List of Women Thinkers

This is a very partial list, meant only to give you some preliminary ideas. Please feel free to pursue other subjects whose work interests you.

Abbott, Edith
Addams, Jane
Antin, Mary
Arendt, Hannah
Austin, Mary
Baker, Josephine
Beard, Mary Ritter
Benedict, Ruth
Bernard, Jessie
Bourke-White, Margaret
Breckenridge, Sophonisba
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brothers, Joyce
Buck, Pearl S.
Butler, Judith
Calderone, Mary
Calkins, Mary
Carson, Rachel
Cather, Willa
Chesler, Phyllis
Cheney, Lynne
Chesnut, Mary
Chicago, Judy
Child, Julia
Chodorow, Nancy
Chopin, Kate
Clark, Mamie Phipps
Daly, Mary
Davis, Angela
Davis, Katherine Bement
Day, Dorothy
Deutsch, Helene
Didion, Joan
Duncan, Isadora
Eastman, Crystal
Eddy, Mary Baker
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Elliot, Martha
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
Emerson, Gloria
Firestone, Shulamith
Fossey, Dian
Friedan, Betty
Fromm-Reichmann, Frieda
Gilligan, Carol
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Ginsberg, Ruth Bader
Goldman, Emma
Goodall, Jane
Hansberry, Lorraine
Harraway, Donna
Hellman, Lillian
Himmelbarb, Gertrude
Hinkle, Beatrice
Holliday, Billie
Hooker, Evelyn
hooks, bell
Horney, Karen
Hurston, Zora Neale
Jacobs, Jane
James, Alice
Kelly, Florence
Kirchwey, Freda
Lange, Dorothea
Le Sueur, Meridel
Levertov, Denise
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
Lynd, Helen
MacKinnon, Catherine
McCarthy, Mary
McClintock, Barbara
Morre, Marianne
Mead, Margaret
Millett, Kate
Morrison, Toni
Murphy, Lois Barclay
O'Keefe, Georgia
Olsen, Tillie
Parsons, Elsie Clews
Parker, Dorothy
Paul, Alice
Plath, Sylvia
Powdermaker, Hortense
Rand, Ayn
Rich, Adrienne
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Sanger, Margaret
Satir, Virginia
Smedley, Agnes
Smith, Lillian
Sontag, Susan
Stein, Gertrude
Steinem, Gloria
Stopes, Marie
Taft, Jessie
Trilling, Diana
Van Kleek, Mary
Van Waters, Miriam
Walker, Alice
Wells, Ida B.
Welty, Eudora
Wooley, Helen Thompson