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American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College 1970-04-26 Kristina Killgrove: American anthropologist, bioarchaeologist, writer 1977-03-10 L. Taylor Hansen: American writer 1897-11-30 1976-05 Lady Hester Stanhope: British archaeologist 1776 1839 Laura Bohannan: Cultural anthropologist 1922 2002-03-19 ...
Jane Arthur (1827–1907) – educationalist, feminist and activist; campaigned for women's suffrage. Margaret Ashton (1856–1937) – suffragist, local politician, pacifist. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) – politician, socialite, first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
Feminist scholar, author; women's movement, lesbian culture, and women's music historian: 1940–1999: Laura Mulvey: United Kingdom: 1941 – 1940–1999: Sally Rowena Munt: United Kingdom: 1960 – Feminist academic and lesbian theorist, author of Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space (1998) 1940–1999: Jenni Murray: United ...
Anna May Wong a.k.a. Wong Liu Tsong. Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, both in Hollywood and internationally, and the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood ...
Eileen Power (1889–1940) – Middle Ages; Miri Rubin (born 1956) – social and religious history, 1100–1500; Catrien Santing (born 1958) – cultural history and medical history in the late-medieval and early-modern Low Countries; Päivi Setälä (1943–2014) – women's history; Retha Warnicke (born 1939)
Women in the Middle Ages. Women in the Middle Ages in Europe occupied a number of different social roles. Women held the positions of wife, mother, peasant, artisan, and nun, as well as some important leadership roles, such as abbess or queen regnant. The very concept of women changed in a number of ways during the Middle Ages, [ 2] and several ...
^A – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Margaret Atherton's Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett; 1994. ISBN 0-87220-259-3 ^B – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jacqueline Broad's Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth ...
List of women warriors in folklore. The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred ...