Women's Programs

• Use the Credo Reference database to help you learn the definitions of concepts & overviews of topics
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  • Women's rights
  • Ecofeminism
  • Feminist literary criticism
  • Intersectionality

Here are some links to brief biographies of 15 selected mostly western U.S. feminists. You can also look up other names in Credo. It may also be helpful to see the references linked in Wikipedia entries as well, particularly for those women who are currently living.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
• Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
• Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
• Gloria Steinem (1934-)
• Nellie Wong (1934-)
• Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2008)
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
• Alice Walker (1944-)
• Patricia Hill Collins (1948-)
• bell hooks (1952-)
• Cherrie Moraga (1952-)
• Mari Matsuda (1956-)
• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959-)