Stefanie Zweig
German Jewish author and journalist
German Jewish author and journalist
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books.
Influential American social activist and educator.
The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.
Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.
Finnish author, artist, and illustrator whose most famous works are the children’s novels in the Moomin series
American author known for her significant contributions to speculative fiction. Le Guin’s career spanned nearly six decades. She authored over twenty novels, over a hundred short stories, poetry, literary critiques, translations, and children’s books.
Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs
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.