Diane Noomin
Diane Robin Noomin was a famous American comics artist linked to the underground comics scene. She’s best known for her creation, DiDi Glitz, who tackled edgy topics like feminism, self-exploration, body image, and miscarriages.
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Emma Goldman
Russian-born Jewish anarchist, political activist, and writer who greatly influenced anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Virdimura di Catania
Virdimura, a Jewish woman from Catania, Italy, became the first “ducturissa” or female doctor.
Martha Gruening
Jewish activist and journalist
Muriel Spark
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist
Elaine Feldman
Irish public figure and founder of a secondary school for the Jewish community
Divsha Amirà
Russian-Israeli mathematician and educator
Florine Stettheimer
A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.
Eleanor Antin
Artist Eleanor Antin’s work questions the role of women and artists in society, the different identities everyone maintains, and the histories and legacies of contrasting artistic traditions.