feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement, feminism - the movement aimed at equal rights for women

crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist - a disputant who advocates reform

suffragette - a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)

Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir - French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)

Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Friedan - United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, Gilman - United States feminist (1860-1935)

Lucretia Coffin Mott, Mott - United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)

Alice Paul, Paul - United States feminist (1885-1977)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Stanton - United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)

Gloria Steinem, Steinem - United States feminist (born in 1934)

Lucy Stone, Stone - United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

Sojourner Truth, Truth - United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Wollstonecraft - English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)

Fanny Wright, Frances Wright, Wright - United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)