2. Gloria Steinem
• Wrote an article on sexual revolution for Esquire about her
time as a playboy bunny
• Protested New York abortion laws
• Helped start the Women's Action Alliance
• Editor and Founder of Ms. Magazine
• lobbied state legislators in support of the Equal Rights
Amendment
• Published Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions,
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem and Moving
Beyond Words
• “feminism is about the ability to choose what's right at
each time of our lives” (McGuire, Gloria Steinem)
3. Nikki Craft
• Radical Feminist
• Protested against the stereotypical views of femininity that are sexist
• One of the first feminists to defy nudity laws and protest against
beauty pageants
• Participant in the Naturist movement
• Investigator of sex offenders within Naturist and nudist environments.
• Encouraged women "to break any law that discriminated against
them."
• Arrested 50 times for acts of civil disobedience
• Pro-legalized abortion
• Founded Women Armed For Self Protection (WASP), Citizens for
Media Responsibility, Regional Pedophile Killer Association ("The Nikki
Wiki: All About Nikki Craft.")
4. Phyllis Schalfly
• Anti-feminist
• Believed that feminism was taking away the
responsibility to be lady like and motherly
• Extreme conservative
• Founded STOP ERA (stop taking our privileges)
• Founded the Eagle Forum
• Helped draft the political platform: Family
Manifesto
5. Karen Nussbaum
• Cofounded and led the National Association of
Working Women
• Served as director of the Department of
Labor's Women's Bureau
• Director of the AFL-CIO's Working Women's
Department (“Karen Nussbaum”)
6. Melissa Farley
• Founder and Director, Prostitution Research and Education
• Clinical Psychologist
• PhD, University of Iowa College of Education, 1973
("Melissa Farley, PhD" )
• Strong advocate for feminism and anti-prostitution
• "Legal sex businesses provide locations where sexual
harassment, sexual exploitation, and violence against
women are perpetrated with impunity. State-sponsored
prostitution endangers all women and children in that acts
of sexual predation are normalized."
• Author of "Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart," Violence
Against Women
• Organized the National Rampage Against Penthouse
7. Hilary Clinton
• The former first lady of the United States
• Former senator from New York
• Former Secretary of State
• One of the world's leading advocates of women's rights
• Praised for “intelligence and independence”
• Former chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on
Women in the Profession
• Chair the President's Task Force on National Health Reform
• She was the only first lady who had a successful career before her
husband was elected president
• The first First Lady to hold an elected office
• Democratic presidential nominee
• Launched Women for Hillary councils in many states (Frost-
Knappman)
8. Betty Friedan
• Author of The Feminine Mystique which could be seen
as the start of the second wave of the feminist
movement
• Cofounder of the National Organization for Women
(NOW)
• “life as a full-time suburban housewife is intellectually
demeaning and emotionally unsatisfying”
• active advocate for women's rights in the Democratic
Party
• Help find the National Abortion Rights Action League
and National Women's Political Caucus
• Died in 2006 (McGuire, “Betty Friedan”)
9. Charlotte Bunch
• Lesbian Feminist
• Formed The Furies to raise awareness to lesbian feminism
• Co-founded Quest: A Feminist Quarterly
• Advocate of global women's human rights and girls in Third
World countries
• Member of the board of directors of the National Gay Task
Force
• Organized events for D.C. Women's Liberation
• Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers
University
• Founded Center for Women's Global Leadership (“Demelza
Co”)
10. Donna M. Hughes, Ph.D.
• A leading international researcher on human trafficking.
• Has done research on sex trafficking in the United States, Russia, Ukraine,
and Korea.
• She does research and writing on women's rights. including violence,
slavery, sexual exploitation, Islamic fundamentalism and other women’s
groups organized resistance to violence and exploitation
• Is consulted by governments and non-governmental organizations on
policies about women's human rights, trafficking of women and girls for
sexual exploitation.
• She is supported by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
• Trafficking, Slavery, and Sexual Exploitation
• She has also written research Reports, opinion and analysis articles, and
bulletins of Citizens Against Trafficking
• Advocate for Trafficking for World Cup Games ("Donna M. Hughes, Ph.D.“)
11. Saundra O’Connor
• First woman named to the supreme court
• Experienced the classic female struggle of sexism in a
predominantly male profession, overcoming many
obstacles to reach her position as a judge on the Arizona
court of Appeals (Woodger 56)
• Moderate Conservative
• Pro- ERA
• "Posses qualities of temperament, fairness, intellectual
capacity and devotion to the public good which have
characterized the 101 brethren [supreme court justices]"
who have preceded her. -- Ronald Regan (Woodger 57)
• Liberal on the ideas of abortion