Joan Donley
Joan Donley was a midwife whose advocacy of home births and natural childbirth helped shape modern midwifery in New Zealand.
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Learmonth Dalrymple
New Zealand educationalist
Kitty Lovell-Smith
New Zealand linotype operator, shop manager, feminist and community worker
Kathleen Delap
Irish activist in women’s organisations
Marie Bell
Marie Bell was an educator and tireless campaigner for the rights of both children and parents, challenging educational orthodoxies to ensure more child-centred practices and an environment more supportive of parents.
Marianne Tasker
New Zealand feminist, community leader and trade unionist
Helen Churchill Candee
American journalist, author, and social reformer, who achieved widespread recognition for her diverse career and her survival of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Dr Mary Daly
Radical feminist philosopher, theologian, and academic.
Tillie Olsen
American writer and activist
Halyna Kuzmenko
Ukrainian teacher and anarcho-feminist revolutionary known for her significant role in the Makhnovshchina movement, which aimed to establish a libertarian communist society in southern Ukraine.