libber

/ˈlɪbər/

Other forms: libbers

Definitions of libber

1. noun

   a supporter of feminism
   synonyms: feminist, women's liberationist, women's rightist

   examples:

   Simone de Beauvoir

   French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)

   Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan

   United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)

   Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

   United States feminist (1860-1935)

   Lucretia Coffin Mott

   United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)

   Alice Paul

   United States feminist (1885-1977)

   Elizabeth Cady Stanton

   United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)

   Gloria Steinem

   United States feminist (born in 1934)

   Lucy Stone

   United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

   Sojourner Truth

   United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

   Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

   English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)

   Frances Wright

   United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)

   types:

   suffragette

   a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)

   type of:

   crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer

   a person or group who pushes to improve an institution or system by changing it