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Writer who treated pornography as a political system, not entertainment.

Art historian who helped build the feminist art world in Los Angeles.

Congresswoman who made hats, volume, and women’s power a New York brand.

Writer whose Feminine Mystique named a quiet American unrest.

Orthodox writer who argued that tradition and women’s dignity can share a table.

Organizer remembered as the mother of Pride.

Russian-born essayist who writes about feminism, culture, and liberty.

Belgian filmmaker who turned ordinary time into cinema of the highest order.

Psychologist who traced adult power back to the nursery and asked both parents to raise the child.

Memoirist who made depression speak in the first person and gave a generation a public language.

Essayist who wrote feminism, rock, and freedom in the same key.

British broadcaster who took Woman’s Hour and then joined Radio 4’s Today.

Novelist and poet who put female desire on the bestseller list and refused to whisper about it.

Playwright of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day.

Anthropologist whose essays helped found feminist and queer studies.

Austrian-born historian who built women’s history as a field, not a footnote.

Trial lawyer who turned the courthouse steps into a stage for cases the culture wanted quiet.

Journalist who made second-wave feminism a national conversation.

Short-story writer who made Bronx voices into American literature.

Organizer who moved from Freedom Summer to a lifetime of progressive campaigns.

French writer who made language itself a feminist instrument and cofounded a new university.

Philosopher who asked how gender is performed and remade the humanities around the question.

Artist who set a table for history’s women and made collaboration a monumental form.

Feminist writer and organizer of the late twentieth century.

Painter who raised fans, patterns, and craft to the scale of high art.

Author of The Beauty Myth and a loud voice of 1990s feminism.

Psychologist and writer who challenged how medicine named women’s minds, then kept publishing for decades.

Poet and editor who put Sisterhood Is Powerful into the century’s library.

Biblical scholar who recovered the matriarchs as serious religious figures.

Radical feminist who asked whether biology had to be destiny.

Journalist who forced the culture to treat rape as a public fact, not a private shame.

Pulitzer-winning journalist who mapped the costs of high finance and the backlash against women’s gains.

Shirtwaist striker who wrote a novel that helped change labor law.