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Rebecca West

Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.

Flora Tristan

One of the overlooked (yet instrumental) representatives of French utopian socialism

Róisín Walsh

Irish librarian and republican

First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.

Auguste Fickert

Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.

Patricia Grimshaw

Australian historian

Nuala Fennell

Irish feminist and politician

Concepción Arenal

Spanish publicist and social worker

Florine Stettheimer

A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.

Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.