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Kate Lister (writer)
Kate Lister (Kathryn Louise Lister, born 1981) is a British historian, author, and columnist, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, creator of Whores of Yore, and author of A Curious History of Sex and Harlots, Whores and Hackabouts.
Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934–2017), American feminist writer, sculptor, and activist; author of Sexual Politics (1970), the foundational radical feminist analysis of patriarchy, drawn from her Columbia PhD thesis; also known for The Loony-Bin Trip and the Millett Center for the Arts.
Lilian Ngoyi
Lilian Masediba Ngoyi, known as Ma Ngoyi, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and trade unionist who led 20,000 women in the 1956 anti-pass march on the Union Buildings.
List of feminists
List of feminists: notable feminists from Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Anthony, and Pankhurst through Friedan, Steinem, Greer, and Davis to Crenshaw, Walker, and Burke, organized by feminism's four waves.
List of women's organizations
Women's organizations, from the International Council of Women (founded 1888) and International Alliance of Women (1904) to DAWN and UN Women coalitions, advance gender equality through UN advocacy, development programs, and civil society networks.
Loretta Ross
Loretta J. Ross, born 1953, is an African American activist and Smith College professor who co-created the reproductive justice framework in 1994, co-founded SisterSong, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), English moral and political philosopher, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792); wife of William Godwin, mother of Mary Shelley, damaged posthumously by Godwin's 1798 Memoirs.
MeToo movement
MeToo movement: anti-sexual-harassment campaign founded as 'me too.' by Tarana Burke in 2006; viral in October 2017 after Alyssa Milano's tweet following Weinstein allegations; millions of posts, global spread, and workplace and legal changes.
Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, American feminist author, wrote The Beauty Myth (1991), a bestseller central to third-wave feminism; later books include The End of America and Outrages, which was recalled over factual errors.
National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist advocacy organization founded on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C. by Betty Friedan and 48 others.
Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي)
Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي), 1931–2021, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, novelist, and feminist; author of Women and Sex and Woman at Point Zero; jailed under Sadat in 1981, exiled under death threats, wrote over 50 works.
Nevertheless, she persisted
"Nevertheless, she persisted" is a feminist slogan from Mitch McConnell's February 2017 Senate rebuke of Elizabeth Warren during the Jeff Sessions confirmation debate; it became a viral rallying cry, merchandise phenomenon, and 2018 Women's History Month theme.
New Woman
The New Woman: feminist ideal and cultural figure of the 1880s-1890s English fiction, coined by Sarah Grand and Ouida in 1894, an educated, independent, bicycling woman who challenged Victorian marriage and influenced global feminism.
Nilza Iraci
Nilza Iraci is a Brazilian Black feminist, a founding member of Geledés – Instituto da Mulher Negra, nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize campaign.
Nísia Floresta
Nísia Floresta was the pseudonym of Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto (1810–1885), a Brazilian educator, poet, travel writer, and feminist generally identified as the pioneer of feminism in Brazil.
Noof Al Maadeed
Noof Al Maadeed (نوف المعاضيد), Qatari women's rights defender who fled to the UK in 2019, campaigned against male guardianship, returned to Qatar in 2021, and has not spoken publicly since March 2023.
NotAllMen
#NotAllMen is a Twitter hashtag, first used in 2009, by which men object to perceived generalizations about male violence; it rose in 2014 after the UCSB shooting, prompting the counter-hashtag #YesAllWomen, and resurged in 2021 after Sarah Everard's murder.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a 2008 American documentary directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney, about the Liberian women's peace movement.
Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker (born 1969), American writer and activist, daughter of Alice Walker; coined "third wave" feminism in her 1992 Ms. article "Becoming the Third Wave" and co-founded the Third Wave Fund; author of Black, White, and Jewish.
Riot grrrl
Riot grrrl, an underground feminist punk movement and music style from the early 1990s Pacific Northwest and Washington, D.C., tied to third-wave feminism, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, zines, and the Riot Grrrl Manifesto.
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter, born from a 1942 Evans and Loeb song and tied to Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post cover and Miller's "We Can Do It!" Westinghouse poster, symbolizes American women war workers of World War II, later reclaimed as a feminist icon.
Second-wave feminism
Second-wave feminism, the women's movement of the 1960s to early 1980s following first-wave suffragism, addressed workplace equality, reproductive rights, and domestic life. Key figures include Friedan, Steinem, Beauvoir, and Black feminist critics.
SlutWalk
SlutWalk: transnational feminist protest movement founded in Toronto in 2011 after a police officer's victim-blaming remark at York University; marches against slut-shaming and rape culture, spread to over 50 countries.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Van Wagenen, c. 1797-1883), New York-born abolitionist and women's rights orator; won the 1828 case recovering her son Peter; the famous 'Ain't I a Woman?' refrain comes from Gage's 1863 version, not the 1851 transcript.
Sue Pritzker
Sue (Susan S.) Pritzker, born Susan Stowell in 1948, is an American philanthropist, wife of Nicholas Pritzker, and co-president of the Libra Foundation, a social justice funder founded in 2002 with about $428 million in assets.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American Quaker-born reformer and organizer for woman suffrage; NWSA co-founder, 1872 voting-arrest defendant, coeditor of History of Woman Suffrage; the Nineteenth Amendment was long called the Anthony Amendment.
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke (born 1973, Bronx, New York) is the American civil rights activist who founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 in Selma, Alabama; her phrase became the viral #MeToo hashtag in October 2017 after Alyssa Milano's tweet.
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer's 1970 feminist polemic (MacGibbon & Kee; McGraw-Hill 1971), argues patriarchal femininity renders women eunuchs; instant bestseller, second-wave classic, banned in Rhodesia, sequel The Whole Woman 1999.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's 1963 Norton book naming 'the problem that has no name,' critiqued postwar American housewifery and is widely credited with igniting second-wave US feminism, amid lasting criticisms of its white middle-class focus.
Third-wave feminism
Third-wave feminism is the feminist movement that began in the United States in the early 1990s, reacting to second-wave feminism, post-feminist backlash, the Anita Hill hearings, and Riot Grrrl, with intersectionality as its core concept.