Who are the heroic figures of the feminist movement?

Question

There are heroic figures for the black movement such as Martin Luther, Nelson Mandela, etc. Are there any heroic figures for the feminist movement?

Answer 1

In the beginning it was such women as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony; to be followed by Betty Friedan with her book the Feminine Mystique; a book that was completely biased; being that it only paid attention to one side of the coin; being that it focused on women being less than human; rather brainwashed to think that way in my opinion.

Answer 2

Betty Friedan wrote "The Feminine Mystique."

Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, etc.

Answer 3

Mary Wollstencraft, who wrote 'A vindication of the Rights of Women' which challenged Rousseau's notions of female inferioriy (Rousseaus' ideas were highly influential in the late 18th century)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who organised the first women's rights convention in the USA in 1848. suan b. Anthony, who with Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869.  Lucy Stone, who formed the American Women's Suffrage Association in 1870.

Caroline Norton, who in the UK was influential in the passing of the Infanty Custody Bill in 1839, which gave women the right to have custody of their children in cases where they were the innocent party in a divorce.  She wrote English Law for Women in the Nineteenth Century, which helped to obtain more rights for women to get a divorce and retain ownership of their property on marriage.

Carrie Chapman Catt, who led the campaign for women's suffrage in the early 20th century, until the Equal Rights amendment was passed in 1920.

Mrs Pankhurst, who led the Suffragettes in England.

Some modern feminists have had an effect that I personally regard as baleful rather than heroic.  Betty Friedan for exampl,e who in her book The Feminine Mystqiue caricatures stay-at-home wives as zombies, and blames us for all the ills of society, divorce, homosexuality, child abuse, juvenile delinquency etc.

Answer 4

My personal favorite female heroic figure?

Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leaders of the German Spartacist group (early communists), murdered by right-wing military officers with the blessing of the "moderate socialist" government in 1919.

A natural born leader.  Imagine, a Jewish woman from Poland with an enthusiastic following in Germany!

If you read her works, you'll know she was possibly the finest brain that the human race produced in the entire 20th century.

And yet, modern feminists ignore her.

Answer 5

Andrea Dworkin.   She's a hero to many feminists.

http://www.now.org/history/dworkin.html

Answer 6

You may not know him if you are not Turkish, but one of the greatest feminists of all time was a past Turkish leader named Attaturk. He had changed Turkey for the better, and then it got a little backward again when he died, but overall he changed it and formed it to be as good as it is today.

RIP Attaturk

Answer 7

Florence Nightingale was a great heroine but she was not a feminist.

Answer 8

Non-Pro Life Persons

Answer 9

Betty Friedan, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger (though we have mixed feelings about her), Gloria Steinem (at times), Naomi Wolf.

Answer 10

Valerie Solanas

Andrea Dworkin

Rose ODonnell

Answer 11

Rosie O'Donald

Eva Braun

Elizabeth Borden.