Shulamith Firestone
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.
Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer
Etain Madden (1939–82) studied philosophy at King’s College, London, and was active in a number of political and feminist causes.
Mariama Keïta was Niger’s first female journalist and a prominent feminist activist.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.