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Susan B. Anthony
(b.1820, North Adams, Massachusetts; d. 1906, Rochester, New York)Susan B. Anthony's life and work offer a glimpse into the extraordinary events of both the abolitionist movement and the women's suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century. Anthony was... Read more

Aspasia
(b. circa 470 B.C., Miletus, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey); d. circa 410 B.C., location unknown)Aspasia of Miletus was a scholar and philosopher whose intellectual influence distinguished her in Athenian culture, which treated women as second-class citizens during the 5th century B.C. She used her... Read more

Elizabeth Blackwell
(b. 1821, Bristol, England; d. 1910, Sussex, England)In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. The English-born physician opened the field for other women while founding important medical... Read more

Hypatia
(b. 370, Alexandria, Egypt; d. 415, Alexandria, Egypt)Hypatia of Alexandria was the first woman to make significant advances in the fields of mathematics and philosophy and was also a respected teacher and astronomer. Hypatia was... Read more

Margaret Sanger
(b. 1879, Corning, New York; d. 1966, Tucson, Arizona)Margaret Sanger was an activist who pioneered the fight for American reproductive freedom in the early 20th century. She was born Margaret Louise Higgins, in Corning, New York... Read more

Ethel Smyth
(b. 1858, London, England; d. 1944, Woking, England)Ethel Smyth was a twentieth-century British composer and a champion of women's rights and female musicians. During her lifetime, she composed symphonies, choral works (musical pieces written for a choir)... Read more

Trotula
(b. unknown; d. 1097, Salerno, Italy)Trotula of Salerno (also known as Trotula of Ruggerio) was an eleventh-century Italian doctor, who is frequently regarded as the world's first gynecologist. Her many achievements in the male-dominated specialty... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft
(b. 1759, London, England; d. 1797, London, England)Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women's rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most... Read more

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