Katherine Millett
American feminist writer, educator, artist and activist.
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Lillian Harman-O’Brien
American feminist whose life was dedicated to championing women’s sexual freedom and challenging societal norms.
Marya Chéliga-Loevy
Polish-French writer, playwright, feminist and pacifist.
Shulamith Firestone
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
Teresa Wilms Montt
Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.
Miriam O’Brien Underhill
Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs
Eveline Cunnington
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer
Etain Madden
Etain Madden (1939–82) studied philosophy at King’s College, London, and was active in a number of political and feminist causes.
Mariama Keïta
Mariama Keïta was Niger’s first female journalist and a prominent feminist activist.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.