

[:02-94] Kelly, Jacques (5 March 2018). "Marianne Githens, retired Goucher professor, dies". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

[GachetSeguy2021-95] S2CID 244174957
. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

[Gerhard_2001-96] ISBN 9780813529059
.

[frwp:Matkava-97] Matkava, Sophie, "Engagements féminins", Sextant, vol. 9, Groupe interdisciplinaire d’Études sur les femmes de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, 1998, pp. 115–150.

[Eaton_2003-98] ISBN 9780742526983
.

[Hargreaves_2002-99] ISBN 9781134912773
.

[100] ISBN 9780691026053
.

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