Important Women in History: I need help!

[Djiril]

I just got an e-mail from the intern who runs the women's club at my school, asking for the names of important international women in history. Can you folks help me think of some?
There are the names she has so far:


Native:

Coretta Scott King

Sacajawea

Maya Angelou

Marian Wright Edelman

Septima Clark

Tonita Pena

Kaitchkona Winema

LaDonna Harris

Winona KaDuke


African:

Fannie Lou Hamer

Ella Backer

Dorothy Height

Shirley Chisholm

Dr. C. DeLores Tucker

Sojourner Truth

Assata Shakur


White:

Marie Curie

Jane Adams

Constance Motley


Latino:

Dolores Huerta


Jewish / Italian:

Ani Defranco

[2steps]

I did a quick google search and found this page for you to take a look at. There is information about each woman too

http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/100import/

[Toby Stimpson]

Can I just ask why she has them listed under racial headings? Does that have anything to do with their importance in history. I mean I can think of a lot of important women in history but their races dont necessary have anything to do with it...and isnt technically Italy a part of Europe and white?....Im sorry but it bothers me to see it set up like that.

Namaste

Tobias

[2steps]

I think it's just to show where they came from or lived

[Toby Stimpson]

However, that being said...not all whites, not all Blacks, not all Latinos live in one area of the world? Im sorry, just a little thing of mine whenever I see soemthing like that...it is just a little baissed to me.

hehe just so Im more helpful than critical, here some people I can thnk of:

Harriet Tubman: Heroine of the Underground Railway

Agnes Macphail: A very early Canadian Suffragist who helped women in the Empire gain the vote

Queen Elizabeth I: The first major queen in English history.

Mother Theresa

Indira Gandhi

erm...cant think of any more right now, I am sooo tired

[2steps]

cleopatra

[David19]

Elanor(sp) of Aquitaine, she was married to Henry II and was a woman that knew what she wanted and didnn't seem to take bs (i learned about her when i did medevial history for A levels.

Mother Theresa(sp) is also a good place to look as she was a great person in history (she did a lot for people in India, etc).

Florence Nightingdale(sp), i think she helped form the Red Cross, and from what i've heard was a great person and nurse (although i don't know much about her).

Anyway, hope this helps :), but could i ask why at the bottom of the list is Jewish/Italian, since there are Italian Jews, but it's not like they are the same people (since most Italians are Catholic).

[The Lady]

Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinam (sp?) . . . I'm thinking . . . Katherine Hepburn (well I think she is someone of importance) . . . get back to you with a few more

[Lunacie]

Carrie Nation - who took an axe to saloons

Susan B. Anthony - civil rights and women's votes

Amelia Earhart - pioneer of flight

[Thunder]

Jackie Onassis

[Lunacie]

Little Egypt :lol:

[Lyntwyn]

Wilma Mankiller
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=104
Sarah Winnemucca
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=172
Chien-Shiung Wu
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=174

[Little Billy]

Gilda Radner.

[Alaiyo]

These women are American-not African:

Fannie Lou Hamer

Ella Backer (should be spelled Ella Baker)

Dorothy Height

Shirley Chisholm

Dr. C. DeLores Tucker

Sojourner Truth

Assata Shakur

They would be identified as 'Black.' Or if you feel like wrapping your tongue around 'African-American,' then they would be 'African-American.' All were born in the US (Shakur changed her name to a more 'African sounding name' during her time with the Black Panthers).



These women may very well have Native American blood, however they identify themselves as being Black:

Coretta Scott King

Maya Angelou

Marian Wright Edelman

Septima Clark




Also, it should be Jane "Addams" not "Adams" if you are referring to the cofounder of Hull House.

[Ron]

Racist heading or not, "Ani Defranco [sic]" should be "Ani Difranco [sic]".

{Racist headings are AWESOME!} They are a frickin waste of time. Why don't you make a fricken Caucasian group then, for non-white Caucasians like me.... even if I'm not a "womyn" {yay feminism!} --> sarcasm. (I'm a feminist... but the zealots can burn.)

If you are going to use politically-incorrect designations to categorize important people, please at least make an attempt to be politically-correct, and use the following groups: Caucasian, Negroid, Oriental, & "Unable to determine due to the political-incorrectness of categories".

A tolerant society would not tolerate intolerance.

[Alaiyo]

Uhhh....sure.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program...

The one thing that I might agree with the above poster about it that perhaps if you provided headings that were more about areas of achievement (health, literature, activism etc) it would be a more manageable list.

I know or at least I think that you were trying to make sure that all ethnicities were covered when you made your groupings so that perhaps the same names that always appear when making a list of women who have made important contributions could appear alongside of others that are less well known.

One thing that I did notice was the lack of any woman of Asian descent-American or otherwise, which is something that I am not sure would have been highlighted had you not made the groupings that you did.

And because of it, one person contributed Chien-Shiung Wu and one other contributed Indira Gandhi.

[Djiril]

Yeah, I'm not sure why she did that either. I just copied and pasted the list she sent me. I'm definitely going to reccomend that we lose the headings for whatever we are going to do with this list.

[Thunder]

Racist heading or not, "Ani Defranco [sic]" should be "Ani Difranco [sic]".

{Racist headings are AWESOME!} They are a frickin waste of time. Why don't you make a fricken Caucasian group then, for non-white Caucasians like me.... even if I'm not a "womyn" {yay feminism!} --> sarcasm. (I'm a feminist... but the zealots can burn.)

If you are going to use politically-incorrect designations to categorize important people, please at least make an attempt to be politically-correct, and use the following groups: Caucasian, Negroid, Oriental, & "Unable to determine due to the political-incorrectness of categories".

A tolerant society would not tolerate intolerance.

At the risk of derailing your tirade (nice one by the way) Anthropologically speaking they are Caucasoid, negroid and mongoloid. Sociologically speaking they are Caucasian, Negroid and Asian. Objects are oriental, not people.

Carry on.

[Little Billy]

Judy Tenuda.

[Theres]

Judy Tenuda.

"ooooh Juuuuudy..."

it could happen!

[Arion]

Eva Peron

... Ani DiFranco is an important woman in history???

[Xentor]

cleopatra

Off topic: does that look like deopatra to anyone else?

[Xentor]

Other important women:

The current Queen Elizabeth of the UK.
Mary-Antoinette (France)
Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth (Israel)
Angela Merkel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel), first female president of Germany
Josephine Bonaparte (first wife of Napoleon)

[Toby Stimpson]

At the risk of derailing your tirade (nice one by the way) Anthropologically speaking they are Caucasoid, negroid and mongoloid. Sociologically speaking they are Caucasian, Negroid and Asian. Objects are oriental, not people.

Carry on.

Actually, you are wrong. I am studying Social Sciences and those very confining classifications were thrown out years ago. Race is not viewed in such confining orders now as it is a new world...Ron brings a good point out though that those of mixed heritage cannot be so plainly placed into little subgroups of race, and especially not into Mongoloid (which my dear, is quite frankly not used anymore), Negroid or Caucasoid. I am glad that you'll recommend she change the headings Djiril, its very impotant. Although I am pleased to see that she is doing this, celebrating Women in history.

Another I thought of:

The Queen of Sheeba
Hilary Clinton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)


Tobias

[Alaiyo]

Judy Tenuda.
The Queen of us all....

[Little Billy]

The Queen of us all....


I, for one, am proud to be a stud-puppet.

[Theres]

The Queen of us all....

"Worship me, pigs!"


:lol:

[omar]

Dolly Madison the wife of Pres. Madison. She wore the REAL PANTS in the White House.

[Alaiyo]

As well as Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edith Roosevelt, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Mary McLeod Bethune, the artists CLAMP, Alice Walker, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Sarah Remond, and Angela Davis.

[Thunder]

Susan Seddon Boulet

[Thunder]

Actually, you are wrong. I am studying Social Sciences and those very confining classifications were thrown out years ago


and especially not into Mongoloid (which my dear, is quite frankly not used anymore),

Is there an explanation for the disrespectful tone here?

[Lyntwyn]

One thing that I did notice was the lack of any woman of Asian descent-American or otherwise, which is something that I am not sure would have been highlighted had you not made the groupings that you did.

And because of it, one person contributed Chien-Shiung Wu and one other contributed Indira Gandhi.

I contributed Chien-Shiung Wu, because she was brilliant physicist and important in her field.

"Chien-Shiung Wu, a pioneering physicist, radically altered modern physical theory and changed our accepted view of the structure of the universe.

Wu's experiments led physicists to discard the concept that parity was conserved. In recognition of her contributions to atomic research and the understanding of beta decay and the weak interactions, Wu became the first woman to receive the prestigious Research Corporation Award and the Comstock Prize from the National Academy of Sciences. The Comstock Prize is given only once every five years."
To read more:
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=174

[Philosophia]

There are hundreds of women who are extremely important
Look into female writers:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
female philosophers:
Hypatia
Catherine MacKinnon
Harriet Taylor
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9974/index.html
http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/SWIP/women.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/philosophy/
Women in science:
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/
http://teach.psy.uga.edu/dept/student/parker/PsychWomen/wopsy.htm
Women in history:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwomen.htm
http://www.hssworld.org/homepage/html/boudhik/ekatmata_stotra/jhansi.html
Some other famous women:
Ruby Dhalla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Dhalla
Chung Hyun Kyung: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Hyun_Kyung
Jill Ker Conway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Ker_Conway

[Philosophia]

And from India, look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_India

[ap Dafydd]

How's about

Boudica
Hildegard of Bingen (for her work as a herbalist not her Christianity)
Joan of Arc
Grainne ni Mhaile
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mother Jones
Starhawk

gwyn eich byd

Ffred

[Alaiyo]

Raisa Gorbachev
Tatyana Dyachenko
Lucy Terry Prince
Mae Jemison
Faith Ringnold
Augusta Savage
Edmonia Lewis
Lucia Chase
Bronislava Nijinska
Marie Salle
Olga Preobrajenska
Agrippina Vaganova
Alice Coachman
Debi Thomas
Anna Julia Cooper
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Maud Cuney Hare
Victoria E. Mathews
Ida B. Wells Barnett
Ida Tarbell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Annie Jump Cannon
Maria Mitchell
Rachel Carson
Susan LaFlesche
Suzette 'Bright Eyes' LaFlesche Hopkins
Anacoana
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
Kalpana Chawla
Akikio Yosano

[Nighthawk]

Umm, that is Winona La Duke....
There were a ton of "Rosie the riveters", but they were all important.
There are so many women in history that were and are important.
Oprah, for example... She has done a whole bunch for us.
Man, so many more...

[mol]

ADMIN MODE

I have read through this thread and while I hate labels and classifications the labels that are used in these lists are obviously not meant to 'degrade' people. I am publicly saying this because I have received a couple of reports about it.

[banondraig]

Grainne ni Mhaile


also known as Grace O'Malley, should she be hard to find under the correct version of her name. :)

and don't forget Geraldine Ferraro, who was the Democratic party's candidate for vice-president of the U.S. in 1984.

[Alaiyo]

Betty Ford
The Grimke Sisters-Sarah and Angelina
Their great niece-Angelina Weld Grimke (also Charlotte Forten Grimke's niece in law)
Karen Silkwood
Elizabeth Keckley
Queen Elizabeth I
Mary of Guise (anyone who has read about Mary, Queen of Scots' childhood can appreciate her mother's efforts to look out for her daughter's best interest as heir to the throne of Scotland and her unwillingness to knuckle under Henry VIII's will)
Anne Hutchinson
Haru Matsukata Reischauer

[Toby Stimpson]

Is there an explanation for the disrespectful tone here?

I dont see a disrespectful tone, and if there is I did not intend it...just pointing out a flaw.

Others I've thought of:

Boudica: An ancient Celtic warchief who fought the Romans

Mia Farrow

Judy Garland

Margarat Atwood

[Alaiyo]

Some current important women:

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/127482/1/

[gurlygurl2004]

Actually, you are wrong. I am studying Social Sciences and those very confining classifications were thrown out years ago. Race is not viewed in such confining orders now as it is a new world...Ron brings a good point out though that those of mixed heritage cannot be so plainly placed into little subgroups of race, and especially not into Mongoloid (which my dear, is quite frankly not used anymore), Negroid or Caucasoid. I am glad that you'll recommend she change the headings Djiril, its very impotant. Although I am pleased to see that she is doing this, celebrating Women in history.

Another I thought of:

The Queen of Sheeba
Hilary Clinton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)


Tobias


I took a sociology class last sememster and they mentioned something like that. Actually I think one of those sociologist in the book theorized people are divided into like thousand or so races. I normally divide people into nationality or contenient of origin. Other than that, really there's varying degrees of black and white. Some whites are really pale, while others are naturally kind of tan, and there's some lighter skinned blacks who aren't mixed with white and some that are super dark:)

[gurlygurl2004]

I dont see a disrespectful tone, and if there is I did not intend it...just pointing out a flaw.

Others I've thought of:

Boudica: An ancient Celtic warchief who fought the Romans

Mia Farrow

Judy Garland

Margarat Atwood

I saw something on the History Channel about Boudica the other night. Quite interesting.

[Toby Stimpson]

(off topic) Anthropologically speaking...I heard a theory a while back in the summer that there might have been only seven genetic pools that we sprang from, seven ancient women who most of the human race can be traced back to...and atleast a few of the so called 'races' are under each women. Certainly Inuit, Asian, and some Noth American Native groups can trace their origins back to the same genetic history. Its interesting. The most logical explanation though for 'race' is simply evolution by climate and thats why Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid no longer are used in anthropology becasue they are too constricting. They do not take into account Middle eastern, semitic, persian, Indian, Tamil.....or the differences between Nordic and Greek, or Irish and Russian...and a variety of other physicalogical characteristics from around the world.

(on topic) YEAH! I saw a show on the discovery channel with Lucy lawless on "warrior women' and the one about Boudica....very interesting...I so do love Lucy Lawless! :D

Namaste

Tobias

[Hærfest Leah]

Good thread, I've recently come across this one also.

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine.html

I also like Queen Boudica, I watched a 2 hr show about her on the Discovery channel just 3 days ago.

[Wolfpoet]

Ok, Women who have been a major influence to History.

Mary Queen of Scotts: was responsible for one of our civil wars.

Queen Victoria: One of the most powerful and influencial figures of the late 19th century. Also an opponent of Women's rights. (not many know that one).

Margaret Thatcher: Britains only female PM to date and influenced a great deal in her time.

Also I remoned looking up famous men and studying their wives. many unsung heroes are the wives of great men who influence their Husband's.

[Aleannah]

I haven't read the whole thread, but Mother Theresa came to mind

[Darakash]

How about Golda Meir! Kinda of a biggie :)

[Darakash]

And don't forget Sandra Day Oconnor (did I spell that wrong???)

[Agaliha]

About.com has a big list: Women's History - About.com (http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_list.htm)