Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an feminist playwright and novelist. She was awarded the in 2004 for her “musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power. “ Table of Contents 1 Early Life 2 Political Activism […]

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706 – 1749) was a mathematician, physicist, and  author during the age of intellectual enlightenment. Châtelet’s research predicted what is today known as infra-red radiation and the nature of light. In the year of her death, she completed the work regarded as her outstanding achievement: her […]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in 1815, is thought to have been the driving catalyst behind the start of the in the . Friends with many suffragettes and abolitionists of the day, she was able to organize their passions to create the first woman’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Throughout her years active, she […]

Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. Although she was widely criticised for her militant tactics, her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women’s suffrage in . Table of Contents 1 Early Life and Education 2 Political […]