Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries
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Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/January
- January 1920 – Shin Fujin Kyokai (The New Woman Assosciation) drafts its demands to the Japanese government, insisting that the law allow women to participate in politics and that divorce be equitable
- January 1972 – First publication of Ms. (magazine) magazine, founded by Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- 5 January 1925 – Sworn in as governor of Wyoming, Nellie Taylor Ross (pictured) became the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state
- 22 January 1973 – Roe v. Wade decided by the United States Supreme Court, legalizing abortion
- 23 January 1823 – Birth of Camilla Collett, considered Norway's first feminist; her only novel deals with the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchal society
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/February
- February 1975 – First publication of The Female Man, a feminist science fiction novel by Joanna Russ, which follows the lives of four women living in parallel worlds who visit each other and encounter new notions of what it means to be a woman
- February 1976 – Andrea Dworkin organizes public pickets of the movie Snuff out of which the activist group Women Against Pornography eventually grew
- 14 February 1998 – First V-Day benefit to raise money to end violence against women, inspired by Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues
- 18 February 1934 – Birth of Audre Lorde, African-American feminist and poet who criticized earlier feminists, such as Betty Friedan, for not considering the effects of race and sexual orientation on feminism
- 19 February 1963 – First publication of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which inspired second-wave feminism
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/March
- March 1918 – First publication of Married Love, an important and influential sex manual by Marie Stopes, a Scottish author, eugenicist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning
- March 1976 – First Take Back the Night march was held in Belgium by women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women
- 2 March 1897 – Birth of Shidzue Katō, Japanese feminist who was a pioneer in the birth control movement and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan
- 8 March – International Women's Day (pictured) is a day to celebrate the economic, political, and social achievements of women
- 28 March 1794 – Marquis de Condorcet, who died during the French Revolution, argued for free and equal public education as well as for equal rights for women and people of all races
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/April
- April 1917 – American modern artist Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo art show
- April 2007 – Mukhtaran Bibi (pictured) won the North-South Prize for human rights for speaking out regarding her gang rape, taking the rapists to court, and founding the Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization
- 5 April 1858 – During the Central India Campaign, Rani Lakshmibai helped defend Jhansi and lead the Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 11 April 1881 – Establishment of Spelman College, the oldest historically black college for women in the United States
- 22 April 1766 – Birth of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, a salonnière of political influence, who challenged Napoleon, and an author
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/May
- May 1892 – Publication of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (pictured), a prominent American writer, and utopian feminist who argued for women's economic independence in Women and Economics
- 16 May 1929 – Birth of Adrienne Rich, award-winning lesbian American poet and feminist
- 20 May 1806 – Birth of John Stuart Mill, British philosopher whose essay The Subjection of Women argued for the equality of women
- 21 May 1970 – First Women's studies program established in the United States at San Diego State College after a year of intense consciousness raising, rallies, petitions, and unofficial classes
- 24 May 1990 – Judi Bari Day, honoring the American ecofeminist and labor leader who worked to protect the redwood forests of Northern California
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/June
- June 1949 – First publication of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, a detailed analysis of women's oppression which became a foundational text of contemporary feminism
- June 1996 – Fauziya Kassindja was granted asylum in the United States in order to escape the tribal practice of female genital cutting. This set a precedent allowing the grant of asylum for gender discrimination.
- 21 June 1947 – Shirin Ebadi - Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who was the first Muslim woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering efforts on behalf of women's and children's rights
- 23 June 1879 – Birth of Hoda Shaarawi (pictured at right), a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist; she founded the Egyptian Feminist Union and led protests, notably removing her face veil for the first time in public.
- 30 June 1966 – Foundation of the National Organization for Women in the United States, which promotes reproductive freedoms; diversity; the end of racism, rape and domestic violence; economic justice; lesbian rights; and constitutional equality for women.
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/July
- July 1843 – First publication in The Dial of Margaret Fuller's essay The Great Lawsuit, one of the first American feminist works
- July 1923 – Foundation of the People's Party of Women in the Republic of Turkey by Nezihe Muhiddin
- 14 July 1858 – Birth of Emmeline Pankhurst, the driving force behind women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
- 15 July 1907 – Execution of Qiū Jǐn (秋瑾) (pictured), a Chinese anti-Qing Empire revolutionary, feminist and writer.
- 19 July 1848 – Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention in the United States, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others, where she presented her Declaration of Sentiments and advocated women's right to vote
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/August
- 2 August 1894 – Birth of Berta Lutz, a Brazilian scientist and feminist, who helped Brazilian women obtain the vote in 1934
- 9 August 1956 – National Women's Day commemorates the national march of women on this day to petition against legislation that required African persons to carry the "pass", special identification documents which curtailed their freedom of movement during the apartheid era.
- 18 August 1920 – Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, specifically intended to extend suffrage to women
- 25 August 1954 – The National Constituent Assembly of Colombia unanimously recognized the political rights of women and women voted for the first time on 1 December 1957
- 31 August 1919 – Birth of Amrita Pritam, the first prominent female Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, she received the Jnanpith Award, one of India's highest literary honors
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/September
- September 1981 – Women's Action Forum formed in Pakistan which promotes women's issues, such as discriminatory legislation, dress codes, violence against women, and the seclusion of women
- 3 September 1981 – Coming into effect of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly—the United States is the only developed nation which has not ratified it.
- 13 September 1994 – Violence Against Women Act signed into law to combat domestic violence and sexual assault in the United States, what NOW called "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades"
- 16 September 1923 – Killing of Noe Ito, a Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist
- 25 September 1952 – Birth of bell hooks, an African-American author, feminist, and social activist, whose writing has focused on the connections between race, class and gender and how they produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/October
- 12 October 1810 – Birth of Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta (pictured), considered the "first Brazilian feminist", she wrote the first Brazilian book to discuss women's rights
- 16 October 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge, first residential college for women in England, established by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon
- 16 October 1916 – Margaret Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States.
- 17 October 1947 – Birth of Brinda Karat, an Indian activist within the labor and women's movements, she gained prominence reforming rape laws and became the first female member of the CPI(M) Politburo.
- 24 October 1929 – First publication of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, a book-length essay which includes the famous dictum "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/November
- 2 November 1938 – First woman awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova (pictured) was a Soviet aviator known as the "Russian Amelia Earhart" who helped found three female air regiments for World War II
- 2 November 2004 – Theo van Gogh murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri over the movie Submission, written by the feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which attacked Koranic verses allowing the abuse of Muslim women.
- 3 November 1793 – Guillotining of Olympe de Gouge, playwright and journalist who demanded equal rights for women during the French Revolution in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
- 18 November 1872 – Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined for voting in a presidential election—a fine she refused to pay for the rest of her life
- 28 November 1893 – Women voted for the first time in New Zealand
Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/December
- 2 December 1988 – Benazir Bhutto sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakstan, becoming the youngest person and the first woman to head a Muslim-majority state
- 10 December 1923 – Equal Rights Amendment first introduced to the United States Senate and House of Representatives
- 10 December 1948 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly
- 27 December 1797 – Birth of Manuela Sáenz (pictured), "perhaps the most important woman in Latin American history". In love with Simón Bolívar, she assisted with his revolutionary cause by gathering information, distributing leaflets and protesting for women's rights.
- 31 December 1903 – Birth of Fumiko Hayashi, Japanese novelist and poet, whose works revolve around themes of free spirited women and troubled relationships
