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Feminist theorists

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Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Gloria Steinem
American activist and journalist (born 1934)
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)
bell hooks
American author and activist (1952–2021)
Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
Andrea Dworkin
American feminist writer (1946–2005)
Hélène Cixous
French philosopher and writer
Luce Irigaray
Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)
Camille Paglia
American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)
Nancy Fraser
American philosopher
Sara Ahmed
British-Australian scholar (b. 1985)
Roxane Gay
American writer
Wendy Brown
American political theorist
Anne Fausto-Sterling
American sexologist
Griselda Pollock
British art historian
Rosi Braidotti
Italian-Australian feminist (1954-)
Bracha L. Ettinger
Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst (born 1948)
Elizabeth Grosz
Australian philosopher, feminist theorist, and academic
Chantal Chawaf
French writer
Elsa Dorlin
French philosopher
Pauline Harmange
French writer and feminist
Judith Cora Brown
American historian
Rita Felski
American academic
Žarana Papić
Yugoslav feminist (1949-2002)
Anna G. Jónasdóttir
Icelandic political scientist
Rozsika Parker
British art historian (1945-2010)
Josephine Donovan
American professor
Mary Susan McIntosh
British sociologist, feminist, political activist and LGBTQ+ rights campaigner
Christia Mercer
philosopher
Alexandra Juhasz
Feminist writer
Anne Phillips
British political theorist
Lydia Sklevicky
Croatian feminist (1952–1990)
Margarete Stokowski
Polish-German essayist
Nancy K. Miller
American literary critic
Alison Kafer
American academic
Despina Stratigakos
architectural historian, writer, and professor
Naomi Schor
American academic
Ann Ferguson
feminist philosopher
Mira Schor
American artist (born 1950)
Claire Colebrook
Australian cultural theorist
Judith Lorber
American sociologist
Lisa Adkins
Australian economic sociologist
Greta Gaard
American feminist
Jan Boxill
academic, philosopher, women's rights activist (1939-)