Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World [Diotima]
Women's Studies Electronic User Guide [Malaspina University-College]
A Celebration of Women Writers [Mary Mark, Carnegie Mellon University]
Global Reproductive Health Forum [Harvard School of Public Health]

Women's Studies Database
The following is a listing of the records of women in the Great Books database. The records are ordered chronologically: Literature ArtScience MusicTheatre Mythological & CinemaHistorical.

Antiquity

Primordial Goddess [Mythological]

Fertile Goddess [Mythological]

Ishtar [Mythological]

Kali [Mythological]

Snake Goddess [Mythological]

Sophia [Mythological]

Amazon [Mythological]

Enheduana (2285 BC-2250 BC) [Historical]

Enheduana (2285 BC-2250 BC) [Literature]

Enheduana (2285 BC-2250 BC) [Science]

Hatshepsut (1502? BC-1458 BC) [Historical]

Sappho (ca. 625 B.C.) [Literature]

Sappho (ca. 625 B.C.) [Music]

Theano of Kroton (ca. 550 B.C.) [Science]

Aspasia of Miletus (c. 470-c. 410 BC) [Historical]

Diotima of Mantinea (c. 470?-c. 410? BC) [Historical or Mythological]

Queen Olympias (376?-316 BC) [Historical]

Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) [Historical]

Boadaceia (ca. 100 AD) [Historical]

Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (b. 231? - d. after 271 AD) [Historical]

Hypatia of Alexandria (355-415) [Science]

Medieval

Marcella (ca. 400 AD) [Historical]

Empress Theodora (ca. 500-548) [Historical]

Irene, Byzantine Empress (752-803) [Historical]

Hroswitha (ca. 930-ca. 1002) [Historical]

Murasaki Shikibu (978?-1026?) [Literature]

Trotula of Salerno (ca. 1097) [Science]

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) [Literature]

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) [Art]

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) [Music]

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) [Science]

Heloise (1101-1164) [Literature]

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) [Historical]

Petronilla de Meath (ca. 1300-1324) [Historical]

St. Bridget of Sweden (ca. 1303-1373 AD) [Historical]

Christine de Pisan (ca. 1363-ca. 1431) [Literature]

Renaissance

Isabella I (1451-1504) [Historical]

Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) [Literature]

Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) [Literature]

Mary I (Mary Tudor or "Bloody Mary") (1516-1558) [Historical]

Catherine de Medicis (1519-1589) [Historical]

Elizabeth I (1533-1603) [Historical]

Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) (1542-1587) [Historical]

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) [Art]

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) [Theatre]

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) [Literature]

Fede Galizia (1578-1630) [Art]

Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary (1585-1639) [Theatre]

Anne Hutchinson (1591-1651?) [Historical]

Baroque

Sacajawea [Historical]

Clara Peeters (1594-1657) [Art]

Artemisia Gentileschi (ca. 1597-ca. 1651) [Art]

Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) [Art]

Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) [Art]

Judith Leyster (1609-1660) [Art]

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624?-1674) [Science]

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624?-1674) [Theatre]

Mary Beale (1632-1697) [Art]

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) [Art]

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) [Theatre]

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) [Art]

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) [Science]

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) [Literature]

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (1648-1717) [Literature]

Anne Kingsmill Finch (1661-1720) [Theatre]

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) [Science]

Catherine II (Catherine the Great) (1729-1796) [Historical]

Classical

Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) [Science]

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) [Art]

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) [Literature]

Sophie Mereau (1770-1806) [Literature]

Jane Austen (1775-1817) [Literature]

Sophie Germain (1776-1831) [Science]

Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872) [Science]

Romantic

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) [Literature]

Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883) [Literature]

Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) [Literature]

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) [Music]

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) [Literature]

Augusta Ada Byron-King (Countess of Lovelace) (1815-1852) [Science]

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) [Literature]

Emily Jane Bronte (1818-1848) [Literature]

George Eliot (1819-1880) [Literature]

Clara Schumann (1819-1896) [Music]

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) [Historical]

Anne Bronte (1820-1849) [Literature]

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) [Historical]

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) [Science]

Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) [Historical]

Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) [Art]

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886) [Literature]

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) [Literature]

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) [Literature]

Marie Bracquemond (1841-1916) [Art]

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) [Art]

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) [Science]

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) [Art]

Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930) [Science]

Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) [Art]

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850-1936) [Art]

Sonya Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) [Science]

Kate O'Flaherty Chopin (1851-1904) [Literature]

Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944) [Literature]

Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912) [Science]

Modern

Camille Claudel (1864-1943) [Art]

Marie Curie (1867-1934) [Science]

Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) [Art]

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) [Science]

Emily Carr (1871-1945) [Art]

Willa Cather (1873-1947) [Literature]

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) [Literature]

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) [Literature]

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) [Historical]

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) [Science]

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) [Historical]

Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) [Literature]

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [Literature]

"Ma" (Gertrude Pridgett) Rainey (1886-1939) [Music]

Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948) [Literature]

Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948) [Science]

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) [Art]

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) [Literature]

Bess Housser (1890-1969) [Art]

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) [Literature]

Sarah Robertson (1891-1948) [Art]

Alma Thomas (1891-1978) [Art]

Mae West (1893-1980) [Theatre]

Anna Freud (1895-1982) [Science]

Rebecca Craighill Lancefield (1895-1981) [Science]

Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten (1896-1987) [Music]

Anne Savage (1896-1971) [Art]

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) [Art]

Bessie Smith (1898?-1937) [Music]

Alice Neel (1900-1984) [Art]

Anna Kavan (1901-1968) [Literature]

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) [Science]

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) [Science]

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) [Science]

Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) [Art]

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) [Theatre]

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) [Literature]

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) [Literature]

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) [Literature]

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) [Art]

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) [Literature]

Jean Coulthard (1908- ) [Music]

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) [Science]

Dorothea Tanning (1910- ) [Art]

Barbara Lally Pentland (1912- ) [Music]

Violet Balestreri Archer (1913- ) [Music]

Billie "Lady Day" Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough) (1915-1959) [Music]

Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940) [Music]

Anne Hebert (1916- ) [Literature]

Jane Jacobs (1916- ) [Literature]

Marķa Luisa Bemberg (1917-1995) [Cinema]

Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996) [Music]

Doris Lessing (1919- ) [Literature]

Elaine de Kooning (1920-1989) [Art]

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) [Science]

Mavis Gallant (1922- ) [Literature]

Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) [Literature]

Judith Malina (1926- ) [Theatre]

Maya Angelou (1928- ) [Literature]

Helen Frankenthaler (1928- ) [Art]

Anne Frank (1929-1945) [Literature]

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929- ) [Literature]

Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929- ) [Literature]

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) [Theatre]

Audrey Flack (1931- ) [Art]

Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ) [Music]

Fay Weldon (1933- ) [Literature]

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) [Literature]

Jane Goodall (1934- ) [Science]

Patricia Nell Warren (1936- ) [Literature]

Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) [Literature]

Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) [Theatre]

Margaret Atwood (1939- ) [Literature]

Margaret Drabble (1939- ) [Literature]

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939- ) [Music]

Judy Chicago (1939- ) [Art]

Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) [Literature]

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (1940- ) [Art]

Joan Baez (1941- ) [Music]

Margarethe von Trotta (1942- ) [Cinema]

Alice Walker (1944- ) [Literature]

Niara Sudarkasa (1945- ) [Science]

Flossie Wong-Staal (1947 - ) [Science]

Alexina Diane Louie (1949- ) [Music]

Judith Thompson (1954- ) [Theatre]

Frida Baranek (1961- ) [Art]





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