Emma Brignell Ostler
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman
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Elizabeth Mary Gilmer
New Zealand social worker, educationist and horticulturist
Mariama Keïta
Mariama Keïta was Niger’s first female journalist and a prominent feminist activist.
Aoua Keïta
Aoua Keïta was a Malian midwife, activist, and politician, recognized as a prominent figure in Mali’s struggle for independence, trade unionism, and feminism.
Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
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.
Alicia Moreau de Justo
Alicia Moreau de Justo was a prominent Argentine physician and politician known for her contributions to feminism and socialism.
Jennifer Musa
Irish-Pakistani politician, tribal elder and nurse
Catherine Winter
Irish publicist and campaigner
Dr Martha Ripley
Influential American physician, suffragist, and reformer, particularly known for her work in advancing women’s health care and reproductive rights.