Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
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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.
Alicia Moreau de Justo
Alicia Moreau de Justo was a prominent Argentine physician and politician known for her contributions to feminism and socialism.
Jennifer Musa
Irish-Pakistani politician, tribal elder and nurse
Catherine Winter
Irish publicist and campaigner
Dr Martha Ripley
Influential American physician, suffragist, and reformer, particularly known for her work in advancing women’s health care and reproductive rights.
Barbara Corlett
Irish pioneer of women’s education
Anna Haslam
Irish campaigner for women’s rights
Anne Jellicoe
Irish pioneer of women’s education and founder of Alexandra College, Dublin.
Edith Searle Grossmann
New Zealand teacher, novelist, journalist, feminist