Activism Archives - Page 121 of 199

Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist

Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.

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

Ngāti Kahungunu founding mother, landowner, farmer in New Zealand

British activist, sculptor and painter who travelled internationally

New Zealand political activist, feminist, welfare worker

Irish environmental and community campaigner

Social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a pioneering woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.

New Zealand teacher, educationalist

Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist