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.
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Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher was the first female director of the National Gallery of Australia.
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.
Lt. Col. Juanita Redmond Hipps
Juanita Redmond Hipps trained as a nurse at South Caroline State Hospital and joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1936. She was sent to Manila, in the Philippines soon after joining.
Tina McElroy Ansa
Novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story writer
Lisa Bellear
Lisa Bellear’s work as an artist, poet, photographer, broadcaster, activist and academic continues to inspire change and educate.
Eliza Bennis
Irish-American methodist activist and diarist
Barbara Fitzgerald
Irish novelist
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.
Jhumpa Lahiri
In her works of fiction, Dr. Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging.