List of feminists

This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, originally sorted by surname within each period.

Contents

• Early feminists
• 16th century feminists
• 17th century feminists
• 18th century feminists
• Early and mid 19th century feminists
• Late 19th century and early 20th century feminists
• References

It may include, for instance, earlier authors who did not self-identify as feminists but have been claimed to have furthered "feminist consciousness" by a resistance of male dominance expressed in their works.