Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza
Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.
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Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Pauline Léon
Léon is most remembered for her militancy and enthusiasm for taking action (often violent) to defend the French Revolution against the tyranny of the monarchy.
Berty Albrecht
Berty Albrecht was passionate about family planning and better working conditions for women, and founded the feminist journal Le Problème Sexuel.
Joan Bielski
Bielski was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and of the NSW Women in Education group (1973-1994), a feminist organisation, whose slogan was Educate to Liberate.
Jeni Thornley
Australian documentary filmmaker
Alice Locke Park
Park became a key member of the influential network of socialist-feminist women in California and fought for women’s emancipation.
Mitsuye Yamada
Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Trish Bostrom
American tennis player who fought for equal treatment of female athletes
Yolanda Alaniz
Chicana socialist working for women, LGBT, workers’ and immigrant rights