Feminist role models?

Question

Which women do you admire and why?

Answer 1

the 'riot grrrl' bands who played their music as good as the lads!

Answer 2

Audre Lorde, as a black, L*****n, mother, warrior, poet.

Alice Paul

Emiline Pankhurst

Gloria Stienem

Elizabeth Cady Staton

Answer 3

I admire Gloria Steinem, she's very witty, I like her writing, she founded Ms magazine, and in the 1970's whenever the right wingers would say all the feminists were ugly lesbians, there she was.

Audre Lorde was amazing-she challenged both the racism and homophobia of the 2nd wave feminists-royally enraging a number of feminist women. She was a civil rights and anti-war activist and was openly L*****n when homophobia was rampant. She founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, which was the first U.S. publisher for women of color. She was an incredible poet. 3rd wave feminism owes her a huge debt-a great deal of feminist theory is based on her ideas that racism, sexism, and homophobia were linked together and were used to separate us from each other.

Charlotte Bunch is a writer and activist who works on international women's and human rights issues. I loved her book Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action (she's written over 12 books on international human rights and feminist issues)

Ani DiFranco rocks-I've paid attention to her singing career since she created her own label so she could control the content-she didn't care about fame if she had to do what others wanted instead of what moved her. She is an awesome performer. You name an issue-she's sung about it: racism, sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights, poverty, and her bisexuality. She was popular pretty much from word of mouth and constant touring-since she didn't have a big record label behind her. She has won a Grammy.

Answer 4

Hope May PhD.: Professor at Central Michigan University, expert on Aristotle, law student (perhaps lawyer by now).

Answer 5

Josephine Baker - an artist who embraced all things creative and a supporter of both women's rights and African American rights.

My mother - sole breadwinner for my family, teacher, caregiver to my paralyzed father and myself, and a lady who gives everything to her students but takes sh*t from no one.

Sister Helen Prejean - a woman who shows that religion is not always restrictive if you take Christ's message of acceptance and practice what he preached, a crusader in the fight to abolish the death penalty.

There are many, many more, but those three probably had the biggest impact on me personally.

Answer 6

Susan Faludi (I consider Backlash the definitive work on feminism).