Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
Pioneering American feminist, educator, and social reformerof the 1800s
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Ding Ling
Prominent Chinese writer and intellectual of the 1900s.
Brenda Feigen
American attorney, women’s rights activist, and film producer known for her significant contributions to feminist legal advocacy.
Clara Byrd Baker
American educator and community leader
Rajani Thiranagama
Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist, feminist, and academic, best known for her work in exposing human rights abuses during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Nellie McClung
Social activist, politician, author, and one of the most important figures in the Canadian suffragist movement.
Blanche Armwood
African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist
Jane Wilde
Irish poet, nationalist, and feminist
Margaret Bondfield
In 1929, she became Britain’s first female cabinet member.
Mary Hare
Not only was she one of Britain’s first ‘police women’, she was also a pioneering teacher of deaf children, and a passionate suffragette determined to change women’s lives for the better.Hare’s vision for auditory/oral education. In her will Mary Hare wrote ‘my efforts on behalf of the Deaf have been my greatest joy in life.’