List of feminists
Period ( birth ) Name Country Born Died Comments
1500-1599 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Germany 1486 1535 Male feminist , wrote Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus ( Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex ) , a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women
1500-1599 Jane Anger United Kingdom fl . 1589 fl . 1589 Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women
1500-1599 Marie de Gournay France 1565 1645 Protofeminist writer of Egalité des hommes et des femmes ( The equality of men and women )
1500-1599 Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi Italy 1501-1600 c. 1593 Protofeminist writer of The Worth of Women
1500-1599 Lucrezia Marinella Italy c. 1571 1653 Italian poet , author , and an advocate of women 's rights
1500-1599 Izumo no Okuni Japan c. 1571 unknown Originator of kabuki theater
16th-century feminists
Born between 1500 and 1599 .
This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, originally sorted by surname within each period. It may include, for instance, earlier authors who did not self-identify as feminists but have been claimed to have furthered feminist consciousness by a resistance of male dominance expressed in their works.