Inilah Daftar Top 100 Wanita Yang Paling Inspiratif Dari Seluruh Dunia [Part 3]

By : Veiled-Veiled

• Maya Angelou

   Writer, academic and activist, who chronicled the African American experience in literature

• Margaret Atwood

   Novelist behind The Handmaid's Tale, a cautionary story of a world without feminism

• Judith Butler

   Superstar academic whose influential work Gender Trouble changed the way we conceptualise gender

• Carol Ann Duffy

   First tipped for the job 10 years earlier, she finally became the first female poet laureate in 2009

• Eve Ensler

   Playwright and activist, most famed for her taboo-busting play, The Vagina Monologues

• Susan Faludi

   Social historian, political analyst, and fact checker extraordinaire, who has challenged the mainstream consensus about women's status

• Germaine Greer

   Academic and feminist commentator who bulldozed her way into women's minds

• Shere Hite

   Feminist sex researcher who debunked the myth that most women were able to have orgasms through intercourse alone

• Lynda La Plante

   Screenwriter responsible for Prime Suspect, a brilliant vision of a woman in a man's workplace

• Doris Lessing

   Novelist celebrated as writing a pioneering work of female emancipation, then spent half a century trying to shake off the status of 'feminist icon'

• Onora O'Neill

   Cambridge philosopher and crossbench peer who addresses issues including freedom of speech and stem-cell research

• JK Rowling

   Author of the Harry Potter series, inspiring young readers and improving literacy levels in the process

• Arundhati Roy

   Booker prize-winning author and one of India's most important polemicists

• Marjane Satrapi

   Graphic novelist behind Persepolis, an autobiographical account of an Iranian youth

• Jessica Valenti

   Pioneering blogger whose online activism dragged feminism into the 21st century

• Alice Walker

   Lifelong political and social activist whose novel The Color Purple won the Pulitzer prize

• Mary Warnock

   Philosopher and writer, who has shaped government policies and is an outspoken supporter of legalised euthanasia

• Martha Lane Fox

   Entrepreneur who founded lastminute.com and is leading the government's campaign to get people online

• Juliana Rotich

   A prolific blogger who founded Ushahidi.com as a means to uncover violence and crisis areas around the world

• Rebecca Adlington

   Double Olympic gold swimmer aiming to increase her tally in 2012

• Arlene Blum

   Mountaineer Arlene Blum was the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest

• Karren Brady

   The vice-chairman of West Ham United football club who became a champion of working women on The Apprentice

• Eileen Collins

   US astronaut who was the first female pilot of a space shuttle and the first female shuttle commander

• Cathy Freeman

   The first Aboriginal athlete to win an Olympic medal

• Tanni Grey-Thompson

   Britain's greatest Paralympian, changed the perception of Paralympic sport for ever