Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797 · United Kingdom · Politics, Philosophy, Literature
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman founded feminist political theory.
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- John Stuart Mill
1806 – 1873 · Political Economy, Philosophy
The Subjection of Women continues Wollstonecraft's Vindication in Victorian argument.
- Kate Sheppard
1848 – 1934 · Peace, History
Suffrage organising in New Zealand draws on the Vindication's rights argument.
- Marie Stopes
1880 – 1958 · Medicine, Biology
Rights-based argument for women's autonomy underlies her birth-control campaigning.
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