Aloha Wanderwell
Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, travel lecturer, editor, screenwriter, and radio performer. She was also fluent in 11 languages.
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Anna Schwartz
American economist known for her significant contributions to the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and as a writer for The New York Times.
Dorothea Erxleben
Germany’s first female doctor.
Ismat Chughtai
Indian Urdu writer known for novels, short stories, and films.
Eveline Cunnington
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer
Junko Tabei
Renowned Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher.
Leslie Feinberg
American butch lesbian, transgender activist, author, and communist. Her notable works include “Stone Butch Blues” (1993) and “Transgender Warriors” (1996), which played a significant role in gender studies.
Lina Wertmüller
Oscar-winning Italian film director and screenwriter.
Luisa Capetillo
Iconic figure in Puerto Rico’s labor history. An anarchist writer and relentless activist, she championed labor rights, women’s empowerment, free love, and human emancipation.
Lilly Becher
German writer, journalist, and committed communist activist known for being one of the first anti-Nazi authors who documented the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1930s.