Feminists Feminists Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adrienne Rich"
Alan Gerald Soble (b. 1947) is an American philosopher who is a prominent thinker in the Philosophy of Sex. He is currently University Research Professor at the University of New Orleans. He was born to Sylvia Soble and William Behr Soble in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 4 1947. Early in his professional career, Soble wrote general papers in areas of Ethics and Epistemology, but in the late 1970s began to help articulate the fledgling specialty of Philosophy of Sex. In the subsequent years, Soble has edited or written many of the most significant works in this field. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Soble"
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Her international debut album Jagged Little Pill (1995) became one of the most successful albums of all time, with the total worldwide sales estimated at thirty million copies. Three more studio albums followed – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998), Under Rug Swept (2002), and So-Called Chaos (2004), though none achieved the same degree of success as Jagged Little Pill. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alanis Morissette"
Alice Fulton (born January 25, 1952 in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet, author, and feminist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Fulton"
Alice Henry ( March 21, 1857 - February 15, 1943), was an Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist that also became prominent in the American trade union movement as a member of the Women's Trade Union League. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Henry"
Alice Paul ( January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Paul"
Alice Schwarzer (born December 3 1942 in Wuppertal) is arguably the most prominent contemporary German feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA. ==Biography== As daughter of a single mother she spent her childhood with her grand parents. In 1969 she started working as a journalist. From 1970 to 1974 she worked as a freelancer for different media in Paris. At the same time she studied psychology and sociology, amongst others lectured by Michel Foucault. She was one of the founders of the Feminist Movement in Paris (Mouvement de Liberation des femmes, MLF) and also spread their ideas to Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Schwarzer"
Alice Stone Blackwell 1857- 1950, was an American feminist, journalist and human rights defender. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Stone Blackwell"
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and feminist whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Walker"
Alicia Ostriker is an American poet and scholar born in 1937, and is considered a prominent voice in Jewish feminist poetry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alicia Ostriker"
Alix Olson is an American poet who works exclusively in spoken word. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997 and uses her work to point out the problems with capitalism and patriarchy. She identitifies as a lesbian, socialist, feminist working for democracy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alix Olson"
Alva Erskine Belmont ( January 17, 1853 - January 26, 1933) was a multi-millionaire American socialite and a major funder of the women's suffrage movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alva Belmont"
Amina Wadud is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She was the cause of controversy in March of 2005 when she lead a Friday prayer for a group of Muslims in New York City, a job usually reserved for men. She joined VCU in 1992 after studying at the International Islamic University in Malaysia. She has specialized in Gender and Qur'anic Studies, having written a book on the subject, Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and during graduate school, she studied Arabic in Egypt at the American University in Cairo, Cairo University, and Al-Azhar University. After publishing her first book, she spoke at universities throughout the United States and abroad. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amina Wadud"
Andrea Rita Dworkin ( September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer. She was best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued led to rape and other forms of violence against women. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrea Dworkin"
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Ani DiFranco ( IPA: ɑ-ni) (born Angela Marie Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. DiFranco is prolific, having produced three studio albums of new material and one remix album just in 1999 (see list below). She has released at least one album every year since 1990, with the exception of 2000 (perhaps because she released three albums in 1999 and a double album in 2001.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Ani DiFranco"
Ann Oakley is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist and writer. She is Professor and Founder-Director of the Social Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing and especially new novels. She was educated at Oxford University (MA) and Bedford College, London (Ph.D). She is the only daughter of Professor Richard Titmuss and wrote a biography of her parents as well as editing some of his works for recent re-publication. She has written numerous academic works, many focusing on the lives and roles of women in society as well as several best-selling novels, of which the best-known is probably The Men's Room, which was serialized for BBC television. She has also written an early partial autobiography. She divides her life between living in London and in a rural house where she does most of her fiction writing. She is a mother and grand-mother. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ann Oakley"
Anna Bonus Kingsford ( September 16, 1846 - February 22, 1888) was one of the first female British physicians, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Kingsford established Theosophy in England and was best known as an advocate of women's rights, animal rights and vegetarianism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna Kingsford"
Anna Kuliscioff (born Anija Rosenstein in approximately 1857 in Moskaja, Crimea; died 27 December 1925 in Milan) was a Russian revolutionary. She was a prominent feminist and an anarchist influenced by Mikhail Bakunin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna Kuliscioff"
Anne Jemima Clough ( 20 January 1820 – 27 February 1892) was an early English suffragette and a promoter of higher education for women. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anne Clough"
Anne Sexton ( November 9, 1928– October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anne Sexton"
Hsiu-lien Annette Lu (呂秀蓮, pinyin: Lǚ Xiùlián) (born June 7, 1944) is the vice president of Republic of China on Taiwan and a politician of the Democratic Progressive Party. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annette Lu"
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Annie Wood Besant ( Clapham, London October 1, 1847 – India September 20, 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annie Besant"
Working-class heroine Annie Kenney is credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annie Kenney"
Annie Nathan Meyer (Feb. 19, 1867-Sept. 23, 1951) was an American author and promoter of the higher education of women, born in New York City. She was instrumental in the founding of Barnard College (one of the Seven Sisters). She became known as an opponent of woman suffrage. At one time, Annie Nathan Meyer was associate editor of the Broadway Magazine. She edited Woman's Work in America (1891) and contributed a series of articles to the New York Evening Post. She published: ...more on Wikipedia about "Annie Nathan Meyer"
Avedon Carol is an anti- censorship and civil liberties campaigner and a researcher in the field of sex crime. She is a member of Feminists Against Censorship, and as part of their publishing group co-edited Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures (1993), and is the author of Nudes, Prudes and Attitudes (1994); she has also worked on other books by Feminists Against Censorship. Additionally, she is a well-known figure in science fiction fandom and has been nominated for three Hugo Awards. Carol was born in the Maryland but now resides in London. She also runs a political blog at http://sideshow.me.uk/. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avedon Carol" www.shortopedia.com - forget the rest.
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