Title: List of feminists Content: This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism. == Feminists == * Lesley Abdela, British feminist fl. 2010 * Abigail Adams (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States * Jane Addams (1860–1935) * Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895) * Alfhild Agrell (1849–1923) * Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex * Catharina Ahlgren (1734–1783), Swedish journalist and feminist * Linda Martín Alcoff * Alan Alda, U.S. actor (M*A*S*H* and The West Wing) who campaigned for Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and early 1980s * Soteria Aliberty, Greek educator and writer * Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German university lecturer * Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833–1898), Swedish feminist * Adelaide Anderson (1863–1936), British * Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), British physician and suffragist * Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943), British physician and suffragette * Jane Anger, author of Her Protection for Women, London: Printed by Richard Jones, and Thomas Orwin. 1589. * Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette * Anti-Flag, self-proclaimed feminists, who have written songs including Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain) * Gloria E. Anzaldúa * Maria Arbatova (born 1957), leading Russian feminist * Lovisa Årberg (1801–1881), first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden * Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), activist, writer, thinker, pioneer, and founder of the feminist movement in Spain * Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), British * Ottilie Assing * Mary Astell (c. 1666–1731), author of Serious Proposal to the Ladies * Hubertine Auclert * Rachel Foster Avery * Lois W. Banner, U.S. historian * Marie Bashkirtseff * Anna Bayerová (1853–1924), second Czech female physician * Lydia Becker (1827–1890), British suffrage campaigner * Catharine Beecher (1800–1878), American educator and author * Helen Bentwich (1892–1972), British Chair of London County Council * Signe Bergman (1869–1960), Swedish suffrage leader * Annie Besant * Julie Bindel, Guardian columnist and a campaigner against male violence, sex trafficking, and rape * Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953), British suffragette * Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964), British founder of the Women's Freedom League * Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first female physician in the U.S. * Barbara Bodichon * Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973) * Anne Bradstreet * Fredrika Bremer * Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1724), Swedish salonist and poet * Ursula Mellor Bright‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography * Emilia Broomé, Swedish politician * Flora Brovina * Antoinette Brown * Susan Brownmiller * Katherine Burdekin * Lucy Burns * Katharine Bushnell * Josephine Butler (1828–1906), British * Lydia Cacho * Liz Carpenter, a founder of the National Women's Political Caucus * Frances Jennings Casement * Ana Castillo * Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's rights activist * Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish feminist * Enid Charles (1894–1972) * Phyllis Chesler * Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), Queen * Alice Whitcomb Clark * Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879), English artist and author * Voltairine de Cleyre * Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and now Secretary of State and U.S. politician * Kurt Cobain, self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "Rape Me", which he described as an "anti-rape song." * Francis Power Cobbe * Nikki Craft * Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film maker *Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) First president of League of Women Voters,First woman from Texas to run for the United States Senate * Mary Daly, ethicist and theologian * Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913), British suffragette * Simone de Beauvoir * Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment * Eoin Conroy * Olympe de Gouges * Marie de Gournay * François Poullain de la Barre * Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the Western hemisphere * Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution * Christine de Pizan (1365–1430) * Josefina Deland (1814–1890), Swedish feminist * Barbara Deming * Marie Dentière (c. 1495–1561), Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women * Charlotte Despard (1844–1939), British * Frederick Douglass * Carol Ann Duffy * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz * Marguerite Durand * Andrea Dworkin * Norah Elam (1878–1961) * Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), Communist writer and thinker; wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State * Cynthia Enloe, International Relations scholar * Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first female physician in Germany * Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929), British leader of the suffragist movement * Emily Faithfull (1835–1895), British * Shulamith Firestone * Louise Flodin, Swedish * Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954), suffragist, painter, and writer * Betty Ford, former First Lady * Isabella Ford (1855–1924) * Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi * Juliette Frette * Marilyn Frye * Margaret Fuller * Matilda Joslyn Gage * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * Emma Goldman * Vida Goldstein (1869–1949), Australian feminist politician * Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist * Jane Goodall * Lois Gould * Bettisia Gozzadini (1209–1261), held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, probably the first woman ever to hold a university post. * Jane Grant * Angelina Emily Grimke * Sarah Grimke * Marianne Hainisch * Bertha Harris * Jane Ellen Harrison, British scholar * Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924) * Shere Hite * Sarah Hoagland * Nicole Hollander * Edith How- Martyn (1875–1954), British suffragette * Julia Ward Howe * Mary Howell * André A. Jackson, African diamond administrator and philanthropist * Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929), the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician * Karla Jay * Sheila Jeffreys * Sonia Johnson * Jill Johnston * Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857), Scottish journalist, editor, and novelist * Marie Juchacz, German social reformer, feminist, and Member of the Reichstag * Wendy Kaminer * Aoua Keita * Anna Kingsford (1846–1888) * Alexandra Kollontai * Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner * Mary Lee, South Australian suffragist * Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), Swedish phoet * John Lennon, self-proclaimed feminist who with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song Woman is the Nigger of the World and Woman (John Lennon song) * Anna Leonowens * Gerda Lerner, post-Marxist * Fredrika Limnell, Swedish * Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878–1963) * Mary Livermore * Audre Lorde * Mina Loy * Margaret Bright LucasOxford Dictionary of National Biographies. * Rosa Luxemburg * Constance Lytton, British suffragette * Catharine MacKinnon * Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons and founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada * Madonna, entertainer * Soe Tjen Marching, Indonesian feminist * Amanda Marcotte, American blogger and activist * William Moulton Marston * Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), British, writer * Else Mayer * Rosa Mayreder * Susan McClary * Nellie McClung * Wendy McElroy * Helen Priscilla McLaren * Page Mellish * Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871–1880 and considered women's labor of comparable worth * Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English thinker * John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate * Katti Anker Møller, Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights * Agda Montelius (1850–1920) * Honor Moore American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays * Cherríe Moraga * Robin Morgan * Lucretia Mott * Anna Maria Mozzoni * Clarina I. H. Nichols * Helena Normanton British, first practising female barrister * Martha Nussbaum * Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) * Yoko Ono, Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician * Grace Paley * Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette * Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette * Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette * Alice Paul * Eva Perón *Frédérique Petrides (1903-1983) Belgian-American; one of the first women orchestral conductors and editor of Women in Music * Marion Phillips * Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar * Letty Cottin Pogrebin * Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures * Sharon Presley * Jerilynn Prior * Madeleine de Puisieux (1720-1798), feminist writer * Eleanor Rathbone, British * Janice Raymond * Claire Rayner, British * Adrienne Rich * Abby Rockefeller * Rosalie Roos (1823–1898) * Ernestine Rose * Agnes Maude Royden, British suffrage campaigner * Kathy Rudy * Florence Rush * Gita Sahgal, Indian feminist * Sarojini Sahoo * Celia Sánchez (1920–1980), in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution * George Sand (1804–1876), French Novelist * Flora Sandes, jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War. * Margaret Sanger * Thomas Sankara, author of Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1987 speech) * Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), pioneer of women's education in Germany * Olive Schreiner * Alice Schwarzer * Rose Scott * Barbara Seaman * Baroness Seear, British * Séverine * Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist * Kate Sheppard * Tarabai Shinde * Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897), English activist and writer * Elaine Showalter * Ruth Simpson * Barbara Smith * Dame Ethel Mary Smyth * Valerie Solanas * Donita Sparks, musician * Anna Garlin Spencer * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Gloria Steinem * Anna Sterky * Helene Stöcker * Lucy Stone * Marie Stopes * Mary Stott, British feminist journalist * Karlina Leksono Supelli, Indonesian feminist * Kazimiera Szczuka, Polish feminist, journalist, and critic and theoretician of the literature * Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher, and theologian * Elisabeth Tamm * Joan Kennedy Taylor * Thomas Thorild (1759–1808), Swedish poet and feminist * J. Ann Tickner, International Relations scholar * Sojourner Truth * Harriet Tubman * Urvashi Vaid * Wil van Gogh * Peng Wan-ru * Nesta Helen Webster, early 20th-century U.K. conservative * Trude Weiss-Rosmarin * Joss Whedon, writer-director and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer * Anna Whitlock, Swedish suffragette and school reformer * Karolina Widerström * Frances Willard (1839–1898), American educator, temperance reformer, and suffragist * Charlotte Wilson * Monique Wittig * Alice Wolfson * Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman * Victoria Woodhull * Virginia Woolf * Frances Wright * Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Bitch and Prozac Nation * Cathy Young * Sande Zeig * Clara Zetkin * Rote Zora == Second-wave feminists == * Bella Abzug * Gloria E. Anzaldúa * Ti-Grace Atkinson * Lorraine Bethel * Susan Brownmiller * Charlotte Bunch * Beatrix Campbell * Thérèse Casgrain * Shirley St. Hill Chisholm * Sandra Coney * Sonja Davies * Angela Davis * Simone de Beauvoir * Carol Downer * Cynthia Enloe * Myrlie Evers * Susan Faludi * Melissa Farley * Clara Fraser * Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford * Gerald Ford * Jo Freeman (Joreen) * Marilyn French * Betty Friedan * Carol Gilligan * Heide Göttner-Abendroth, German * Germaine Greer * Carol Hanisch * Donna Haraway * Bertha Harris * Nancy Hartsock * Dorothy Hewett * bell hooks * Sheila Jeffreys, Australian radical feminist *Florynce Kennedy * Coretta Scott King * Anne Koedt * Peggy Kornegger * Jacqueline Livingston * Angela Mason (1944-), British * Kate Millett * Robin Morgan * Ann Oakley * Griselda Pollock * Erin Pizzey * Janice Raymond * Bernice Johnson Reagon * Helen Reddy * Sheila Rowbotham, British * Joanna Russ * Diana E. H. Russell * Alice Schwarzer * Lynne Segal * Kato Shidzue, Japan * Ann Simonton * Eleanor Smeal * Dale Spender * Gloria Steinem * Michele Wallace * Hilary Wainwright * Molly Yard == Third-wave feminists == * Tori Amos * Gloria E. Anzaldúa * Margaret Atwood * Jennifer Baumgardner * Melissa Benn * Giannina Braschi * Susie Bright * Carrie Brownstein * Judith Butler * Margaret Cho *Meg Waite Clayton * Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought * Kimberly Dark * Ani DiFranco * Martha Davis * Donna Dresch * Betty Dodson * Johanna Fateman *Tavi Gevinson * Emily Haines * Kathleen Hanna * Donna Haraway * bell hooks * Holly Hunter * Joan Jett * Miranda July * Marcelle Karp *Jamie Keiles * Jean Kilbourne * Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Korean- American theologian * Barbara Kingsolver * Ariel Levy * Rosie Malek-Yonan, activist and author of The Crimson Field * Inga Muscio * Kathy Najimy * Sandra Oh * Alicia Ostriker * Ellen Page * Peaches * Liz Phair * Maria Raha * JD Samson * Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon * Gudrun Schyman * Joan Smith * Annie Sprinkle, American porn actress * Debbie Stoller * Nadine Strossen * Lili Taylor * Corin Tucker * Robin Tunney * Tobi Vail * Jessica Valenti * Rebecca Walker * Natasha Walter * Kaia Wilson * Naomi Wolf * Allison Wolfe *Julie Zeilinger == Ecofeminists == * Carol J. Adams * Helene Aylon * Judi Bari * Bernadette Cozart * Mary Daly * Françoise d'Eaubonne * Lois Marie Gibbs * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * Susan Griffin * Petra Kelly * Anna Kingsford * Winona LaDuke * Wangari Maathai * Maria Mies * Vandana Shiva * Monica Sjoo * Charlene Spretnak * Starhawk == French feminists == * Olympe Audouard * Hubertine Auclert * Marie Bashkirtseff * Hélène Cixous * Simone de Beauvoir * Olympe de Gouges * Christine Delphy * Maria Deraismes * Fatou Diome * Marguerite Durand * Bracha L. Ettinger * Colette Guillaumin * Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau * Gisèle Halimi * Luce Irigaray * Julia Kristeva * André Leo * Anaïs Nin * Madeleine Pelletier * Eugenie Potonie-Pierre * Pauline Roland * Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon * Séverine * Flora Tristan == Muslim feminists == * Leila Ahmed, Egyptian American writer * Qasim Amin * Shirin Ebadi * Nawal el-Sadaawi * Tahar Haddad, Tunisian writer * Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah * Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim * Kartini, Indonesian * Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani * Elaheh Koulaei * Irshad Manji * Fatima Mernissi * Taslima Nasrin, secular but of Muslim origin * Asra Nomani * Marjane Satrapi * Huda Shaarawi * Shahla Sherkat