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Tristan Taormino (born 1971)
actor, film director, sex educator, pornographic actor, film actor, women's rights activist, film producer, podcaster
- Wesleyan University
Erica Jong (born 1942)
poet, women's rights activist
- Barnard College, Columbia University
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
diplomat, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, journalist, peace activist, human rights activist, columnist
- New School, Allenswood Boarding Academy
Marge Piercy (born 1936)
poet, women's rights activist, activist, climate activist
- University of Michigan, Northwestern University
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
journalist, philosopher, women's rights activist, autobiographer, social reformer, social critic, suffragette, peace activist, human rights activist, political theorist, sociologist
- Rockford University
Susan Faludi (born 1959)
women's rights activist, journalist, feminist
- Harvard University
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
actor, women's rights activist, abolitionist
- Emma Willard School