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Feminists

Biographies of and quotes from famous feminists, women who worked for women's rights.
  1. Key Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s
  2. Blackwell Women (11)
  3. Amelia Bloomer (3)
  4. Simone de Beauvoir (3)
  5. Olympe de Gouges (6)
  6. Christine de Pizan
  7. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  8. Emma Goldman
  9. Judith Sargent Murray (15)
  10. Rachel Speght
  11. Mary Wollstonecraft (22)

Suffragists: Women Who Worked for the Vote

Here you'll find many of the women who worked for the right to vote -- and often for other women's rights -- from 1848 through 1920. Sometimes they are called First Wave feminists.

Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull biography - a biography of Victoria Woodhull, spiritualist, fortune-teller, stockbroker, newspaper editor and feminist.

Victoria Woodhull Images

Images of Victoria Woodhull, 19th century feminist and free love advocate.

Rebecca West Quotes

Quotes from the writer and social critic Rebecca West

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