Activism Archives - Page 246 of 319

Clara Lambert

Militant British suffragette

Madge Hobbs

Irish barrister and civil rights activist

Red Zora

With its attacks, the RZ tried to encourage women and girls to form gangs to fight back against the many forms of violence and abuse that they experienced in their everyday lives.

Wangari Maathai

Kenyan environmental activist

Annie S Swan

Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.

Doris Lessing

Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist

Concepción Arenal

Spanish publicist and social worker

Anna Hierta-Retzius

Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist

Florine Stettheimer

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

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.