Activism > Women's Rights Archives - Page 26 of 52

Dr Kathleen Lynn

Irish medical practitioner and political activist

Margaret Skinnider

Irish republican, teacher, and trade unionist

Nuala Fennell

Irish feminist and politician

Evelyn Owens

Irish trade unionist and women’s rights advocate

One of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike, she was one of the most effective, professional organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union working at various moments in Yorkshire (1909), Oxford (1910), Portsmouth and Southampton (1911-12).

Red Zora

With its attacks, the RZ tried to encourage women and girls to form gangs to fight back against the many forms of violence and abuse that they experienced in their everyday lives.

Annie S Swan

Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.