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This collection of writings by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women looks at the intersections between feminism and race, class, and sexuality, and is generally viewed as one of the foundational texts of Third Wave feminism. Gloria E. Sonia Johnson. Coretta Scott King. Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus [ Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex ] in French. Alice Schwarzer. First-wave feminist ; suffragist, organizer, innovator, first woman to run for U. Nawal el-Sadaawi. Martha Davis. Second-wave feminist ; philosopher; writer.

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This well-researched take-down piece on the cult of s housewife domesticity is widely credited for launching the "second wave" of American feminism, which you probably know as "the women's liberation" movement of the 20th century. Natasha Walter. Jane Anger her Protection for Women. Jeanne Bouvier. Lorine Livingston Pruette. Empress French feminist; material feminist. Frédérique Petrides. Rosemary Hennessy. Julia Serano.

Feminists who Changed America, — Share this list. Elisabeth Freeman. Caroline Kauffmann. Pancha Carrasco. Charles Fourier. Suffragette ; one of the founders and the leader of the British suffragette movement. Margaret Cho. Enough of that nonsense! Misako Enoki.

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What Edna experiences in her romance-fueled awakening is the idea that she has, and has had the capability all along, to have an individual identity outside of her husband, her children, or any particular "other. Germaine Greer. Melissa Farley. Valerie Solanas. Earliest female appointed to any court; early activist against the practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers. Renee Taylor. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon.

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Helene Stöcker. Ana Castillo. Harriet Martineau. Support your fellow badass feminists and be ready to school some haters on the basics of queendom. Helena Swanwick. In Kowalski, Dean A. Agnes de Silva. Men and Feminism: Seal Studies.

Virginia Woolf. Bicycling and feminism Feminist history Women's history Timeline of women's legal rights other than voting. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Novels, essays or tweets — anything written by Roxane Gay is well worth reading, and Bad Feminist , her collection of personal essays, is one of her best. Alicia Ostriker. Updated February 11, Infoplease Staff. Cynthia Enloe. Progressive doctor, politician and suffragette. Smart, funny, topical, to-the-point. Hayao Miyazaki.

Margaret Cho. Flora Brovina. Katha Pollitt. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Men and Feminism: Seal Studies. Anna Hierta-Retzius. Wide Sargasso Sea is a sort of retelling of Bronte's classic Jane Eyre, but from a particularly interesting angle. Christian Maclagan.

One of the Ladies of Llangollen. Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill. The Feminist Observer. Jessica Valenti. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. For the past few years she has been blowing up on the scene as a writer, film critic, and feminist, and now she has written a dream anthem for the 21st century American woman. Portland, Maine: A. Caroline Haslett. Robert Jensen.

Lists Articles Feminists by nationality Literature American feminist literature Feminist comic books. Lucy Suchman. University of Pittsburgh Press. Socialist feminist. Rini Templeton. Women's Rights: A Global View. Woman Suffrage advocate; played a pivotal role in movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. Terry O'Neill.

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Having gone underground three years ago as a committed leftist, and since become a radical feminist, I regard this piece as a distillation of what I have learned in these three years. Women Writers. Auguste Schmidt. Alfhild Agrell. Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch. Sarah Hoagland. Jamie McIntosh. Kirthi Jayakumar. Amanda Marcotte.

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