Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
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Huda Sha’arawi
Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.
Frances Stewart
New Zealand women and children’s rights activist and the first female member of a New Zealand hospital board.
Isabella Tod
Irish feminist and reformer
Nathalie Lemel
Militant anarchist and feminist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of 1871
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Mary Ritter Beard
Prominent American historian, author, and women’s suffrage activist.
Mary Macarthur
Scottish suffragist and trade unionist
Harriet Taylor Mill
British philosopher and advocate of women’s rights
Katharine Glasier
English socialist politician, journalist, and novelist, best known for her pivotal role as a founding member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1893.