Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles was praised as a "masterpiece" by The New York Times. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman has had a substantial influence on feminist and avant-garde cinema.

Cixous founded the first centre of feminist studies at a European university at the University of Paris VIII in 1974.

Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the US at California State University Fresno in the 1970s.

She was included in Time Magazine's "Most Influential People of 2018".

Schapiro often incorporated craft elements into her paintings due to their association with women and femininity. She used icons associated with femininity, such as hearts, floral decorations, and the color pink.

In 1963, while still an undergrad at the New School for Social Research in New York, Lerner taught “Great Women in American History”, considered to be the first regular college course on women’s history offered anywhere.

Allred has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She represented the family of Nicole Brown Simposon during the 1995 OJ Simpson trial, and won actress Hunter Tylo's wrongful termination suit in 1997, establishing that actresses could not be fired over pregnancies.

At age 18, Chesler met an Afghan man whom she married and went to live in Afghanistan with. Her extremely negative experience led her to become a vocal critic of Islamism, criticizing the treatment of Muslim women and practices such as honor killings.

In The Mermaid and the Minotaur, Dinnerstein recognizes the roots of patriarchy in women's' monopoly on child-bearing. She does this by drawing from elements of psychoanalysis pioneered by Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein (who were also both Jewish).

Butler uses she/her and they/them pronouns, but has stated they prefer the latter. Their best known books are Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and *Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which they challenge conventional gender norms and develop their theory of gender performativity.

In Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Brownmiller argues that rape had previously been defined by men rather than woman, and was thus used as a means to perpetuate patriarchal dominance.

Wurtzel also authored “Bitch: In Praise Of Difficult Women”, a prominent feminist manifesto praising women who she believes stood up for themselves in a male-dominated world.

Fear Of Flying sold over 20 million copies, and became an icon of second-wave feminism. Although Jong was raised Jewish, she has noted that she remained "assimilated... and ignorant of the preciousness of [her Jewish] identity" until the 1980s, when she began using her writing to explore her roots.

Faludi's father, Steven Faludi (born Friendman) was a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor. After decades of estrangement from his daughter, he reached out to her in 2004 as Stefánie, having come out as a transgender woman. He died in 2015.

Ensler is most well known through her work by her pseudonym "V".

Besides receiving numerous awards, The Vagina Monologues has been translated into over 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries.

Tax's 1970 article, “Woman and her Mind: The Story of Daily Life” is considered one of the founding documents of the women's liberation movement.

Following the publication of The Beauty Myth, Wolf became a leading spokeswoman of the "third wave" feminist movement.

As head of the Woman's National Committee of the Socialist Party of America, Malkiel established an annual National Woman's Day. This later became International Women's Day, which is celebrated globally each year on March 8.

Gayle Rubin was raised in a middle-class Jewish home in South Carolina during Jim Crow. She has written that her experiences growing up in the segregated South gave her "an abiding hatred of racism in all its forms and a healthy respect for its tenacity.”

At eighteen, Sprinkle was working at an adult film theater where “Deep Throat” (1972) was playing when it was busted. While appearing in court as a witness, she met director Gerard Damiano and became his mistress for 22 years.

Following a meeting with the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, Pincus was able to secure a grant for his research into hormonal birth control.

A major figure in the Feminist Art Movement, Raven co-founded numerous feminist art organizations in the 1970s. She was part of an effort to educate female artists and provide them with opportunities to make and present their work about their experiences as women.