Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
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Cornelia Sorabji
Prominent Indian lawyer, social reformer, and writer.
Yamada Waka
Prominent Japanese feminist who advocated social reform during Japan’s late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras.
Eveline Cunnington
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer
Eglantyne Jebb
British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of World War I
Emma Goldman
Russian-born Jewish anarchist, political activist, and writer who greatly influenced anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Emma Brignell Ostler
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman
Dr Martha Ripley
Influential American physician, suffragist, and reformer, particularly known for her work in advancing women’s health care and reproductive rights.
Letitia Youmans
Canadian temperance campaigner
Josephine Butler
Victorian English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women’s suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.