Feminist Theory

Moore, Henrietta L. (1988). Feminism and anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Ortner is known for her contributions to social theory and feminist theory, as well as for her ethnographic work in Nepal and the U.S.

Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies.

She has made significant contributions to the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies, historical anthropology, feminist theory, and affect.

Donna Jeanne Haraway (born September 6, 1944) is an American philosopher, who contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a scholar in contemporary ecofeminism.

Sara Ahmed (born 30 August 1969) is a British-Australian writer and scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, affect theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism.

She is considered one of the leading theoreticians in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy, and the history and theory of the commons.

Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

She is a feminist theorist and artist in contemporary New European Painting who invented the concepts of the matrixial space and matrixial gaze and related concepts around trauma, aesthetics and ethics.

Known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, she has written more than seventy books dealing with multiple genres: theatre, literary and feminist theory, art criticism, autobiography and poetic fiction.

Rosi Braidotti (; Italian: [braiˈdɔtːi]; born 28 September 1954) is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician.

Her research and expertise has covered feminist theory, feminist criticism, animal ethics, and both early modern and American (particularly 19th century) literature with a special focus on American writer Sarah Orne Jewett and the local colorists.

She developed and taught some of the first courses in the sociology of gender, women's studies, and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and the graduate school, where she was the first coordinator of the women's studies certificate program in 1988-1991.

Michèle Veronica Barrett (born 1949) is an English sociologist, feminist theorist and literary critic.

Miller (born 21 February 1941) is an American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist.

Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759, September 10, 1797) was a British intellectual, writer, philosopher, and early feminist.

Although describing herself as a "radical feminist," late in life she surprised many supporters when she chose to marry and stood by her husband during his illness which caused his death, three years later.

Feminism Martineau is regularly depicted as a leading feminist of her era, and a majority of her work included aspects of feminist ideology.

She founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.

She gained national attention for her book Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990.

Connell, is an Australian feminist sociologist and professor emerita at the University of Sydney, mainly known for co-founding the field of masculinity studies and coining the concept of hegemonic masculinity, as well as for her work on Southern theory.

Fatema Mernissi (Arabic: فاطمة المرنيسي, romanized: Fāṭima Marnīsī; 27 September 1940-30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (; born 24 February 1942) is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic.

Harding (March 29, 1935, March 5, 2025) was an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science, who directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005.

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author.

Nancy Fraser (; born May 20, 1947) is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A.

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.

== Career == Hartsock was a feminist philosopher.

Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946, April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography.

Audre Lorde ( AW-dree LORD; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934, November 17, 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet, and civil rights activist.

Camille Anna Paglia ( PAH-lee-ə; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic, social critic, and feminist.

Selma James (born Selma Deitch; formerly Weinstein; August 15, 1930) is an American writer, feminist, and social activist who is co-author of the women's movement book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (with Mariarosa Dalla Costa), co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike.

Brenda Feigen (born 1944) is an American feminist activist, film producer, and attorney.

Alison Kafer is an American academic specializing in feminist, queer, and disability theory.

== Scholarly interests == A feminist historian of early modern Europe and Renaissance Italy, Brown’s scholarly interests include issues in higher education and the history of women, gender and sexuality.

Rowan Ellis is a British feminist content creator, author and LGBTQ rights advocate.

was an American feminist, activist, and writer.