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Joan Kirner

Australian politician and the first female Victorian Premier

Lizzie Magie

Inventor of the board game Monopoly

Hortensia Elizondo

Mexican writer, journalist, film critic, and feminist.

Simone de Beauvoir

Perhaps the most renowned French feminist writer of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir made significant contributions to the French feminist and existentialist movements.

Dr Fatema Mernissi

Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist

Joyce McCartan

20th century Irish community worker

June Levine

20th century Irish feminist, journalist and author

Eve Ensler

Playwright Eve Ensler, who would later go by V, debuted her ground-breaking The Vagina Monologues in 1996.

Prior to volunteering for the U.S. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps at age 45 in 1942, Frances Keegan Marquis had been an active suffragist who managed the Franklin Square House, a residential hotel in Boston offering housing and social services for around 700 women students and wage earners.

Alva Myrdal

Swedish diplomat, government minister, and author Alva Myrdal received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for her work advocating for nuclear disarmament.