Precolonial women leaders act feminist without the concept existing.

Evidence

But history is not without exceptions, as women warlords like Yaa Asantewaa, Queen of the Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana, led an army against colonialists who had sent the Ashanti King into exile. These women cannot be labelled as outright feminists given the fact that the concept did not exist then. Furthermore, these heroines might not have conceptualized themselves as such. However, the power of their feminism lies more in their acts and their impact as opposed to their being named as feminists. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 983

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: retro-applying ‘feminism’ to figures who had no such concept — anachronism in historical gender analysis.
• XREF: connects to: Scholarship can advance feminist knowledge without claiming a feminist identity.