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Also Known As Katherine Murray Millet
Born September 14, 1934 • Saint Paul • Minnesota
Died September 6, 2017 (aged 82) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Flying” • “Sexual Politics” • “The Basement”
Role In women’s rights movement
Nancy Friday
American author
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Catharine A. MacKinnon
American feminist and law professor
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
American author and feminist
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago
American artist
Abzug, Bella
Bella Abzug
American politician
Jeannette Rankin, 1918
Jeannette Rankin
American politician
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
American feminist, political activist, and editor
Martin, Anne Henrietta
Anne Henrietta Martin
American reformer and educator
Camille Paglia
American academic
bell hooks
bell hooks
American scholar
Perle Mesta, 1955.
Perle Mesta
American diplomat
Anne Roiphe
American feminist and author
Annette Kolodny
American literary critic
Height, Dorothy
Dorothy Height
American civil and women’s rights activist
Jill Ker Conway
American scholar
Andrea Dworkin
American activist and author
Catherine East
American feminist and public official
Barbara Christian
Caribbean-American educator and critic
Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda
president of Malawi