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Thanks
for your note to FEMINIST.COM.
Pinpointing the "leading female
and male activists of feminism"
is quite a difficult task. For
starters there is:
Betty Friedan (who wrote The
Feminine Mystique and co-founded
the
National Organization for Women);
Gloria Steinem (who co-founded
Ms.
Magazine, the Ms.
Foundation for Women, Voters
for Choice....); Ani Difranco
(a musician); Mia Hamm (the
famed soccer player); Byllye
Avery (who founded the National
Black Women's Health Project);
Judy Norsigan (who founded the
Boston
Women's Health Book Collective);
Anna Maria Nieves (founder of
Urban X); Marlene Friend (who
runs many pro-choice organizations
and who is a professor at Hampshire
College); Marcia Gillespie (who
is the editor-in-chief of Ms.
Magazine); Dorothy Height,
Florynce Kennedy, Patricia Ireland,
Ellie Smeal.....the list goes
on and on to include women who
are changing women's fate in
large and small ways. Some do
it in issue specific ways and
some are like umbrellas covering
many issues.
As for men--John Stoltenberg,
Michael Kimmel, Robert Allen,
Joe Kelly......again the list
goes on and on. Good luck with
whatever you need this information
for.
—Amy
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