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Feminists
YGK These Feminists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British author/philosopher best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), arguing for equal education access | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Wollstonecraft's response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France | A Vindication of the Rights of Men |
| Wollstonecraft's daughter, famous as the author of Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| A Quaker who agitated for both abolitionism and women’s rights; a mentor to Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention | Lucretia Mott |
| The first president of the American Equal Rights Association and co-founder of Swarthmore College | Lucretia Mott |
| Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in Dutch-speaking New York, she gave herself this name in 1843 | Sojourner Truth |
| Truth's most famous speech, delivered at the 1851 Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, where she declared she had "as much muscle as any man" | “Ain’t I a Woman?” |
| The utilitarian philosopher known for On Liberty and Utilitarianism, who co-authored the influential The Subjection of Women with his wife | John Stuart Mill |
| Mill's wife, a major contributor to his works and co-author of the tract The Enfranchisement of Women | Harriet Taylor Mill |
| The activist famous for writing the "Declaration of Sentiments" presented at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, based on the Declaration of Independence | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| The close collaborator of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who co-founded the first women’s temperance society and was arrested for voting in 1872 | Susan B. Anthony |
| The journal founded by Stanton and Anthony in 1868 dedicated to promoting women's rights | The Revolution |
| The most prominent advocate for women’s voting rights in the United Kingdom, co-founder of the WSPU, who called for direct action | Emmeline Pankhurst |
| The Act passed in 1913 in response to hunger-striking suffragettes, allowing them to be released and re-arrested after regaining health | Cat and Mouse Act |
| An early advocate of birth control and reproductive rights who founded the American Birth Control League (which evolved into Planned Parenthood) | Margaret Sanger |
| The newsletter Sanger began writing in 1914 to challenge the Comstock Act prohibiting the mailing of “obscene” material | The Woman Rebel |
| The author known for Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, whose essay A Room of One’s Own argued a woman needs money and space to write | Virginia Woolf |
| The imagined character created by Virginia Woolf to illustrate how women couldn't achieve the status of their brothers due to lack of education | Judith Shakespeare |
| The French writer and philosopher known for her feminist treatise The Second Sex (1949), which contains the line, "One is not born a woman, but becomes one." | Simone de Beauvoir |
| The author of The Feminine Mystique (1963) and co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) | Betty Friedan |
| The term Friedan used to describe the general unhappiness found among Smith College graduates in her 1957 survey | “The problem with no name” |
| The editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine (1965-1997) who argued women should achieve financial security and pursue sexual relationships before marriage in Sex and the Single Girl | Helen Gurley Brown |
| The journalist who founded and edited Ms. magazine, went undercover as a Playboy bunny, and advocated abortion rights | Gloria Steinem |
| Author of the novel The Color Purple (1982) and the essay collection In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens | Alice Walker |
| The 1975 essay by Alice Walker that stimulated interest in Zora Neale Hurston | “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston” |
| Advocate of dress reform whose name was given to the pants known as "bloomers" | Amelia Bloomer |
| Famous abolitionist who attended the Seneca Falls Convention and was nominated (without consent) as Victoria Woodhull's VP candidate | Frederick Douglass |
| Journalist who advocated for women’s rights and is best known for editing the transcendentalist journal The Dial | Margaret Fuller |
| Reformer and women’s rights advocate who wrote the lyrics to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” | Julia Ward Howe |
| Activist who picketed the White House and went on a hunger strike for the 19th Amendment, and later wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) | Alice Paul |
| The first presidential candidate to include women’s voting rights as part of his party’s platform in 1848 (Liberal Party) | Gerrit Smith |
| American voting rights campaigner famous for keeping her maiden name after marriage | Lucy Stone |
| The activist best known as an opponent of lynching, who agitated for the inclusion of black women in women’s groups like the WCTU | Ida B. Wells |
| The first female candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1872 (Equal Rights Party) | Victoria Woodhull |
| The suffragette who died at the Epsom Derby in 1913 when she ran in front of the King's horse with a "Votes for Women" banner | Emily Davison |
| The leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, a more moderate organization than Pankhurst's WSPU | Millicent Fawcett |
| The painting Mary Richardson attacked with a meat cleaver in 1914 to protest Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest | Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus |
| Advocate for the ERA known for declaring that “a woman’s place is in the House — the House of Representatives” | Bella Abzug |
| The first woman elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 | Jeannette Rankin |
| The first woman to serve in both houses of Congress and the first to be placed in nomination for the presidency of a major party | Margaret Chase Smith |
| Author of Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1979), arguing pornography degrades women and leads to violence | Andrea Dworkin |
| Author of The Female Eunuch (1970), arguing that traditional societal and family structures repress women | Germaine Greer |
| The individual who publicized the issue of sexual harassment during Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991 | Anita Hill |
| Author who wrote about the lives of Chinese women in The Woman Warrior (1975) | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| The poet most famous for writing “Diving into the Wreck” (1973) | Adrienne Rich |
| Author of The Beauty Myth (1991), arguing societal constructs of beauty punish women who cannot attain them | Naomi Wolf |
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