Ban Zhao
Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician, the earliest known female Chinese historian
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Ikram Antaki
Syrian-Mexican essayist, fiction writer, and poet
Christine de Pizan
1300s and 1400s Italian-born French writer, philosopher, composer and feminist
Dr Mary Whiton Calkins
In 1905 she served as the first female President of the American Psychological Association and in 1908 was ranked twelfth on a 1908 list of the top 50 psychologists in the country. Calkins also served as President of the American Philosophical Association in 1918.
Monique Wittig
An influential lesbian feminist and avant-garde writer, Monique Wittig (1935-2003) challenged the heteronormativity of early Second Wave French feminists and was an active novelist, philosopher, and activist.
Danuta Gierulanka
Danuta Gierulanka was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and psychologist. She wrote interesting works on mathematical education and on the philosophy of mathematics.
Ednah Dow Cheney
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
Sophie de Condorcet
French intellectual and advocate for the downtrodden
Hannah Arendt
German-American philosopher
Saint Teresa of Avila
Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer