Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797), British writer and early feminist, c. 1797

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), English philosopher and politician who supported female suffrage, c. 1865

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) (seated) with Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), both were American social activist abolitionist and leaders of the early woman's movement, c. 1900

August Bebel (1840-1913), leader of the German Social Democratic Party and early supporter of the female suffrage, c. 1898

Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was an influential socialist German politician and an international fighter for women's rights, c. 1897

Emmeline (Goulden) Pankhurst (1859-1928) was a leading British women's rights activist, who led the radical suffragist movement, c. 1913

Alice Salomon (1872-1948) was a Jewish-German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline; she emigrated 1938 to the US, c. 1910

Rosa Parks (1913-2005), with Martin Luther King jr., was an African American civil rights activist, c.1955

Gerda Lerner (*1920), feminist historian, author and teacher, born in Vienna; because of her Jewish background she was forced to emigrate to the US in 1939, c. 2006

Women in the Mexican Revolution , 1910-1920

Female partisans in Yugoslavia, 1944

South African women protesting pass laws, 1956

Poster of the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution , 1966-1976

Poster of the African National Congress, 1994