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This list of feminists catalogues individuals who identify or have been identified as proponents of feminist political, economic, social, and personal principles for gender equality.
Early feminists
Born before 1499.
Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments | Source |
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1200–1300 | Helen of Anjou | Serbia | 1236 | 1314 | Serbian queen, feminist, establisher of women's schools | [1][2] |
1300–1400 | Christine de Pizan | Italy | 1365 | 1430 | Medieval court writer | [3] |
1300–1400 | Jefimija | Serbia | 1349 | 1405 | Serbian politician, poet, diplomat | [4] |
1400–1499 | Laura Cereta | Italy | 1469 | 1499 | Humanist and feminist writer | [5] |
1400–1499 | Balaram Das | India | unknown | unknown | 15th century Odia poet; first attempt in India towards feminism | [6] |
1400–1499 | Isabel de Villena | Spain | 1430 | 1460 | Feminist nun | [7][8] |
16th-century feminists
Born between 1500 and 1599.
Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments | Source |
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1500–1599 | India Juliana | Present-day Paraguay | fl. 1542 | fl. 1542 | Guaraní woman who lived in the newly-founded Asunción, known for killing a Spanish colonist between 1538 and 1542 and urging other indigenous women to do the same. | [9][10][11][12] |
1500–1599 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | Germany | 1486 | 1535 | Male feminist, wrote Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women | [13] |
1500–1599 | Jane Anger | United Kingdom | fl. 1589 | fl. 1589 | Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women | [14] |
1500–1599 | Marie de Gournay | France | 1565 | 1645 | Protofeminist writer of Egalité des hommes et des femmes (The equality of men and women) | [15] |
1500–1599 | Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi | Italy | 1501–1600 | c. 1593 | Protofeminist writer of The Worth of Women | [16] |
1500–1599 | Lucrezia Marinella | Italy | c. 1571 | 1653 | Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights | [17] |
1500–1599 | Izumo no Okuni | Japan | c. 1571 | unknown | Originator of kabuki theater | [18] |
17th-century feminists
Born between 1600 and 1699.
Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments | Source |
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1600–1699 | Mary Astell | United Kingdom | c. 1666 | 1731 | English feminist writer and rhetorician | [17][19][20] |
1600–1699 | Aphra Behn | United Kingdom | 1640 | 1689 | Writer and protofeminist | [21] |
1600–1699 | Anne Bradstreet | United Kingdom | 1612 | 1672 | North American colonial poet | [22] |
1600–1699 | Sophia Elisabet Brenner | Sweden | 1659 | 1724 | Writer and women's rights activist | [23] |
1600–1699 | François Poullain de la Barre | France | 1647 | 1725 | Male feminist philosopher | [17] |
1600–1699 | Sr. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | Mexico | 1648 | 1695 | Hieronymite nun, scholar and poet | [24] |
1600–1699 | Ninon de l'Enclos | France | 1620 | 1795 | Author, courtesan, and patron of the arts | [citation needed] |
18th-century feminists
Born between 1700 and 1799.
Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments | Source |
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1700–1799 | Abigail Adams | United States | 1744 | 1818 | Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams | [25] |
1700–1799 | Catharina Ahlgren | Sweden | 1734 | 1800 | Female Swedish publisher and writer. | [26] |
1700–1799 | Annestine Beyer | Denmark | 1795 | 1884 | Pioneer of women's education | [27] |
1700–1799 | Eleanor Butler | Ireland | 1739 | 1829 | One of the Ladies of Llangollen | [28] |
1700–1799 | Marquis de Condorcet | France | 1743 | 1794 | [17] | |
1700–1799 | Olympe de Gouges | France | 1748 | 1793 | Playwright and political activist who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791 | [19] |
1700–1799 | Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt | France | 1762 | 1817 | Politician | [29] |
1700–1799 | Francisco de Miranda, Gen. | Venezuela | 1750 | 1816 | Published an impassioned plea for women's education. | [30] |
1700–1799 | Madeleine de Puisieux | France | 1720 | 1798 | Writer | [31] |
1700–1799 | Dorothea Erxleben | Germany | 1715 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=List_of_feminists