Ann Fletcher Jackson
English Quaker evangelist in New Zealand
English Quaker evangelist in New Zealand
Swedish-born artist and writer who strongly advocated radical anarcho/eco-feminism and played a pivotal role in the early development of the Goddess movement.
American author renowned for her works on comparative religion and early United States history.
Italian saint closely linked to Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a Franciscan monastic order known for its strict poverty.
New Zealand Roman Catholic religious sister, teacher and founder of a congregation of religious sisters.
Nun, mystic, and the founder of the Capuchin Poor Clares convent in Alicante, Spain.
Empress and Queen of Italy in the late 800s
Regina Jonas’s studies at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums led her to write a thesis titled “Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?” Despite protests, she received her semicha on December 27, 1935.
In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.
The last ruler of the Lordship of Jever from the Wiemken family. She reigned from 1517 until her death on February 20, 1575.