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Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences. During her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative , a history of the French Revolution , a conduct book , and a children's book.
Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women. She is remembered for her early feminism, and her close relations to dissenting and radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend. [1]
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who ...
It's worth noting that while this theme of female silence is prevalent throughout the written fairy tales published in Germany and enduring in America today, this trend wasn't always the norm: Charles Perrault's French renditions of these stories place greater value on beautiful women who are also articulate.
Feminist; first woman in Britain to officially train racehorses. [100] 1875–1939: Diane Nash: United States: 1938 – 1960s Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights proponent: 1875–1939: Malak Hifni Nasif: Egypt: 1886: 1918: Feminist writer [101] 1875–1939: Anaïs Nin: United States, France: 1903: 1977: 1875–1939 ...
1978: Sisterwrite, Britain's first feminist bookshop, [173] opened in 1978; it was run as a collective. [174] [175] [176] 1978: Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), founded 1978; was a feminist umbrella collective organising under a political black identity [177] 1979: The Kennel Club began admitting women members in 1979 ...
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum noted their endeavor has already identified more than 500 women in science who worked within the Smithsonian itself and whose contributions to ...
Baker was invited to restage her seminal installation as part of the museum’s Women in Revolt! show, which opens this week and offers the first major survey of feminist art in the UK, with ...