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In India some intellectual references of the movement can be found in the works of Vandana Shiva, an ecologist and feminist, who in her book Biopiracy documents the way that the natural capital of indigenous peoples and ecoregions is converted into forms of intellectual capital, which are then recognized as exclusive commercial property without sharing the private utility thus derived.

* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

Meanwhile, she says, the " feminist movement ", a largely white middle and upper class affair, did not articulate the needs of poor and non-white women, thus reinforcing sexism, racism, and classism.

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

* 1896 – Na Hye-sok, Korean poeter, feminist writer and painter, educators, journalists.

With the expansion of the mass media and mass / popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s and the blending of social and cultural criticism and literary criticism, the methods of both kinds of critical theory sometimes intertwined in the analysis of phenomena of popular culture, as in the emerging field of cultural studies, in which concepts deriving from Marxian theory, post-structuralism, semiology, psychoanalysis and feminist theory would be found in the same interpretive work.

This was helped by the emergence of self-identified feminist writers including Ann Nocenti, Linda Fite, and Barbara Kesel.

* 1937 – Joanna Russ, American author and feminist ( d. 2011 )

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

Coming from a black feminist perspective, bell hooks put forth the notion of the “ oppositional gaze ,” encouraging black women not to accept stereotypical representations in film, but rather actively critique them.

Louisa also became a pioneering doctor of medicine and feminist activist.

The growing female presence in the film industry was seen as a positive step toward realizing this goal, by drawing attention to feminist issues and putting forth alternative, more true-to-life views of women.

hooks examines the effect of racism and sexism on black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements from suffrage to the 1970s.

Since economics is traditionally focused on topics said to be " culturally masculine " such as autonomy, abstraction and logic, feminist economists call for the inclusion of more feminine topics such as family behavior, connections, concreteness, and emotion, and show the problems caused by exclusion of those topics.

Some of the most notable feminist science fiction works have illustrated these themes using utopias to explore a society in which gender differences or gender power imbalances do not exist, or dystopias to explore worlds in which gender inequalities are intensified, thus asserting a need for feminist work to continue.

Concerning the feminist organization WITCH, Morgan writes:

Anguissola is significant to feminist art historians.

In 1994, Camille Paglia described some feminist groups as " Stalinist " for engaging in what she describes as censorship and quashing of dissent.

" Science fiction and fantasy serve as important vehicles for feminist thought, particularly as bridges between theory and practice.

* Ms. ( magazine ), an American feminist magazine

She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.

The Brontës ' fiction is seen by some feminist critics as prime examples of Female Gothic, exploring woman's entrapment within domestic space and subjection to patriarchal authority and the transgressive and dangerous attempts to subvert and escape such restriction.

Certain scholars have argued that she should be seen as an early feminist who efficiently used language to convey that women could play an important role within society.

Much of the history of Dianic Wicca is closely intertwined with " traditional " Wicca, though Dianic Wicca's feminist views stem largely from second wave feminism.

In the United States, radical feminism developed as a response to some of the perceived failings of both New Left organizations such as the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) and feminist organizations such as NOW.