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Two pioneering women. Helen Hicks (early professional female golfer) and Elinor Smith (early female aviator) c.1928 in Farmingdale, New York

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Halina Poświatowska, Indeed I Love

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Tamil Girl, William Louis Henry Skeen, c. 1880, Ceylon.

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Zitkala-Sa, first Native American woman to write an opera 1898

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Zitkala-Ša (which means ‘Red Bird’), also known by the name Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Native American writer, musician and activist. She was born on 22nd February 1876 on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her mother was a Sioux American Indian, her father a white American who left the family when Zitkala was only young.

In 1910, she composed an opera with the musician William F Hanson. It was called The Sun Dance and used traditional Sioux melodies. Native American religions were banned at the time (until 1978), yet Zitkala-Ša used the Sun Dance (an outlawed dance) as the setting for her opera.

A Cultural Duet Zitkala Ša AndThe Sun Dance Opera  by P. Jane Hafen University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1998) pdf

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Two women conduct marksmanship training at Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, Calif., circa August 1942.

via reddit

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Portrait of a Malagasy Woman, c. 1900, Madagascar.

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Gwen Stefani, Melissa Auf Der Maur, and Courtney Love backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards, September 1998.

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Two women of the Los Angeles Gay Community Service Center's (GCSC) "Lesbian House," photographed by Barbara "Bee" Ottinger, circa 1972/1973.

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"The first five African-American servicewomen of the American Red Cross to arrive in Britain during World War II, October 1942.

They are in the UK to run the American Red Cross Club on Great George Street - a club for black servicemen only, and the first of its kind in Britain."

L-R: Sydney Taylor Brown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Henrine Ward of Chicago, Illinois; Carol Jarett of Denver, Colorado; Magnolia Latimer of Atlanta, Georgia; and Gladys Edward Martin of Topeka, Kansas.

Photographed by Gerti Deutsch.

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Women working on aircraft parts at North American Aviation Inc. in Inglewood, California, October 1942.

Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer.

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Ballet les sylphides (Chopiniana) by Zinaida Serebriakova, 1924.

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Art by Juliana Naufel.

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[Women talking to each other from their windows], September 1955.

Photographed by Angelo Rizzuto.

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Akcija srce-predmet / Action Heart-Object by Bogdanka Poznanović, Yugoslavia (present day Novi Sad, Serbia), September 20, 1970.

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"Les amies"

Photographed by Germaine Krull, 1924.

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“Group of young women drinking and smoking at a slumber party. Photograph by the Block Brothers Studio, 1924.”

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Anita Augspurg (September 22, 1857 – December 20, 1943)

Jurist, actress, writer, pioneer of the radical feminist movement, pacifist, and first female doctor of law of the German Empire.

Augspurg was one of the founders of the International Female Students Association, and helped to found the first girls-only high school of Karlsruhe. Along with her partner Lida Gustava Heymann, she worked on the board of the Association of Progressive Women's Organizations; founded the first German Union for Women's Suffrage; published the feminist newspaper Frau im Staat (Women in the State); participated in the International Congress of Women in The Hague, Netherlands, in April 1915, which led to the founding in 1919 of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (IFFF); formed associations for women's suffrage in Hamburg and Bavaria; and founded the first German branch of the International Abolitionist Federation, which primarily fought for the rights and civil liberties of prostitutes. She campaigned against the German Civil Code and published her infamous "Open Letter" in 1905 — in this letter, she appealed for change to the prevailing patriarchal marriage law and called for "free marriage."

Augspurg went to the University of Zurich in Switzerland to study for a law degree and graduated in 1897 with a doctorate in law, making her the first female doctor of law in the German Empire.

Due to the fact Augsburg wore short hair and unconventional clothing, and frequently made public her support for the liberation of women, she was frequently exposed to personal attacks by anti-feminists more often than other women's rights activists were.

In 1923, a decade before Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, Augspurg and Heymann called for him to be expelled from the country. Upon his and the Nazi Party's rise to power, they were exiled to Switzerland and lived there until their respective deaths in 1943.