List of feminists
This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, listed by feminist ideology.
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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.
- Christine de Pizan (1365 - 1430)
- 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
This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, listed by feminist ideology.
First-wave feminists
- Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874-1930), German university lecturer
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), American suffragette
- Alexandra Kollontai
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Clara Zetkin
- 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
- Séverine
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Lucy Stone
- Marie Stopes
- Sojurner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Victoria Woodhull
- Virginia Woolf
- Frances Wright
Second-wave feminists
- Bella Abzug
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Lorraine Bethel
- Susan Brownmiller
- Charlotte Bunch
- Thérèse Casgrain
- Mary Daly
- Angela Davis
- Heather Dean
- Andrea Dworkin
- Susan Faludi
- Shulamith Firestone
- Jo Freeman
- Marilyn French
- Betty Friedan
- Carol Gilligan
- Germaine Greer
- Carol Hanisch
- Donna Haraway
- Nancy Hartsock
- Dorothy Hewett
- bell hooks
- Bonnie Kreps
- Jacqueline Livingston
- Catharine MacKinnon
- Kate Millett
- Cherrie Moraga
- Robin Morgan
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Erin Pizzey
- Sheila Rowbotham
- Margaret Sanger
- Kathie Sarachild
- Alice Schwarzer
- Gloria Steinem
- Betsy Warrior
See also: Second-wave feminism
Third-wave feminists
See also: Third-wave feminism
Ecofeminists
- Carol J. Adams
- Helene Aylon
- Judi Bari
- Bernadette Cozart
- Françoise 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
- André Leo
- Madeleine Pelletier
- Pauline Roland
- Séverine
- Flora Tristan
- Eugenie Potonie-Pierre
- Monique Wittig
Lesbian feminists
- Judith Butler
- Audre Lorde
- Adrienne Rich
- Kathy Rudy
- Monique Wittig
Muslim Feminists
Latina Feminists
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
- Gerda Lerner post-Marxist feminist
- Susan McClary
- William Moulton Marston
- Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures