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In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers. Barbara Joans, an iconoclastic anthropologist and [...]

She was making her name in New York journalism in the footsteps of her famous father and becoming an outspoken feminist when she met an Indian guru. Sally Kempton, who [...]

A Hollywood producer's wife who was emboldened by second-wave feminism, she was a founder of the Feminist Majority and worked to get female candidates elected. Peg Yorkin, a feminist activist [...]

While working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s, she helped write two memos that spurred the modern women's movement. Casey Hayden, an important organizer for the [...]

A close friend of Gloria Steinem, she toured with her and spoke widely about the need for women to confront racism and classism in their ranks. Dorothy Pitman Hughes, whose [...]

The cooperative she founded has helped millions of women who had never before had a safety net. ''They were,'' she said, ''the poorest among the poor.'' NEW DELHI -- Ela [...]

An uncompromising voice in the women's movement's second wave, she focused on working-class women and later on women's rights around the world. Meredith Tax, a second-wave feminist and author whose [...]

She was asked to speak at a conference in 1978 about barriers faced by women in the workplace. She noted a barrier she called ''the glass ceiling.'' Marilyn Loden was [...]

Christine Grant, the Title IX pioneer who died in December, often lamented the historically poor treatment of female athletes, asking incredulously, ''Can you imagine that?'' After surviving World War II [...]

The pioneering feminist scholar, who died this week, wrote about women, race, love, healing, pop culture and much more, always keeping Black women at the center. The news that bell [...]

An activist, poet and author, she spent most of her adult life fighting injustice and patriarchy and building bonds of solidarity with women across borders. NEW DELHI -- Kamla Bhasin, [...]

As a radical gay feminist in historically patriarchal Israel, Ms. Freedman was under constant criticism and was often dismissed by her colleagues. Marcia Freedman, who was the first American-born woman [...]

Inspired by her liberal Roman Catholic upbringing, she refocused the organization's development efforts to include women's empowerment. Margaret C. Snyder, whose liberal Roman Catholic upbringing inspired a pioneering career at [...]

After a bicycle accident left her paralyzed, she wrote a memoir, ''A Body, Undone,'' which refused to draw tidy lessons about overcoming hardship. Christina Crosby, an athletic woman who had [...]

''Century of Struggle,'' her 1959 history of the women's rights movement, uncovered previously ignored narratives, like the contributions of African-American women. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of [...]

Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. By Hande Oynar Mihri Rassim was one of the most intriguing [...]

When Bernice Sandler was a schoolgirl in the 1930s and '40s, she was annoyed that she was not allowed to do things that boys could do, like be a crossing [...]

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's devotion to social activism began when she was 17. It was 1963, and with the civil rights movement gathering strength she became involved with the Harlem Education Project, [...]

Anne Forer Pyne, an early feminist activist and writer whose use of the phrase ''consciousness raising'' helped make it a foundational principle of the women's rights movement, died on March [...]

Kate Millett's first and most famous book, ''Sexual Politics'' (1970), is credited with inciting a Copernican revolution in the understanding of gender roles, but it began life somewhat unobtrusively, as [...]

Kate Millett, whose 1970 book, ''Sexual Politics,'' made her, as one writer put it, ''the principal theoretician of the women's liberation movement,'' and who went on to be a leading [...]

Roxcy Bolton, a pioneering and tempestuous Florida feminist who was credited with founding the nation's first rape treatment center and who helped persuade national weather forecasters not to name tropical [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRoxcy Bolton, a pioneering and tempestuous Florida feminist who was credited with founding the nation's first rape treatment center and who helped persuade national weather forecasters not to name [...]

On March 9, 1977, Francine Hughes decided that she had had enough. Thirteen years of verbal and physical abuse from her hard-drinking, fitfully employed husband, James Hughes, known as Mickey, [...]

Benote Groult, who became a leading French feminist and writer in the second half of her life, drawing wide attention with a sexually daring novel that explored an unlikely love [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRobin Chandler Duke, a rags-to-riches grande dame who married an ambassador and became one of America's best known advocates for women by championing reproductive rights and international family planning, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFatema Mernissi, a Moroccan sociologist who was one of the founders of Islamic feminism, whose work included studies of the sexual politics of Islamic Scripture and a book based [...]

Gabrielle Burton, a feminist novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who considered conventional marriage lopsided but identified with the pioneering Donner Party wife who perished protecting her husband, died on Sept. 3 [...]

Gabrielle Burton, a feminist novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who considered conventional marriage lopsided but identified with the pioneering Donner Party wife who perished protecting her husband, died on Sept. 3 [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJane Briggs Hart, a flying enthusiast, would-be astronaut and competitive equestrian and sailor whose outspoken views on women's rights, the Roman Catholic Church and the Vietnam War sometimes made [...]

Efua Dorkenoo, who helped lead a successful 30-year campaign against the tradition of genital cutting of girls and women, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, by casting the practice [...]

Catherine O'Neill, whose travels with the International Rescue Committee to refugee camps led her, along with the actress Liv Ullmann and others, to found the Women's Commission for Refugee Women [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBeate Sirota Gordon, the daughter of Russian Jewish parents who at 22 almost single-handedly wrote women's rights into the Constitution of modern Japan, and then kept silent about it [...]

Nancy Spero, an American artist and feminist whose tough, exquisite figurative art addressed the realities of political violence, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 83 and lived in Manhattan. […]

Turkan Saylan, a champion of women's rights and education for poor children in Turkey and a leader in the fight against leprosy, died here on Monday. She was 73. The […]

Lorraine Rothman, a leader of the feminist health movement in the 1970s who suggested that women could undergo or perform gynecological procedures without medical supervision, most controversially ending very early […]

Mary D. Crisp, whose stalwart advocacy of feminism and abortion rights as national co-chairman of the Republican Party led to her ouster in 1980 and a sharp rebuke from the […]

Judith P. Vladeck, a prominent labor lawyer and ardent advocate of women's rights in the workplace, particularly on college campuses, died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 83 and lived […]

Eleanor Thomas Elliott, an advocate for women's rights who successfully fought Columbia University's attempt to take over Barnard College in the early 1970s, died Sunday in Valhalla, N.Y. She was […]

Kathy Wilson, who as head of the National Women's Political Caucus in the 1980's lobbied on behalf of issues affecting women's lives, from the proposed equal rights amendment to the […]

Elizabeth Janeway, who began her career as a best-selling novelist in the 1940's and later distinguished herself as a critic, a lecturer and an early advocate of the women's movement, […]

Corrine Grad Coleman, a founding member of the Redstockings, a women's liberation group in New York, died on July 4 at her home in Manhattan. She was 77. The cause […]

Mary Jean Crenshaw Tully, a founding strategist of modern feminism and former president of the National Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund, died on Dec. 27 at White […]

Carolyn G. Heilbrun, a retired Columbia University literary scholar whose extensive writings included pioneering books and essays in the feminist canon and a dozen highly erudite detective novels under the […]

Monique Wittig, a French writer and literary theorist whose imaginative, fiercely innovative books tried to create a new mythology for the feminist movement, died Jan. 3 in Tucson. She was […]