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Alaide Gualberta Beccari

Articles originally printed in Woman were translated and published abroad, in England's feminist journal Englishwoman's Review.

Ana Luísa Amaral

In addition to publishing numerous articles in Portuguese and international journals, in 2005 she co-authored (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) the Dicionário da Crítica Feminista (Dictionary of Feminist Criticism) and has recently published a new annotated edition of the feminist classic Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa.

Anna Whitlock

Anna Whitlock (13 June 1852 – 16 June 1930), was a Swedish school pioneer, journalist and feminist.

Antoinette Fouque

With the French writer and feminist Monique Wittig, Josiane Chanel and many others, Fouque was active since 1968 in one of the early women's groups which gathered together in 1970 to form the French Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF), a movement consisting of multiple groups throughout France without any formal leadership.

Ariel Levy

At New York magazine, where Levy was a contributing editor for 12 years, she wrote about John Waters, Stanley Bosworth, Donatella Versace, the writer George W. S. Trow, the feminist Andrea Dworkin, and the artists Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow.

Benedetta Carlini

E. Ann Matter, a feminist religious scholar, has an alternative perspective on the case of Benedetta Carlini, and wrote about it in the Journal of Homosexuality in 1990.

Betty

Betty Friedan, American feminist and author of The Feminine Mystique

Betty Cobb

Betty Reynolds Cobb (1884–1956), American attorney and feminist

C. K. Janu

Indeed, apart from K. R. Gowri Amma (a former communist leader who became minister several times, coming from a lower-caste—Ezhava—background) and K. Ajitha (a former Naxalite leader and now organiser of a feminist NGO), there are not many women in Kerala who make it to such political prominence.

Cabramatta High School

The school's successful annual Peace Day celebrations continued to deliver warm welcomes to recipients of the Sydney Peace Prize, including Indian social justice and environmental activist, eco-feminist and author Vandana Shiva in 2010, American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky in 2011, as well as Zimbabwean senator Sekai Holland in 2012.

Chittick

Elizabeth Chittick (1908–2009), American feminist who served as president of the National Woman's Party

Donna Hughes

Donna M. Hughes (born 1954), feminist scholar and anti-prostitution and anti-trafficking activist

Ehyophsta

She is one of the women in the Heritage Floor of the famous feminist installation art work, The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago.

Eliska Vincent

On her death in 1914 she bequeathed the collection to the Musée social (Social museum) in the hope that it would organize a feminist institute.

Feminism and equality

Genders (usually distinguished from sexes) are counted as other than two in some feminist utopian literature, according to Karin Schönpflug, analyzing works by Gabriel de Foigny (1676), Ursula le Guin (1969), Samuel Delany (1976), Donna Haraway (1980), and Alkeline van Lenning (1995).

Feminist art movement in the United States

She taught 15 students who formed the Feminist Art Program, which rented and refurbished an off-campus studio at 1275 Maple Avenue in downtown Fresno where they had reading groups, collaborated on art and held discussion groups about their life experiences which then influenced their art.

Feminist Improvising Group

The Feminist Improvising Group (FIG) was founded in London in 1977 by Scottish vocalist Maggie Nicols from Centipede and English bassoonist/composer Lindsay Cooper from Henry Cow.

Frivolous litigation

In July 2013, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario dismissed a complaint laid by a man posing as Gloria Dawn Ironbox, a fictional feminist attorney on popular television series Family Guy.

Gary A. Olson

In 1991, Olson began conducting scholarly interviews of internationally prominent intellectuals including anthropologist Clifford Geertz, linguist Noam Chomsky, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard, philosopher of science Sandra Harding, theorist and cultural critic Donna Haraway, political philosopher Ernesto Laclau, and feminist theorist bell hooks.

Gude Cause

Despite the short notice, several hundred women turned up, walking along Princes Street and climbing Calton Hill to sing "Bread and Roses" and other feminist songs.

Harold C. Washington

, The Feminist Companion to the Bible, 6 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), 41-58.

Hedy d'Ancona

Outside of government, she is known for starting the feminist monthly Opzij as well as the special interest lobbying group, Man-Vrouw-Maatschappij (Man-Woman-Society), which she co-founded with Joke Kool-Smit.

Helena Swanwick

Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick, née Sickert CH (1864, Munich – 16 November 1939) was a British feminist and pacifist.

Homotopia

Using a gritty feminist shoot-and-run style the film is also heavily influenced by Born in Flames and The Battle of Algiers.

Jane Gallop

In addition to psychoanalysis, especially Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory (particularly in the context of the American and French feminist responses to it), she has written on topics which include psychoanalysis and feminism; the Marquis de Sade; feminist literary criticism; pedagogy; sexual harassment; photography; and queer theory.

Jeannette Armstrong

In a 1989 interview with Hartmut Lutz, Armstrong relates that some feminist scholars question her decision to select a male central character for her novel; however, Armstrong compellingly contends that female strength and male development are portrayed effectively through the perspective of Slash (18).

Joanna Russ

The late 1960s and 1970s marked the beginnings of feminist SF scholarship—a field of inquiry that was all but created single-handedly by Russ, who contributed many essays on feminism and science fiction that appeared in journals such as College English and Science Fiction Studies.

Judith Lawrence

She continued her peace and feminist views through newspapers like Broadside.

Knud Pontoppidan

He was involved in a notable conflict with writer and feminist Amalie Skram in 1895, which received considerable press coverage and had influence on the subsequent treatment of psychiatric patients in Denmark.

La Adelita

Nevertheless, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the problematic identity of the female soldier Adelita, work from various feminist scholars such as Jane Elshtain, Cynthia Enloe and Madeleine Albright must be used as guidelines, which will provide a better insight into the dynamic participation of women during the Mexican Revolution.

La Citoyenne

That same year, activist Maria Martin (1839-1910) launched Le Journal des femmes and on December 9, 1897, high-profile actress and journalist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936) continued the cause and opened another feminist newspaper called La Fronde.

Leadenhall Press

Other authors included Andrew Lang, Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie, Lady Florence Dixie (feminist sister of the infamous Marquess of Queensberry), Max O'Rell, Louis Fagan of the British Museum, J. A. Fuller Maitland, Grant Allen, and Count Eric Stenbock.

Linda Lappin

In The Etruscan, her first novel, Harriet Sackett, a feminist photographer, travels to Italy to photograph Etruscan tombs for the Theosophical Society.

Linda Nochlin

In the conference and in the book, art historians addressed the innovative work of such figures as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Francesca Woodman, Carrie Mae Weems and Mona Hatoum in the light of the legacies of thirty years of feminist art history, appeared in 2006.

Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes.

Mary Beth Edelson

In 1972 Edelson used an image of Leonardo Da Vinci’s mural to create Some Living Women Artists / Last Supper. She used collage to add notable women artist's heads of the men in the painting, which quickly became "one of the most iconic images of the Feminist Art movement." John the Baptist's head was covered by Nancy Graves and Christ by Georgia O'Keefe.

Mary Radcliffe

Mary Ann Radcliffe (c. 1746 – c. 1810), an important British figure in the early feminist movement.

Mayreder

Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938), Austrian author, painter, musician and feminist

Mira Schor

Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation, including “Backlash and Appropriation,” a chapter of The Power of Feminist Art, 1994, an historical overview of the Feminist movement published by Abrams, “Patrilineage”, 2002, republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited by Amelia Jones, and on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and Ana Mendieta.

Mrs. Munger's Class

Yvonne (voiced by Cree Summer): The feminist whose lines are all about suffrage, oppression, or other social issues.

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn

Born in London to a feminist/social activist mother and engineer father, Olga attended the North London Collegiate School, where she was a close friend of Marie Stopes.

Phyllis Schlafly's social policies

Schlafly has also nationally published several books detailing her anti-feminist stance and her social policies.

Prostitution in Italy

One feminist MP, Ersilia Salvato (RC) complained about the rushed legislation and abstained.

Richard E. Spear

His research and publications have focused on seventeenth-century European art, ranging from a two-volume catalogue raisonné on Domenichino (1581–1641) to studies based on iconographic, psychoanalytic, feminist, and economic methodologies.

Sexual capital

Hamermesh assumes these economic benefits must be due to unfair discrimination, a position he takes from Deborah Rhode's new book, Beauty Bias, a feminist lawyer's critique of the social benefits that accrue to attractive people, and the disadvantages experienced by unattractive people, most particularly the obese.

Vivian Schilling

In 2006 she portrayed feminist and author Gertrude Atherton (b. 1857–1948) opposite Campbell Scott's Ambrose Bierce (b. 1842–1915?) in the film anthology Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories. In 2012, Schilling provided the voice of Buttercup in Toys in the Attic alongside co-stars Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack and Cary Elwes.

William Edward Ayrton

Chaplin and Ayrton's daughter was the feminist and author Edith Ayrton, wife of Israel Zangwill and mother of Oliver Zangwill.

William Pember Reeves

They had two daughters, the feminist writer Amber Reeves (born 1887) and Beryl (born 1889); and one son, Fabian Pember Reeves (1895-1917).

Worker-communism Unity Party of Iran

It was founded in 2007 by Hekmat's wife, the radical feminist Azar Majedi, by the current leader Ali Javadi, and by Homa Arjomand and Siavash Daneshvar as a spin-off from Worker-Communist Party of Iran.


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