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This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, listed by feminist ideology.

Early pioneers

Eleanor of Aquitaine 12th century: believed in women's superiority over men^{[citation needed]}
Bettisia Gozzadini (1209-1261) Held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, Probably the first woman ever to hold a university post.
Christine de Pizan (1365–1430)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex.
Marie Dentière - (c. 1495 – 1561)- Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women.
Jane Anger author of Her Protection for Women published 1589 in London.
Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), Queen
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the new world
Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659-1724), Swedish salonist and phoet
Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first female physician in Germany
Catharina Ahlgren(1734-1783), Swedish journalist and feminist.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809), American Founding Father and revolutionary [1].
Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), Philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment [2]
Abigail Adams (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States
Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution.
Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817), Swedish phoet
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), Swedish poet and feminist
Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist
Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), Scottish journalist, editor, and novelist
Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
Catharine Beecher (1800–1878), American educator, author
Lovisa Årberg (1803-1866), first female physician in Sweden
George Sand (1804–1876), French Novelist
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English thinker [3].
Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), Activist, writer, thinker, pioneer and founder of the "Feminist Movement" in Spain
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) Communist writer and thinker. Wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Auguste Schmidt, (1833-1902), Pioneer of women's education in Germany
Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician ever.
Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher and theologian.
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897) English activist and writer
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first female physician in the U.S.A.
Anna Bayerová (1853–1924), second Czech female physician
Celia Sánchez (1920–1980) - participant in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution.

First-wave feminists

For main article, see: First-wave feminism

Jane Addams (1860–1935)
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German university lecturer
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette
Mary Astell (c. 1666 – 1731), author of "Serious Proposal to the Ladies"
Hubertine Auclert
Rachel Foster Avery
Marie Bashkirtseff
Simone de Beauvoir
Barbara Bodichon
Elizabeth Blackwell
Fredrika Bremer
Ursula Mellor Bright^[1]
Antoinette Brown
Katherine Burdekin
Katharine Bushnell
Lucy Burns
Frances Jennings Casement
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's rights activist
Maria Cederschiöld
Alice Clark
Francis Power Cobbe
Frederick Douglass [4]
Marguerite Durand
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Louise Flodin
Margaret Fuller
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emma Goldman
Olympe de Gouges
Sarah Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimke
Marianne Hainisch
Jane Ellen Harrison - British scholar
Julia Ward Howe
Marie Juchacz - German social reformer, feminist and Member of the Reichstag
Alexandra Kollontai
Louisa Lawson - Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
Mary Lee - South Australian suffragist
Anna Leonowens
Mary Livermore
Mina Loy
Margaret Bright Lucas^[2]
Rosa Luxemburg
Agnes Macphail - first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons; founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada
Priscilla Bright Mclaren
Nellie McClung
Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871-1880. Considered women's labor of comparable worth.
Else Mayer
Rosa Mayreder
Lucretia Mott
Anna Maria Mozzoni
Katti Anker Møller - Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
Clarina I. H. Nichols
Emmeline Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst
Alice Paul
Marion Phillips
Ernestine Rose
Margaret Sanger
Séverine
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rose Scott
Kate Sheppard
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
Anna Garlin Spencer
Lucy Stone
Marie Stopes
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Karolina Widerström ‎
Victoria Woodhull
Virginia Woolf
Frances Wright
Clara Zetkin

Second-wave feminists

For main article, see: Second-wave feminism

Third-wave feminists

For main article, see Third-wave feminism

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Margaret Atwood
Jennifer Baumgardner
Melissa Benn
Giannina Braschi
Carrie Brownstein
Judith Butler
Lili Taylor
Susie Bright
Margaret Cho
Patricia Hill Collins (author of Black Feminist Thought) . ISBN 0415924839. OCLC 41211570.
Victor Colussi
Johanna Fateman
Ani DiFranco
Martha Davis
Donna Dresch
Corin Tucker
Betty Dodson
Maureen Dowd
Emily Haines
Kathleen Hanna
Donna Haraway
bell hooks
Joan Jett
Miranda July
Marcelle Karp
Jean Kilbourne
Barbara Kingsolver
Rosie Malek-Yonan (activist and author of The Crimson Field )
Inga Muscio
Kathy Najimy
Sandra Oh
Alicia Ostriker
Ellen Page
Lisa Palac
Liz Phair
Maria Raha
JD Samson
Gudrun Schyman
Cheryl Seelholf (Creator of Gentle Spirit Magazine)
Joan Smith
Annie Sprinkle
Debbie Stoller
Nadine Strossen
Robin Tunney
Tobi Vail
Rebecca Walker
Natasha Walter
Kaia Wilson
Naomi Wolf

See also: Third-wave feminism

Radical feminists

For main article, see Radical feminism

Redstockings
Susan Brownmiller
Nikki Craft (Activist from 1970 to 2006 and beyond who does not identify as 2nd or 3rd wave feminist.)
Mary Daly
Andrea Dworkin
Melissa Farley
Shulamith Firestone
Catharine MacKinnon
Robin Morgan
Valerie Solanas
Rote Zora

Ecofeminists

For main article, see Ecofeminism

Dissident feminists

Individualist feminists

For main article, see Individualist feminism

Anarcha-feminists

For main article, see: Anarcha-feminism

French feminists

For main article, see French feminism

Jewish feminists

Main article: List of Jewish feminists

Lesbian feminists

For main article, see: Lesbian feminism

Jeffner Allen
Susan Cavin
Margaret Cruinshank
Mary Daly
Carol Ann Duffy
Andrea Dworkin
Marilyn Frye
Bertha Harris
Sarah L. Hoagland
Sheila Jeffreys
Sonia Johnson
Jill Johnston
Audre Lorde
Robin Morgan
Maricla Moyano
Julia Penelope
Janice Raymond
Adrienne Rich
Kathy Rudy
Ruth Simpson
Barbara Smith
Ailbhe Smyth
Kerry Thompson (Senior Lecturer in Feminist Theory at UCL)
Urvashi Vaid
Susan Wolfe
Monique Wittig
Sande Zeig

Muslim feminists

For main article, see Islamic feminism

Leila Ahmed
Qasim Amin
Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
Shirin Ebadi
Fatima Mernissi
Nawal el-Sadaawi
Huda Shaarawi
Kartini (Indonesian)
Irshad Manji
Asra Nomani
Azar Nafisi
Taslima Nasrin (secular but of Muslim origin)
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim

Latina feminists

See Feminist history in Latin America

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Cherrie Moraga-One of the most influential of all time.
Lydia Cacho
Ana Castillo
Christina Marie Farley- An influential feminist who used the metaphor of her cat muldoon to depict the amnesties of human origin.
Linda Martín Alcoff

German and German-Jewish feminists

Indian Feminists

East Asian feminists

Peng Wan-ru

Women's Health Feminists

Other feminists

Alan Alda U.S. Actor (M*A*S*H*, (The West Wing) who campaigned extensively on behalf of Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970's and early 1980's.
Lois W. Banner, U.S. historian
Annie Besant
Kurt Cobain self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "Rape Me", which he described as "anti-rape".
Anti-Flag self proclaimed feminists. Have written songs about feminism including "Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain}
Flora Brovina
Tina Fey Actress and writer of the NBC show 30 Rock
Juliette Frette, American model .
Liz Carpenter one of the founders of the National Women's Political Caucus
Cynthia Enloe feminist International Relations scholar
Betty Ford
André A. Jackson, African diamond administrator and philanthropist
Aoua Keita
Gerda Lerner post-Marxist feminist
Karlina Leksono Supelli Indonesian feminist
Rosa Huber Canadian Feminist/Activist
Amanda Marcotte American blogger and activist
Susan McClary
Yoko Ono Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician
John Lennon self-proclaimed feminist, along with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song "Woman is the Nigger of the World"
Soe Tjen Marching Indonesian feminist
Melissa McEwan American blogger and activist
Erin McPhee infamous, self-proclaimed feminist
William Moulton Marston
Martha Nussbaum
Sylvia Plath author of The Bell Jar
Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures
Thomas Sankara, author of Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1987 speech)
Flora Sandes jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War.
Caroline Shaw, University of Guelph academic, self-proclaimed feminist
Ailbhe Smyth, Irish feminist activist, academic
J. Ann Tickner, feminist International Relations scholar
Joss Whedon, writer-director, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Frances Willard (1839–1898), an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Bitch and Prozac Nation
Kazimiera Szczuka - Polish feminist, journalist and critic and theoretician of the literature
S.U.Zanne - Belgian Feminist (1838–1923)

Feminist allies

Jello Biafra, American punk rock musician and Green Party activist.
Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese anime director.

References

^ ‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies

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