List Of Feminists

Early pioneers

• Abigail Adams (1744-1818), First Lady of the United States
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
• Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), first female physician in the U.S.A.
• Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), Queen
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
• George Sand (1804-1876), French Novelist
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

First-wave feminists

• Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874-1930), German university lecturer
• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), American suffragette
• Hubertine Auclert
• Rachel Foster Avery
• Marie Bashkirtseff
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Fredrika Bremer
• Antoinette Brown
• Lucy Burns
• Frances Jennings Casement
• Francis Power Cobbe
• Maria Deraismes
• Marguerite Durand
• Emma Goldman
• Olympe de Gouges
• Sarah Grimke
• Angelina Emily Grimke
• Marianne Hainisch
• Julia Ward Howe
• Mary Livermore
• Nellie McClung
• Rosa Mayreder
• Lucretia Mott
• Anna Maria Mozzoni
• Clarina I.H. Nichols
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Sylvia Pankhurst
• Alice Paul
• Marion Phillips
• Ernestine Rose
• Sverine
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucy Stone
• Marie Stopes
• Sojurner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Victoria Woodhull
• Virginia Woolf
• Frances Wright

Second-wave feminists

• Simone de Beauvoir
• Lorraine Bethel
• Susan Brownmiller
• Charlotte Bunch
• Thrse Casgrain
• Mary Daly
• Angela Davis
• Andrea Dworkin
• Susan Faludi
• Shulamith Firestone
• Jo Freeman
• Marilyn French
• Betty Friedan
• Carol Gilligan
• Germaine Greer
• Donna Haraway
• Nancy Hartsock
• Dorothy Hewett
• Jacqueline Livingston
• Catharine MacKinnon
• Kate Millett
• Cherrie Moraga
• Robin Morgan
• Bernice Johnson Reagon
• Erin Pizzey
• Sheila Rowbotham
• Margaret Sanger
• Alice Schwarzer
• Gloria Steinem

Third-wave feminists

• bell hooks
• Gloria E. Anzalda
• Rebecca Walker
• Molly Yard

Ecofeminists

• Carol J. Adams
• Helene Aylon
• Judi Bari
• Bernadette Cozart
• Franoise d'Eaubonne
• Mary Rose de Valladares
• Lois Marie Gibbs
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Susan Griffin
• Petra Kelly
• Anna Kingsford
• Winona LaDuke
• Wangari Maathai
• Vandana Shiva
• Charlene Spretnak
• Starhawk

Dissident feminists

• Donna LaFramboise
• Wendy McElroy
• Camile Paglia
• Christina Hoff Sommers
• Naomi Wolf

French feminists

• Olympe Audouard
• Hubertine Auclert
• Marie Bashkirtseff
• Helene Cixous
• Maria Deraismes
• Marguerite Durand
• Olympe de Gouges
• Gyp
• Luce Irigaray
• Julia Kristeva
• Andr Leo
• Madeleine Pelletier
• Pauline Roland
• Sverine
• Flora Tristan
• Eugenie Potonie-Pierre
• Monique Wittig

Lesbian feminists

• Judith Butler
• Audre Lorde
• Adrienne Rich
• Kathy Rudy
• Monique Wittig

Muslim Feminists

• Qasim Amin
• Shirin Ebadi
• Fatima Mernissi
• Nawal el-Sadaawi
• Huda Shaarawi

Latina Feminists

• Gloria E. Anzalda
• Cherrie Moraga
• Ana Castillo

Other feminists

• Lois W. Banner, U.S. feminist, famous for writing the book which served as the basis for the commercially successful 1999 movie American Beauty (which helped bring feminist issues to a new generation)
• Annie Besant
• Flora Brovina
• Betty Ford
• Susan McClary
• William Moulton Marston
• Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures

External links

• National Women's History Project
• FemBio - Notable Women International

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