Five Famous Feminists - who would you name?

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Whether or not you agree with their particular version of feminism, who are the first five names that spring to mind?
I'd say
Andrea Dworkin
Betty Friedman
Gloria Steinem
Robin Morgan
Mary Neal

wossitlike then SGM?

I was going to say John Stuart Mill. I had a reading from him at my wedding [swottyemoticon]

I would say:
Germaine Greer
Emmeline Pankhurst
Susan Faludi
Gloria Steinem
Maya Angelou

I think I'd add:
Vita Sackville-West
Vera Brittain

to the writers

and Lee Miller just for being all-round amazing

Good lists

Mary
Simone
Germaine
Betty
Andrea

I've read A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and also enjoyed Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies (bar the religious bits) but quite want to extend my knowledge of early feminists.

Was trying to find out how the Married Women's Property Act "happened" and came across the name of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, who sounds fascinating. Ladies of Langham Place?

A friend of mine is all technical and has got a kindle. I was at hers and she told me there's a website where you can read books for free, almost any book. We were talking about feminism and she asked me if I'd heard of John Mills. She logged onto this favourite website of hers and...drum roll... JOhn Stuart Mills was nowhere to be found. THere were lots of other insignificant Mills's, Miller etc.
This is one of the most important books ever written, and it wasn't there.

Patriarchy in action, I tell you

How about the Pankhursts?

Virginia Woolf (because I love A Room of One's Own)

Betty Friedan

I feel I have to include Germaine Greer because the Female Eunuch was the first feminist text I read, although she talks rather a lot of nonsense now.

Love Faludi's Backlash too.

Germaine Greer
Mary Wollstonecraft
Betty Friedan
Marilyn French
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Erica Jong
Mary Robinson
Nuala O'Faolain

dithering about Naomi author of the Beauty Myth and Angela Carter

Ocatavia Hill

Emily Wilding Davison

Jospehine Butler

The Pankhursts

Margaret Sanger

Authors of inspiring fiction:

Margaret Atwood
Doris Lessing
George Eliot
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte

Germaine Greer
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Daly
Susan Faludi
Andrea Dworkin

All mentioned before. Would agree with Vera Brittain too, Angela Carter, Kat Banyard, Margaret Atwood, Gloria Steinem...I could go on and on and on!

Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson,
mary wollstencraft
helena kennedy
pankhurst sisters
andrea dworkin

tx for the Nikki Craft link. I'D never heard of her. She sounds absolutely fascinating.

"In the 1970s, Craft recognized that feminists needed to employ civil disobedience, while using the media, as a strategic tactic. For more than a quarter century, she encouraged women "to break any law that discriminated against them." When she appeared before judges in multiple arrests she consistently refused to accept any form of "rehabilitation," during her arrest, sentencing, or time spent in prison. She welcomed feminist scholars and lawyers to take up street demonstrations alongside her.3 Her actions have been bitingly effective, which in part meant that she spent innumerable nights in jail"

WHy do we not know about these people?

andrea o'reilly

Most famous?

Germaine Greer
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Kate Millett
Valerie Solonas

Most valuable/famous?
Betty Friedan
Barbara Castle
Boston Women's Health Collective
David Steel

Germaine Greer

Natasha Walter

Anne Oakley

Simone de Beauvoir

Susan Brownmiller