Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA since 1984.

She is a self-described feminist.

Hudson is a self-described feminist.

She is a self-described feminist and liberal.

Several years ago, self-described radical-left feminists led a fight in several states to ban pornography on the basis of its alleged harm to women.

Purple Moon's co-founder, Brenda Laurel, a 47-year-old self-described feminist, made a conspicuous decision to stay away from a strident message and go for the mainstream.

Russ was a self-described socialist feminist, expressing particular admiration for the work and theories of Clara Fraser and her Freedom Socialist Party.

For self-described hip-hop feminists, attempting to answer that question is not their only task, since understanding what hip-hop feminism is and isn't goes far beyond responding to women-bashing sentiment.

For Ms. Ensler, a self-described "radical feminist," to devote an entire play to the loaded connotations of excess female flesh may not seem all that surprising.

Finally, women artists, whether self-described feminists or not, continue to be interested in issues of female sexuality.