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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 ...
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.
First-wave feminist; Woman Suffrage advocate [25] [35] 1800–1874: Bella Guerin: Australia: 1858: 1923: Socialist feminist; first woman to graduate from an Australian university: 1800–1874: Marianne Hainisch: Austria: 1839: 1936: Proponent of women's right to work and to receive education: 1800–1874: Marion Coates Hansen: United Kingdom ...
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain; Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities
This group became one of the first organised women's movements in Britain. They pursued many causes vigorously, including their Married Women's Property Committee. In 1854, she published Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women , [ 13 ] which helped to promote the passage of the Married Women's Property Act 1882 .
1963: The Feminine Mystique was published; it is a book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with starting the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the early 1960s in the United States, and spread throughout the Western ...
First South Asian minister in the Scottish Government Humza Yousaf , SNP Minister for Europe and International Development (2012–2016), then Minister for Transport and the Islands (2016–2018), then Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2018–2021), then Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care , (2021-2023) [ 19 ]
Millicent Fawcett came from a radical family. Her sister was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson an English physician and feminist, and the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain. Elizabeth was elected mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908 and gave speeches for suffrage. [44] Emily Davies became an editor of a feminist publication, Englishwoman's ...