AnnMarie Wolpe
South African feminist, sociologist and anti-apartheid activist
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Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Helen Matthews Lewis
In her dual role as academic and social activist, Lewis helped found the discipline of Appalachian Studies and served for several decades as one of its most influential leaders.
Dr Jeanne Mintz
American sociologist
Belinda Probert
Belinda Probert’s research and writing are focused on the changing nature of work and employment and new patterns of advantage and disadvantage, particularly the way these changes have interacted with households and the domestic division of labour.
Anna Bodi
Australian social scientist
Dr MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was a proud Djaru Elder and the first Indigenous Australian woman to receive a doctorate, in 1989
bell hooks
As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.
Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum
In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.
Dr Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Dr. Douglas has mapped the discourse of gender and letters in the Arab Middle East and applied her insights to American culture.