Dolce Ann Cabot
New Zeleand teacher, journalist, feminist
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Lilian Ngoyi
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
Helen Joseph
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
Rahima Moosa
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
Sophia De Bruyn
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
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.
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.
Rebecca West
Rebecca West famously remarked that ‘people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’.
Andrée Sheehy-Skeffington
French-Irish feminist
Nellie Cashman
Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist