women's rightist

1. is a type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform
   subtypes: suffragette - a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)
   specific instances:

   • beauvoir, simone de beauvoir - French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)
   • betty friedan, betty naomi friedan, betty naomi goldstein friedan, friedan - United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
   • charlotte anna perkins gilman, gilman - United States feminist (1860-1935)
   • lucretia coffin mott, mott - United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)
   • alice paul, paul - United States feminist (1885-1977)
   • elizabeth cady stanton, stanton - United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)
   • gloria steinem, steinem - United States feminist (born in 1934)
   • lucy stone, stone - United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
   • sojourner truth, truth - United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
   • mary wollstonecraft, mary wollstonecraft godwin, wollstonecraft - English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)
   • fanny wright, frances wright, wright - United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)
   belongs to: feminism, feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement - the movement aimed at equal rights for women
   same as: feminist, libber, women's liberationist

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