Category
page 1Feminist studies scholars

Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)

Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Germaine Greer
Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)
bell hooks
American author and activist (1952–2021)

Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
Fatema Mernissi
1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist

Hélène Cixous
French philosopher and writer
Karen Armstrong
author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Kate Millett
American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)

Monique Wittig
French writer (1935-2003)

Luce Irigaray
Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)
Donna Haraway
American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies

Mary Daly
American feminist philosopher and theologian (1928–2010)

Shulamith Firestone
Canadian born US feminist scholar, activist and writer (1945-2012)
Chantal Mouffe
Belgian post-marxist political theorist (born 1943)
Nancy Fraser
American philosopher
Mary Astell
English feminist writer (1666-1731)
Catharine MacKinnon
American feminist and legal activist

Marilyn Waring
New Zealand politician and academic

Etel Adnan
Lebanese-American writer and artist (1925-2021)
Barbara Ehrenreich
American writer and journalist (1941–2022)

Amina Wadud
American Islamic scholar

Joanna Russ
American author (1937-2011)
Carol J. Adams
author, animal rights activist

Sara Ahmed
British-Australian scholar (b. 1985)
Laura Mulvey
British feminist film theorist
Urvashi Butalia
Indian feminist and historian
Leila Ahmed
Egyptian-American writer and professor
Shere Hite
German-American sexologist
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory (1942-2004)

Nancy J. Chodorow
American feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst

Evelyn Fox Keller
American physicist, author and feminist
Riane Eisler
Austrian-American sociologist
Gayle Rubin
American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist
Marilyn French
Novelist, critic (1929-2009)
Susan Brownmiller
American feminist and author (1935–2025)
Mahnaz Afkhami
Minister of gender equality, Human rights and gender equality activist
Helen Gurley Brown
American author, publisher, and businesswoman (1922–2012)
Seyla Benhabib
Turkish-American philosopher and political scientist (born 1950)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
American sociologist (1940-)
Jo Freeman
American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney
Ellen Willis
American writer
Barbara Smith
American activist and academic (born 1946)
Elaine Showalter
American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues
Juliet Mitchell
Feminist psychologist
Griselda Pollock
British art historian
Sarojini Sahoo
Indian (Odia) Writer

Maria Mies
German sociologist (1931–2023)
Dorothy E. Smith
Canadian anthropologist
Linda Martín Alcoff
American philosopher
Jasodhara Bagchi
Indian writer and activist
Carol Hanisch
American feminist and writer
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist (1875-1941)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Indian feminism and women's studies professor
Wendy McElroy
Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist (born 1951)
Ebba Witt-Brattström
Swedish literary scholar and feminist (born 1953)
Bracha L. Ettinger
Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst (born 1948)
Lucy R. Lippard
American art curator
Catherine Clément
French writer and philosopher (born 1939)

Val Plumwood
Australian philosopher (1939–2008)