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Suffragette, feminist; human rights campaigner; influential in labour rights and early days of UN: 1875–1939: Louisa Strittmater: United States: 1896: 1944: Feminist whose division of her estate to the National Woman's Party as listed in her will was controversially contested. [102] 1875–1939: Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill: United ...
Author of hundreds of features in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Independent, and major women's magazines and the paperback Women with X Appeal: Women Politicians in Britain Today (London: Macdonald Optima 1989). Jane Austen (1775–1817) – writer and feminist, focusing on women's rights and marriage complications through 6 novels
Leftist feminist group associated with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino (FBPF), founded 1922. Women's suffrage organization. Geledés - Black Women's Institute, founded 1988. Black feminist NGO.
After Donald Trump won the Presidential Election, women across the U.S. have taken an interest in the 4B feminist movement.. While the 4B movement has been active and circulating for some time now ...
Just last week, the first Black woman was nominated to the Supreme Court, and in the most recent presidential election, the U.S. got its first woman vice president. "Hopefully this can be the dawn ...
(born February 9, 1944) Alice Walker, an African-American author and feminist, wrote the novel The Color Purple. It was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. She is well known as an outspoken individual regarding women's rights, race, sexuality, and the importance of culture. "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1983)
Alice Amelia Chown (1866–1949) – Canadian feminist, pacifist and writer; Muriel Duckworth (1908–2009) – Canadian pacifist, feminist and community activist, founder of Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace; Mildred Fahrni (1900–1992) – Canadian pacifist, feminist, internationally active in the peace movement
Whether you're looking to brush up on the early days of the movement or simply be astounded at how far we've come, these are the perfect feminist reads for WHM. The Essential Women's History Month ...