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feminist literature Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political, economic, and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal ...
, listed by year of first publication, then within the year alphabetically by title (using the English title rather than the foreign language title if available/applicable). Books and magazines are in italics, all other types of literature are not and are in quotation marks. References lead when possible to a link to the full text of the literature.


14th century

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De Mulieribus Claris ''De Mulieribus Claris'' or ''De Claris Mulieribus'' (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362. ...
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15th century

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The Book of the City of Ladies ''The Book of the City of Ladies'' or ''Le Livre de la Cité des Dames'' (finished by 1405), is perhaps Christine de Pizan's most famous literary work, and it is her second work of lengthy prose. Pizan uses the vernacular French language to comp ...
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The Treasure of the City of Ladies ''The Treasure of the City of Ladies'' (''Le trésor de la cité des dames'', also known ''The Book of the Three Virtues'') is a manual of education by medieval Italian-French author Christine de Pisan. Finished, like her previous ''The Book of ...
'', Christine de Pisan () *''The Tale of Joan of Arc'',
Christine de Pisan Christine de Pizan or Pisan (), born Cristina da Pizzano (September 1364 – c. 1430), was an Italian poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French dukes. Christine de Pizan served as a court writer in medieval France ...
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The Wife of Bath's Tale "The Wife of Bath's Tale" ( enm, The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales''. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer himsel ...
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16th century

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Orlando Furioso ''Orlando furioso'' (; ''The Frenzy of Orlando'', more loosely ''Raging Roland'') is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was no ...
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Ludovico Ariosto Ludovico Ariosto (; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic ''Orlando Furioso'' (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'', describes the ...
(1516-1532) * ''The Superior Excellence of Women Over Men'',
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; ; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's ''Three Books of Occult Philosophy'' published in 1533 drew ...
(1529) * ''The Defense of Good Women'',
Thomas Elyot Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 149626 March 1546) was an English diplomat and scholar. He is best known as one of the first proponents of the use of the English language for literary purposes. Early life Thomas was the child of Sir Richard Elyot's firs ...
(1545) * ''La Nobiltà delle Donne'', The Nobility of Women
Lodovico Domenichi Lodovico Domenichi (1515–1564) was an Italian translator. Biography Lodovico Domenichi was born in Piacenza (Italy) in 1515. After studying Law at the University of Padua, he pursued a literary career. He lived in Piacenza, Venice and Florence ...
(1549) * ''Difese delle Donne'', A Defence of Women, Domenico Bruni da Pistoia (1552) * ''La bella e dotta difesa delle donne in verso, e prosa, di messer Luigi Dardano ... contra gli accusatori del sesso loro. Con un breue trattato di ammaestrare li figliuoli'', The Beautiful and Learned Defence of Women in Verse, Prose ... against the detractors of their sex, with a brief tract to be administered to sons, Luigi Dardano (1553) * ''Discorso sopra il Principio di Tutti I Canti di Orlando Furioso'', Discourse on the Principles of all the Canti of Orlando Furioso
Laura Terracina Laura Terracina (1519-c. 1577) was an Italian poet from Naples during the Renaissance. She was the most published Italian poet of the sixteenth century. Life Terracina was born in Chiaia, a suburb of Naples. Her mother, Diana Anfora of Sorrento ...
(1583) * ''Le Promenoir de M. de Montaigne qui traite de l'amour dans l'œuvre de Plutarque'',
Marie le Jars de Gournay Marie de Gournay (; 6 October 1565, Paris – 13 July 1645) was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including ''The Equality of Men and Women'' (''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', 1622) and ' ...
(1584) * ''Her Protection for Women'',
Jane Anger Jane Anger was an English author of the sixteenth century and the first woman to publish a full-length defence of her sex in English. The title of her defense, ''Jane Anger Her Protection For Women'' was published in 1589. In the late sixteenth ...
(1589)


17th century

* '' The Worth of Women'' Il Merito delle Donne,
Moderata Fonte Moderata Fonte, directly translates to Modest Well is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto), (1555–1592) was a Venetian writer and poet. Besides the posthumousl ...
(1600) * "Poem 92, called Philosophical Satire",
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Sor may refer to: * Fernando Sor (1778–1839), Spanish guitarist and composer * Sor, Ariège, a French commune * SOR Libchavy, a Czech bus manufacturer * Sor, Azerbaijan, a village * Sor, Senegal, an offshore island * Sor River, a river in the Or ...
(1600s) * ''The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men''
Lucrezia Marinella Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was an Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights. She is best known for her writing ''The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men''. Her works have been noted for bringing wom ...
(1601) * ''A Muzzle for Melastomus, the Cynical Baiter of, and Foul-mouthed Barker Against Eve's Sex. Or An Apologetical Answer to that Irreligious and Illiterate Pamphlet Made by Jo. Sw. And By Him Entitled, "The Arraignment of Women"'',
Rachel Speght Rachel Speght (1597 – death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tr ...
(1617) * ''Ester Hath Hang'd Haman: An Answer To a Lewd Pamphlet, Entitled "The Arraignment of Women," With the Arraignment of Lewd, Idle Forward, and Unconstant Men, and Husbands'',
Ester Sowernam Ester Sowernam is the pseudonymous author of one of the first defences of women published in England and a participant in the Swetnam Controversy of 1615–20. Sowernam's ''Ester Hath Hanged Haman: or an answere to a lewd pamphlet, entituled, t ...
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Swetnam the Woman-Hater ''Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women'' is a Jacobean era stage play, an anonymous comedy that was part of an anti-feminist controversy of the 1615–20 period. Performance and publication ''Swetnam the Woman-Hater'' was first publish ...
'', Anonymous (1620) * ''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'',
Marie Le Jars de Gournay Marie de Gournay (; 6 October 1565, Paris – 13 July 1645) was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including ''The Equality of Men and Women'' (''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', 1622) and ' ...
(1622), translated into English as ''The Equality of Men and Women'' * ''Grief des dames'',
Marie Le Jars de Gournay Marie de Gournay (; 6 October 1565, Paris – 13 July 1645) was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including ''The Equality of Men and Women'' (''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', 1622) and ' ...
(1626), translated into English as ''The Ladies' Grievance'' * 'Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus. And how Women were the first that Preached the Tidings of the Resurrection of Jesus, and were sent by Christ's own Command, before he Ascended to the Father, John 20. 17.'',
Margaret Fell Margaret Fell orMargaret Fox ( Askew, formerly Fell; 1614 – 23 April 1702) was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends. Known popularly as the "mother of Quakerism," she is considered one of the Valiant Sixty early Quaker preachers and mi ...
(1667) * ''An Essay to Revive the Antient icEducation of Gentlewomen in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues, with An Answer to the Objections Against this Way of Education.'',
Bathsua Makin Bathsua Reginald Makin (; 1600 – c. 1675) was a teacher who contributed to the emerging criticism of woman's position in the domestic and public spheres in 17th-century England. Herself a highly educated woman, Makin was referred to as Englan ...
(1673) * ''De l'égalité des deux sexes'',
François Poullain de la Barre François Poullain de la Barre (; July 1647 – 4 May 1723) was an author, Catholic priest, and a Cartesian philosopher. Life François Poullain de la Barre was born on July 1647 in Paris, France, to a family with judicial nobility. He added "de l ...
(1673) * ''De l'Éducation des dames pour la conduite de l'esprit dans les sciences et dans les mœurs, entretiens'',
François Poullain de la Barre François Poullain de la Barre (; July 1647 – 4 May 1723) was an author, Catholic priest, and a Cartesian philosopher. Life François Poullain de la Barre was born on July 1647 in Paris, France, to a family with judicial nobility. He added "de l ...
(1674) * ''
La Princesse de Clèves ''La Princesse de Clèves'' is a French novel which was published anonymously in March 1678. It was regarded by many as the beginning of the modern tradition of the psychological novel and a classic work. Its author is generally held to be Madam ...
'', Madame de Lafayette (1678) * ''Female Advocate or, an Answer to a Late Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex'',
Sarah Fyge Egerton Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668–1723) was an English poet who wrote in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In her works ''The Female Advocate'' and ''Poems on Several Occasions'', Egerton wrote about gender, friendship, marriage, ...
(1686) * ''A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest'',
Mary Astell Mary Astell (12 November 1666 – 11 May 1731) was an English protofeminist writer, philosopher, and rhetorician. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."Batchelor, Jennie ...
(1694) * ''An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady'',
Judith Drake Judith Drake ( fl. 1670s–1723) was an English intellectual and author who was active in the last decade of the 17th century. She was part of a circle of intellectuals, authors, and philosophers which included Mary Astell, Lady Mary Chudleigh, ...
(1697) * ''A Serious Proposal, Part II'',
Mary Astell Mary Astell (12 November 1666 – 11 May 1731) was an English protofeminist writer, philosopher, and rhetorician. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."Batchelor, Jennie ...
(1697) * ''The Adventure of the Black Lady'',
Aphra Behn Aphra Behn (; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barrie ...
(1697)


18th century

*''Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered.'',
Mary Astell Mary Astell (12 November 1666 – 11 May 1731) was an English protofeminist writer, philosopher, and rhetorician. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."Batchelor, Jennie ...
(1700) *'' The Ladies' Defence, Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson'',
Lady Mary Chudleigh Mary, Lady Chudleigh (; August 1656–1710) was an English poet who belonged to an intellectual circle that included Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, Judith Drake, Elizabeth Elstob, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and John Norris. In her later ye ...
(1701) *''The Education of Women'',
Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; born Daniel Foe; – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ''Robinson Crusoe'', published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its ...
(1719) * ''The Emulation'', Sarah Fyge (1719) *''The Woman's Labour'',
Mary Collier Mary Collier (c. 1688 – 1762) was an English poet, perhaps best known for ''The Woman's Labour'', a poem described by one commentator as a "plebeian female georgic that is also a protofeminist polemic." Life Little is known of Collier's early ...
(1739) *''Letters From A Peruvian Woman'' (1747) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_a_Peruvian_Woman' *''
The Female Quixote ''The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella'' is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' ''Don Quixote''. Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, ''The Life of ...
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Charlotte Lennox Charlotte Lennox, ''née'' Ramsay (c. 1729 – 4 January 1804), was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, translator, essayist, and magazine editor, who has primarily been remembered as the author of ''The Female Quixote'', and for her associ ...
(1756) *''An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles'',
Mary Leapor Mary Leapor (1722–1746) was an English poet, born in Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, the only child of Anne Sharman (died 1741) and Philip Leapor (1693–1771), a gardener. She, out of the many labouring-class writers of the period, w ...
(1763) *''Letters on Women's Rights'',
Abigail Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's second wife, after Saul and Ahinoam's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married ...
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John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...
(1776) *''Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms'',
Judith Sargent Murray Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the ...
(1784) *''Philosophie eines Weibs: Von einer Beobachterin,''
Marianne Ehrmann Marianne Ehrmann (née: Marianne Brentano-Corti, also ''Marianne Ehrmann-Brentano'' and ''Madame Sternheim'', born 25 November 1755; † 14 August 1795) was one of the first women novelists, publicists and journalists in the German-speaking count ...
(1784) *'' Mary: A Fiction'',
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationsh ...
(1788) *''Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King'' (1789) *"Women's Petition to the
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National Assembly" (1789) *''On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship'',
Marquis de Condorcet Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal pu ...
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On the Equality of the Sexes "On the Equality of the Sexes", also known as "Essay: On the Equality of the Sexes", is a 1790 essay by Judith Sargent Murray. Murray wrote the work in 1770 but did not release it until April 1790, when she published it in two parts in two separate ...
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Judith Sargent Murray Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the ...
, from ''The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum Concerning the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, Amusements of the Age, Vol. II'' (1790) * ''
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'' (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosoph ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationsh ...
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (french: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, femini ...
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Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright ...
(1791)The Rights of Women, by Olympe De Gouges, including the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, all in English
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Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright ...
(1791) * ''Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne scritta da Rosa Califronia contessa romana,'', A Brief Defence of the Rights of Women of Rosa Califronia, Roman Countess, Rosa Califronia (1794) * ''La causa delle donne. Discorso agl'italiani della cittadina'', The Cause of Women, Discourse to Italians from a emaleCitizen, Anonymous, (1797) * '' Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman'',
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationsh ...
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19th century


1810s–1820s

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Pride and Prejudice ''Pride and Prejudice'' is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreci ...
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Jane Austen Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots of ...
(1813) *"An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New-York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education",
Emma Willard Emma Hart Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American woman's education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education, the Troy Female S ...
(1819) * "Men and Women; Brief Hypothesis concerning the Difference in their Genius", John Neal (1824) * '' The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress'',
Elizabeth Caroline Grey Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. The ...
(1828)


1830s

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Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
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George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
(pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1832) * "Marriage Law Protest",
Robert Dale Owen Robert Dale Owen (7 November 1801 – 24 June 1877) was a Scottish-born Welsh social reformer who immigrated to the United States in 1825, became a U.S. citizen, and was active in Indiana politics as member of the Democratic Party in the Indian ...
(1832) * '' Valentine'',
George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
(pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1832) * ''Lélia'',
George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
(pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1833) * ''
Jacques Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...
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George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
(pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1834) *''The History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations'',
Lydia Maria Child Lydia Maria Child ( Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and ...
(1835) *''Letters on the Equality of the Sexes'', Sarah Grimke (1837) *"Remarks Comprising in Substance Judge Hertell's Argument in the House of Assembly in the State of New York in the Session of 1837 in Support of the Bill to Restore to Married Women the 'Right of Property' as Guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States", Judge Thomas Hertell (1837) *''The Times that Try Men's Souls'',
Maria Weston Chapman Maria Weston Chapman (July 25, 1806 – July 12, 1885) was an American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist. She was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and from 1839 until 1842, she served ...
(1837) *''Woman'',
Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau (; 12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist, focusing on racism, race relations within much of her published material.Michael R. Hill (2002''Harriet Martineau: Th ...
(1837) *''On Marriage'',
Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau (; 12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist, focusing on racism, race relations within much of her published material.Michael R. Hill (2002''Harriet Martineau: Th ...
(1838)


1840s

*"Rights of Women: The Substance of a Lecture Delivered by John Neal at the Tabernacle", John Neal (1843) *'' The Great Lawsuit'',
Margaret Fuller Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movemen ...
(1843) *''Brief History of the Condition of Women: in Various Ages and Nations, Volume 2'',
Lydia Maria Child Lydia Maria Child ( Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and ...
(1845) *"The Rights and Condition of Women",
Samuel May Samuel Joseph May (September 12, 1797 – July 1, 1871) was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery. May argued on behalf of all working people that the rights of h ...
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century ''Woman in the Nineteenth Century'' is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in ''The Dial'' magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", it w ...
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Margaret Fuller Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movemen ...
(1845) *''Poganka'' (The Heathen Woman), by
Narcyza Żmichowska Narcyza Żmichowska (Warsaw, 4 March 1819 – 24 December 1876, Warsaw), also known under her popular pen name Gabryella, was a Polish novelist and poet. She is considered a precursor of feminism in Poland. Life Żmichowska became governess for ...
(1846) *''
Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first ...
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Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...
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Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter The ''Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter'' icwas an Abolitionism, abolitionist and women's rights paper printed in Pittsburgh. Founded in 1847, Jane Swisshelm was the editor and Robert M. Riddle printed the paper. It had good circulation numbers and ...
'', women's rights and abolitionist paper founded by
Jane Swisshelm Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815 – July 22, 1884) was an American Radical Republican journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate. She was one of America's first female journalists hired by Horace Greeley at hi ...
. *" Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and ph ...
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Anne Brontë Anne Brontë (, commonly ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria (born Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish cl ...
(1848) *"Voting Rights Speech",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1848) *"Discourse on Woman",
Lucretia Mott Lucretia Mott (''née'' Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongs ...
(1849) *'' The Lily'', newspaper published by
Amelia Bloomer Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associate ...
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1850s

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The Scarlet Letter ''The Scarlet Letter: A Romance'' is a work of historical fiction Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that t ...
(1850) *''Woman and Her Needs'',
Elizabeth Oakes Smith Elizabeth Oakes Smith ( Prince; August 12, 1806 – November 16, 1893) was a poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and women's rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s. Most well-known at the start of her ...
(1850–1851) *
Ain't I a Woman? "Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), born into slavery in New York State. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker. Her speech was deliver ...
speech,
Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to f ...
(1851) *"Enfranchisement of Women",
Harriet Taylor Mill Harriet Taylor Mill (née Hardy; 8 October 1807 – 3 November 1858) was a British philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her extant corpus of writing can be found in ''The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill''. Several pieces can also be fo ...
, from the ''Westminster Review'' (1851) *"Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention",
Ernestine Rose Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892) was a suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker who has been called the “first Jewish feminist.” Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the more ...
(1851) *"The Responsibilities of Woman", Clarina Howard Nichols (1851) *"
Cassandra Cassandra or Kassandra (; Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, , also , and sometimes referred to as Alexandra) in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believe ...
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Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English Reform movement, social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during t ...
(1852) *"Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention",
Matilda Joslyn Gage Matilda Joslyn Gage (March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States (i.e. the right to vote) but she also campaigned for Native Americ ...
(1852) *''
Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung ''Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung'' (also known as ''Frauen-Zeitung'', English: ''The German Woman's Journal'') was a German language newspaper founded in 1852 by Mathilde Franziska Anneke in Milwaukee. The paper focused on women's rights issues and ...
,'' German-language women's rights journal published by
Mathilde Franziska Anneke Mathilde Franziska Anneke (née Giesler; April 3, 1817 – November 25, 1884) was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In late 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaign ...
(1852). * '' Villette'',
Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...
(1853) *''What Time of Night It Is'',
Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to f ...
(1853) *''Women's Rights'',
William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December , 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read antislavery newspaper '' The Liberator'', which he found ...
(1853) *''
The Una ''The Una'' was one of the first feminist periodicals owned, written, and edited entirely by women. Launched in Providence, Rhode Island by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis in February 1853, it eventually relocated to Boston. "Out of great heart of ...
'', feminist periodical published by
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis Paulina Wright Davis ( Kellogg; August 7, 1813 – August 24, 1876) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, and educator. She was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. Early life Davis was born in Bloomfield, New ...
(1853). *"A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women",
Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. She published her influential ''Brief Summary ...
(1854) *"Address to the Legislature of New York",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1854) *"English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century",
Caroline Norton Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.Perkin, pp. 26–28. She left her husband in 1836, who sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig ...
(1854) *"A Letter to the Queen On Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill",
Caroline Norton Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.Perkin, pp. 26–28. She left her husband in 1836, who sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig ...
(1855) *''Marriage of Lucy Stone Under Protest'',
Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a colle ...
, Rev.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...
, and Henry Blackwell (1855) *" The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids", Herman Melville (1855) *'' Ruth Hall'',
Fanny Fern Fanny Fern (born Sara Payson Willis; July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense ...
(1855) * "The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise",
Agnes Pochin Agnes Pochin (née Heap; 1825 – 1908) was an early British campaigner for women's rights. She funded campaigns, wrote one of the first tracts and was one of the three speakers at the first suffrage meeting in Manchester. Life Agnes Heap was ...
(1855) *''Hertha'',
Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and feminist reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is re ...
(1856) *"Consistent democracy. The elective franchise for women. Twenty-five testimonies of prominent men, viz: ex-Gov. Anthony of R.I., Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the Abolitionism, abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery ...
, Rev. Wm.H. Channing tc. (1858) *"Female Ministry, Or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel",
Catherine Booth Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mothe ...
(1859) *"Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?",
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...
(1859)


1860s

*"A Practical Illustration of 'Woman's Right to Labor;' or, A Letter from
Marie E. Zakrzewska Marie Elisabeth Zakrzewska (6 September 1829 – 12 May 1902) was a Polish-American physician who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States. As a Berlin native, she found great interest in medicine after assisting her mother ...
, M.D., Late of Berlin, Prussia", edited by Caroline H. Dall (1860) *''A Slave's Appeal'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1860) *''Female Teaching'',
Catherine Booth Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mothe ...
(1861) * ''
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ''Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself'' is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The ...
'',
Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer whose autobiography, ''Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'', published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". Born into ...
(1861) *"A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or Woman Affranchised. An Answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouve, Comte, and Other Modern Innovators", Jenny d'Héricourt (1864) *''
A Long Fatal Love Chase ''A Long Fatal Love Chase'' is a 1866 novel by Louisa May Alcott published posthumously in 1995. Two years before the publication of ''Little Women'', Alcott uncharacteristically experimented with the style of the thriller and submitted the result ...
'',
Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...
(1866) *"Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women Considered",
Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. She published her influential ''Brief Summary ...
(1866) *''The Higher Education of Women'',
Emily Davies Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist and suffragist, and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She is remembered above all as a co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton Colleg ...
(1866) *"Address To The First Anniversary Of The American Equal Rights Association", Frances D. Gage (1867) *"Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring",
Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to f ...
(1867) *''
Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...
'',
Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and ''Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...
(1868) *"The Destructive Male",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1868) *"The Education and Employment of Women",
Josephine Butler Josephine Elizabeth Butler (' Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture ...
(1868) *''Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors'',
Frances Power Cobbe Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy group ...
(1869) *''
The Subjection of Women ''The Subjection of Women'' is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill submitted the finished manuscript ...
'',
John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to ...
(1869) * ''The Woman with Prospects'',
Concepción Arenal Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, sh ...
(Seville, Spain) (1869) *''Women and Politics'',
Charles Kingsley Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working ...
(1869)


1870s

*"About Marrying Too Young" from '' The Revolution'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1870) *"Are Women A Class?",
Lillie Blake Lillie Devereux Blake ( pen name, Tiger Lily; August 12, 1833 – December 30, 1913) was an American woman suffragist, reformer, and writer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. In her early years, Blake wrote s ...
(1870) *"Our Policy: An Address to Women Concerning the Suffrage",
Frances Power Cobbe Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy group ...
(1870) *''Man's Rights'',
Annie Denton Cridge Annie Denton Cridge (1825–1875) was a UK-born suffragist, socialist, lecturer, and author.  She moved to the United States around 1842 during the industrial and Victorian eras. Cridge was an author who wrote primarily about women's right ...
(1870) *''Endorsing Women's Enfranchisement'', Adelle Hazlett (1871) * ''Hit: Essays on Women's Rights'',
Mary Edwards Walker Mary Edwards Walker, M.D. (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor. ...
(1871) *"Letters to and from Polly Plum", Polly Plum (pen name of
Mary Ann Colclough Mary Ann Colclough ( Barnes; 20 February 1836–7 March 1885) was a New Zealand feminist and social reformer. She was born in London, England on 20 February 1836. She contributed to various colonial newspapers under the pseudonym Polly Plum. E ...
) (1871) *''On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women'',
Matilda Joslyn Gage Matilda Joslyn Gage (March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States (i.e. the right to vote) but she also campaigned for Native Americ ...
(1871) *"Put Us In Your Place" from '' The Revolution'',
Lillie Blake Lillie Devereux Blake ( pen name, Tiger Lily; August 12, 1833 – December 30, 1913) was an American woman suffragist, reformer, and writer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. In her early years, Blake wrote s ...
(1871) *''On Woman's Right to Suffrage'',
Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to s ...
(1872) *''Reasons For and Against the Enfranchisement of Women'',
Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. She published her influential ''Brief Summary ...
(1872) *''The Adventures of a Woman in Search of her Rights'',
Florence Claxton Florence Ann Claxton (26 August 1838 – 3 May 1920), later Farrington, was a British artist and humorist, most notable for her satire on the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Claxton also wrote and illustrated many humorous commentaries on contemporar ...
(1872) *''Marta'' (
Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
for "Martha"), a novel by
Eliza Orzeszkowa Eliza Orzeszkowa (6 June 184118 May 1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writerEliza Orzeszkowa< ...
(1873) *"Sentencing of
Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to s ...
for the Crime of Voting" (1873) *"Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent",
Ezra Heywood Ezra Hervey Heywood (; September 29, 1829 – May 22, 1893) was an American individualist anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and advocate of equal rights for women. Philosophy Heywood saw what he believed to be a disproportionate concentration of ...
(1873) *''Woman: Man's Equal'', Thomas Webster (1873) *"Women's Temperance Movement",
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...
(1873) *''Papa's Own Girl'',
Marie Howland Marie Stevens Case Howland (1836 – September 18, 1921) was an American feminist writer of the nineteenth century, who was closely associated with the utopian socialist movements of her era. Marie Stevens had to leave school and support her ...
(1874) *"Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Against the State Regulation of Vice",
Catherine Booth Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mothe ...
(1874) * * "Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States",
National Woman Suffrage Association The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was created after the women's rights movement spl ...
, July 4, 1876 *''Why Women Desire the Franchise'',
Frances Power Cobbe Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy group ...
(1877) *"An Appeal to the Men of New Zealand", Femina (pen name of Mary Ann Muller) (1878) *''
A Doll's House ''A Doll's House'' (Danish and nb, Et dukkehjem; also translated as ''A Doll House'') is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having bee ...
'',
Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...
(1879) *''Social Purity'',
Josephine Butler Josephine Elizabeth Butler (' Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture ...
(1879) *''The Colorado Antelope'', feminist periodical founded by Caroline Nichols Churchill in 1879, later known as the ''
Queen Bee A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female (gyne) that lives in a colony or hive of honey bees. With fully developed reproductive organs, the queen is usually the mother of most, if not all, of the bees in the beehive. Queens are developed ...
''.


1880s

* ''
Mizora ''Mizora'' is a feminist science fiction utopian novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane, first published in 1880–81, when it was serialized in the ''Cincinnati Commercial'' newspaper. It appeared in book form in 1890. ''Mizora'' is "the first portra ...
'', Mary Lane (1880–81) *''Common Sense About Women'',
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...
(1881) *''Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays'',
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...
(1881) * ''Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland'',
Augusta Bender Augusta Bender (born March 20 1846 - September 16, 1924) was a German teacher, poet, writer, and women's rights activist. Early and personal life Bender was born in the small village of Oberschefflenz in south-central Germany to a poor family of ...
(1883) *''The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States'',
Isabella Beecher Hooker Isabella Beecher Hooker (February 22, 1822 – January 25, 1907) was a leader, lecturer and social activist in the American suffragist movement. Early life Isabella Holmes Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the fifth child and secon ...
(1883) *''
The Story of an African Farm ''The Story of an African Farm'' (published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron) was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognised as one of the first feminist novels. B ...
'',
Olive Schreiner Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, pacifist, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel ''The Story of an African Farm'' (1883), which has been highly acclaimed ...
(1883) *''The Woman in her House'',
Concepción Arenal Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, sh ...
(1883) *''What Shall We Do With our Daughters? Superfluous Women and Other Lectures'',
Mary A. Livermore Mary Livermore (born Mary Ashton Rice; December 19, 1820May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. Her printed volumes included: ''Thirty Years Too Late,'' first published in 1847 as a prize temperance ...
(1883) *''The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice'',
Catherine Booth Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mothe ...
(1884) *"The Need of Liberal Divorce Laws" from the ''North American Review'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1884) *''
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State ''The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan'' (german: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats) is an 1884 philosophical treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is p ...
'',
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
, from the ''North American Review'' (1885) *''Men, Women, And Gods, And Other Lectures'',
Helen H. Gardener Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853–1925), born Alice Chenoweth, was an American author, rationalist public intellectual, political activist, and government functionary. Gardener produced many lectures, articles, and books during the 1880s and 1890s ...
(1885) *''
The Bostonians ''The Bostonians'' is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in ''The Century Magazine'' in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political co ...
'', Henry James (1886) * ''Cathy the Caryatid'' ( pl, Kaśka Kariatyda), a novel by
Gabriela Zapolska Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 25 ...
(1886) *''The Woman Question'',
Edward Aveling Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism and socialism. He was also a playwright and actor. Aveling was the author of numerous ...
and
Eleanor Marx Aveling Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a Socialism, socialist activist who sometimes w ...
(1886) *''Misogyny in Excelsis'',
Annie Besant Annie Besant ( Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights activist, educationist, writer, orator, political party member and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human f ...
(1887) *''Women and Men'',
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...
(1888) *''Women Who Go To College'',
Arthur Gilman Arthur Delevan Gilman (November 5, 1821, Newburyport, Massachusetts – July 11, 1882, Syracuse, New York) was an American architect, designer of many Boston neighborhoods, and member of the American Institute of Architects. Life and career Gi ...
(1888) * ''
New Amazonia ''New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future'' is a feminist utopian novel, written by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and first published in 1889. It was one element in the wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and e ...
'',
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (1846–1930), also known as Mrs George Corbett, was an English feminist writer, best known for her novel '' New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future'' (1889). Corbett worked as a journalist for the '' Newcastle Da ...
(1889) * ''The Administratrix'',
Emma Ghent Curtis Emma Ghent Curtis (May 18, 1860 – February 9, 1918) was an American novelist, poet, newspaper publisher, Populist, and suffragist. Curtis published two Western novels in the late 1880s. The second of these, ''The Administratrix'', is the first ...
(1889) * '' Anno Domini, or Woman's Destiny 2000''
Julius Vogel Sir Julius Vogel (24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899) was the eighth premier of New Zealand. His administration is best remembered for the issuing of bonds to fund railway construction and other public works. He was the first Jewish prime min ...
1889 * ''Ein deutsches Mädchen in Amerika'', Augusta Bender (1893)


1890s

* "Sex Slavery",
Voltairine de Cleyre Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage and the State (polity), state as well as the domination of religion over sexuality ...
(1890) * ''
Le Droit des femmes ''Le Droit des femmes'' (''Women's Rights'') was a French feminist journal that appeared from 1869 to 1891. It was founded and edited by Léon Richer, and in the early days supported financially by Maria Deraismes. The newspaper supported many wome ...
'', meaning ''Women's Rights'' (1869 to 1891) *''A Doll's House Repaired'',
Eleanor Marx Aveling Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a Socialism, socialist activist who sometimes w ...
(1891) *''The Woman's Movement in the South'', A.P. Mayo (1891) *"Transactions of the
National Council of Women of the United States The National Council of Women of the United States (NCW/US) is the oldest nonsectarian organization of women in America. Officially founded in 1888, the NCW/US is an accredited non-governmental organization (NGO) with the Department of Public In ...
" (1891) *''
A Voice from the South ''A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South'' is the first book by American author, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper. First published in 1892, the book is widely viewed as one of the first articulations of Black feminism. Busby ...
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Anna Julia Cooper Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Born into slavery ...
(1892) *"Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association" (1892) *''Solitude of Self'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1892) * "
The Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in '' The New England Magazine''. It is regarded as an important early work ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1892) *'' Woman's Progress'', Catholic women's rights periodical (1892) * ''
The New Woman ''The New Woman'' ( pl, Emancypantki) is the third of four major novels by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was composed, and appeared in newspaper serialization, in 1890-93, and dealt with societal questions involving feminism. History '' ...
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Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
: ''Emancypantki''), a novel by
Bolesław Prus Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world lit ...
(1890–93) *''So That Women May Receive the Vote'',
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia Meri may refer to: *Meri (name) *Meri (mythology), folk hero in Bororo mythology *Meri, term in shakuhachi music *''The Meri'', novel by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff *''Meri'', release title of La Mer (film) in Finland *Meri (political party), now-defunc ...
(1893) *"The Progress of Fifty Years",
Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a colle ...
(1893) * ''
Unveiling a Parallel ''Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance'' is a Feminism, feminist science fiction and Utopian and dystopian fiction, utopian novel published in 1893 in literature, 1893. The first edition of the book attributed authorship to "Two Women of the West." Th ...
'', Alice Ilgenfritz Jones & Ella Merchant (1893) *''Woman, Church, and State'',
Matilda Joslyn Gage Matilda Joslyn Gage (March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States (i.e. the right to vote) but she also campaigned for Native Americ ...
(1893) *''Women's Cause is One and Universal'',
Anna Julia Cooper Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Born into slavery ...
(1893) * "Common Sense" Applied to Women's Suffrage,
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career pr ...
(1894) *"Speech on Women's Suffrage",
Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt (; January 9, 1859 Fowler, p. 3 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt ...
(1894) *"
The Story of an Hour "The Story of an Hour" is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in ''Vogue'' on December 6, 1894, as "The Dream of an Hour". It was later reprinted in ''St. Louis Life'' on January 5, 1895, as "The Sto ...
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Kate Chopin Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
(1894) *''The New Woman'', Winona Branch Sawyer (1895) *"What Becomes of the Girl Graduates", Winona Branch Sawyer (1895) *"Anarchy and the Sex Question" from the ''New York World'',
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1896) *"Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious",
Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the ...
(1896) *''The Proletarian in the Home'',
Eleanor Marx Aveling Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a Socialism, socialist activist who sometimes w ...
(1896) *''The Women of To-Morrow'', William Hard (1896) *''Truth Before Everything'',
Catherine Booth Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mothe ...
(1897) *"Why Go To College? An Address by
Alice Freeman Palmer Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was president of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George He ...
, Formerly President of Wellesley College",
Alice Freeman Palmer Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was president of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George He ...
(1897) *''Eighty Years and More'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1898)Eighty Years And More
/ref> *''The Renaissance of Girls' Education in England, a Record of Fifty Years Progress'',
Alice Zimmern Alice Louisa Theodora Zimmern (22 September 1855 – 22 March 1939) was an English writer, translator and suffragist. Her books made a significant contribution to debate on the education and rights of women. Early years and education Zimmern wa ...
(1898) * " The Storm",
Kate Chopin Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
(1898) *''
The Woman's Bible ''The Woman's Bible'' is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. ...
'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1898) *''
Women and Economics ''Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution'' is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and a ...
'',
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1898) * '' Arqtiq'', Anna Adolph (1899) * '' The Awakening'',
Kate Chopin Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
(1899)


20th century


1900s

*"Are Homogenous Divorce Laws in All the States Desirable?" from the ''North American Review'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1900) *"Inspired" Marriage, Robert Ingersoll (1900) *"Progress of the American Woman" from the ''North American Review'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1900) *''A Bundle of Fallacies'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1901) *''Die Frauenfrage ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite'',
Lily Braun Lily Braun (2 July 1865 – 8 August 1916), born Amalie von Kretschmann, was a German feminist writer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Life She was born in Halberstadt, in the Prussian province of Saxony, the daught ...
(1901) *"Votes for Women",
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...
(1901) *''Woman'', Kate Austin (1901) *"A Response to "Republics Versus Women" by Mrs. Kate Trimble Wolsey",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1903) *"Declaration of Principles", by the
National American Woman Suffrage Association The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National ...
(1904) *"What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?" by
Anna Rüling Theodora "Theo" Anna Sprüngli (15 August 1880 – 8 May 1953), better known under the pseudonym Anna Rüling, was a German journalist whose speech in 1904 was the first political speech to address the problems faced by lesbians. One of the first ...
(1904) *"
Sultana's Dream ''Sultana's Dream'' is a 1905 Bengali feminist utopian story in English, written by Begum Rokeya, also known as Rokeya Sahkawat Hossain, a Muslim feminist, writer and social reformer from Bengal. It was published in the same year in Madras-bas ...
" from ''The Indian Ladies Magazine'',
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain") is the commonly used spelling of Rokeya's full married name, Rokeya herself is never seen to use her full married name in this English spelling. In much of her correspondence in English, she used just her initials: ...
(1905) * ''
The House of Mirth ''The House of Mirth'' is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the end of the 19th century. Wharton creates a portrait ...
'',
Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...
(1905) *''Blackburn S.D.P.'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1906) *''Kobiety'' (Women),
Zofia Nałkowska Zofia Nałkowska (, Warsaw, Congress Poland, 10 November 1884 – 17 December 1954, Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939 ...
(1906 Polish novel) *"German Socialist Women's Movement",
Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the ...
(1906) *''
Jus Suffragii ''Jus Suffragii'' was the official journal of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, published monthly from 1906 to 1924. History The International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), now called the International Alliance of Women, was formed i ...
'', the official journal of the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance The International Alliance of Women (IAW; french: Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically the main international org ...
(1906 to 1924) *''Love's Coming of Age'',
Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rightsWarren Allen Smith: ''Who's Who in Hell, A Handbook and International Directory for Human ...
(1906)Love's Coming of Age Index
/ref> *''Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage'',
Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the ...
(1906) *"Some Words to Socialist Women",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1907) *"A Response to "Why I am Opposed to Female Suffrage" by
E. Belfort Bax Ernest Belfort Bax (; 23 July 1854 – 26 November 1926) was an English barrister, journalist, philosopher, men's rights advocate, socialist, and historian. Biography Ernest Belfort Bax was born on 23 July 1854, in Leamington Spa, son of Da ...
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Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"A Review of "Women's Work and Wages" by Edward Cadbury M., Cecile Matheson and George Shann",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *'' Herland'',
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1909) *"Items of Interest",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"Items of Interest from Other Countries",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"Ladies and the Suffrage",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"Politics and Prayers",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *''The Englishwoman'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *''The Evolution of Sex'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"The Future of Woman",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"The Latest Play of the Stage Society",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"The London Congress of the International Alliance for Women Suffrage",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"The Position of Women in the Socialist Movement",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *''The Woman Movement'',
Ellen Key Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was ...
(1909) *''What Diantha Did'',
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1909–10) *"What Every Socialist Woman Should Know",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1909) *"Woman — Comrade and Equal",
Eugene V. Debs Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialism, socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five times the candidate ...
(1909) * ''Narcyza'',
Zofia Nałkowska Zofia Nałkowska (, Warsaw, Congress Poland, 10 November 1884 – 17 December 1954, Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939 ...
(1910 Polish novel)


1910s

*''Love and Marriage'',
Ellen Key Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was ...
(1911) *''Marriage and Love'',
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *'' Moving the Mountain'',
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1911) *''Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World'',
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1911) *"The Hypocrisy of Puritanism",
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *''The Sex and Woman Questions'',
Lena Morrow Lewis Martha Lena Morrow Lewis (1868-1950) was an American orator, political organizer, journalist, and newspaper editor. An activist in the prohibition, women's suffrage, and socialist movements, Lewis is best remembered as a top female leader of the ...
(1911) *"The Traffic in Women",
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *"The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation",
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *''Woman and Labor'',
Olive Schreiner Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, pacifist, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel ''The Story of an African Farm'' (1883), which has been highly acclaimed ...
(1911) * ''
Pygmalion Pygmalion or Pigmalion may refer to: Mythology * Pygmalion (mythology), a sculptor who fell in love with his statue Stage * ''Pigmalion'' (opera), a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau * ''Pygmalion'' (Rousseau), a 1762 melodrama by Jean-Jacques ...
'',
George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
(1912) *"Sudden Jolt Forward of the World",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1912) *''The Woman Voter'',
Vida Goldstein Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. ) (13 April 186915 August 1949) was an Australian suffragist and social reformer. She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 federal election, the first at which women were eligible to stand. Goldstein wa ...
(1912) *''Two Suffrage Movements'', Martha Gruening (1912) *"Womanhood Suffrage",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1912) *"The Woman With Empty Hands: The Evolution of a Suffragette", Marion Hamilton Carter (1913) *"Freedom or Death",
Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst ('' née'' Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was an English political activist who organised the UK suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, ''Time'' named her as one of the 100 Most Impo ...
(1913) *"If Men Were Seeking the Franchise",
Jane Addams Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage ...
(1913) *''Samantha on the Woman Question'',
Marietta Holley Marietta Holley (pen names, Jemyma, later, Josiah Allen's Wife; July 16, 1836 – March 1, 1926), was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and politics. Holley enjoyed a prolific writing career and was a bestselling au ...
*The Needle and the Pen, poem by Silvia Fernandez (1913) *"Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" from ''The Forerunner'',
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1913) *''A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States'', Eugene A. Hecker (1914) *''La Rosa Muerta'',
Aurora Cáceres Zoila Aurora Cáceres Moreno (1877–1958) was a writer associated with the literary movement known as modernismo. This European-based daughter of a Peruvian president wrote novels, essays, travel literature and a biography of her husband, the Guat ...
(1914) *''To the Women of Kooyong'',
Vida Goldstein Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. ) (13 April 186915 August 1949) was an Australian suffragist and social reformer. She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 federal election, the first at which women were eligible to stand. Goldstein wa ...
(1914) *''Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times'',
Alice Duer Miller Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel ''The W ...
(1915) *"How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette", Mr. Catt (married to
Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt (; January 9, 1859 Fowler, p. 3 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt ...
) (1915) *''In Times Like These'',
Nellie L. McClung Nellie Letitia McClung (; 20 October 18731 September 1951) was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book ''Sowing Seeds ...
(1915) *"The Fundamental Principle of a Republic",
Anna Howard Shaw Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Early life Shaw ...
(1915) *''Woman's Work in Municipalities'',
Mary Ritter Beard Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was a ...
(1915) *"The Crisis",
Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt (; January 9, 1859 Fowler, p. 3 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt ...
(1916) *"The Social Evil, Women's Convention, by the Women's Political Association (Non-Party)" (1916) *''Trifles: A Play in One Act'',
Susan Glaspell Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. First known ...
(1916) *'' With Her in Ourland'',
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She wa ...
(1916) *'' The Job'',
Sinclair Lewis Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was ...
(1917) * ''The Sturdy Oak'',
Elizabeth Jordan Elizabeth Garver Jordan (May 9, 1865 – February 24, 1947) was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry Ja ...
(editor) (1917) *"Speech to Congress",
Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt (; January 9, 1859 Fowler, p. 3 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt ...
(1917) *''Woman Suffrage'',
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1917) *''Women Are People!'',
Alice Duer Miller Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel ''The W ...
(1917) *"Labour Party Women's Conference",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1918) *''Married Love'',
Marie Stopes Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, ...
(1918) *"Mobilizing Woman-Power",
Harriot Stanton Blatch Harriot Eaton Blatch ( Stanton; January 20, 1856–November 20, 1940) was an American writer and suffragist. She was the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Biography Harriot Eaton Stanton was born, the sixth ...
(1918) *"A Call to Our Women Comrades",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1919) *"On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia",
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1919) *''Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America'', Victor Robinson (1919) * '' The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal?'',
Beatrice Webb Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term ''collective bargaining''. She ...
(1919) *''The Woman and the Right to Vote'',
Rafael Palma Rafael Palma y Velásquez (: October 24, 1874 May 24, 1939) was a Filipino politician, Rizalian, writer, educator and a famous Freemason. He was a senator from 1916 to 1921 and was the fourth president of the University of the Philippines. Biogr ...
(1919) *''Woman triumphant; the story of her struggles for freedom, education, and political rights. Dedicated to all noble-minded women by an appreciative member of the other sex'', Rudolph Cronau (1919) *"Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights",
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1919)


1920s

*''Communism and the Family'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1920) *"International Women's Day",
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1920) *''Jailed For Freedom'',
Doris Stevens Doris Stevens (born Dora Caroline Stevens, October 26, 1888 – March 22, 1963) was an American suffragist, woman's legal rights advocate and author. She was the first female member of the American Institute of International Law and first chai ...
(1920) *''Now We Can Begin'',
Crystal Eastman Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 28, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with ...
(1920) *''Race Motherhood, Is Woman a Race?'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1920) * ''
The Age of Innocence ''The Age of Innocence'' is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine ''Pictorial Review''. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Apple ...
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Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...
(1920) *''Woman and the New Race'',
Margaret Sanger Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control ...
(1920) *''Women and Communism'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1920) *'' Mrs. Swanwick on Women'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1921) *''Prostitution and Ways of Fighting It'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1921) *''Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1921) *''The Labor of Women in the Evolution of the Economy'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1921) *''The Morality of Birth Control'',
Margaret Sanger Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control ...
(1921) *''Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1921) *"Woman's Rights Party Platform" (1922) *''A Great Love'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1923) *''Red Love'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1923) * "Manifesto of the apaneseLeague for the Realization of Women's Suffrage" (1924) *''From a Victorian To a Modern'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...
(1925)From a Victorian to a Modern
/ref> *"The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation",
Elise Johnson McDougald Elise Johnson McDougald (October 13, 1885 – June 10, 1971), aka Gertrude Elise McDougald Ayer, was an American educator, writer, activist and first African-American woman principal in New York City public schools following the consolidation of t ...
(1925) *''Concerning Women'',
Suzanne La Follette Suzanne Clara La Follette (June 24, 1893 – April 23, 1983) was an American journalist and author who advocated for libertarian feminism in the first half of the 20th century. As an editor she helped found several magazines. She was an early and a ...
(1926) *''The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman'',
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1926) *''
A Room of One's Own ''A Room of One's Own'' is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of C ...
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Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...
(1929)


1930s

*''
Women in Music Women in music include women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists, and in other musical professions. Also, it describes music movements (e ...
'', edited by
Frédérique Petrides Frédérique Petrides (pronounced peh TREE dis), (September 26, 1903 – January 12, 1983), was a Belgian-American conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York. It consisted of women music ...
(1935) *''
Nightwood ''Nightwood'' is a 1936 novel by American author Djuna Barnes that was first published by publishing house Faber and Faber. It is one of the early prominent novels to portray explicit homosexuality between women, and as such can be considered l ...
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Djuna Barnes Djuna Barnes (, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel ''Nightwood'' (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist litera ...
(1936) *''
Three Guineas ''Three Guineas'' is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938. Background Although ''Three Guineas'' is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her ...
'',
Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...
(1938)


1940s

*''Are Women Paid Men's Rates?'', Robert L. Day, Lucy G. Woodcock, and Muriel Heagney of the Council of Action for Equal Pay (1942) *'' Laura'',
Vera Caspary Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel, ''Laura (novel), Laura'', was made into a Laura (1944 film), successful movie. Though she cl ...
(1943) *''Woman as a Force in History. A Study in Traditions and Realities'',
Mary Ritter Beard Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was a ...
(1946) * ''
The Second Sex ''The Second Sex'' (french: Le Deuxième Sexe, link=no) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history ...
'' (French: ''Le Deuxième Sexe''),
Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...
(1949)


1950s

* "Women as a Minority Group", Helen Mayer Hacker (1951) *''The Matriarchal-Brotherhood: Sex and Labor in Primitive Society'',
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1954) *''The Myth of Women's Inferiority'',
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1954) *''The Feminist Movement in the Philippines 1905-1955: A Golden Book to commemorate The Golden Jubilee of the Feminist Movement in the Philippines,'' Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido (1955)


1960s

*"The Human Situation: A Feminine View",
Valerie Saiving Valerie Saiving (1921–1992) was a feminist theologian. She is the author of the influential essay The Human Situation: A Feminine View'. Biographical details Valerie Saiving Goldstein was born in 1921, and received her BA from Bates College, Main ...
(1960) *"Kvinnans villkorliga frigivning", translated into English as "Woman's Release on Probation", Eva Moberg (1961) *''
The Golden Notebook ''The Golden Notebook'' is a 1962 novel by the British writer Doris Lessing. Like her two books that followed, it enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'' called Lessing's "inner space fiction"; ...
'',
Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing (; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remain ...
(1962) *"A Bunny's Tale, Part I", by
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1963) *"A Bunny's Tale, Part II", by
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1963) *"Equality Between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal", Alice S. Rossi (1963) *"On the Publication of the Second Sex",
Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...
(1963) *''
The Bell Jar ''The Bell Jar'' is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book ...
'',
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, ''The ...
(1963) * ''
The Feminine Mystique ''The Feminine Mystique'' is a book by Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, ''The Feminine Mystique'' became a bestseller, initially selling ...
'',
Betty Friedan Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book ''The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the se ...
(1963) *"A Study of the Feminine Mystique",
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1964) *
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced ) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segrega ...
Position Paper: Women in the Movement (1964) *"Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII",
Mary Eastwood Mary O. Eastwood (June 1, 1930 – October 10, 2015) was a pioneering American lawyer and civil rights advocate. In 1955, Eastwood graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School and then moved to Washington, D.C. Legal career After gra ...
and
Pauli Murray Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 she became one of the first women ...
(1965) *"Sex and Caste - A Kind of Memo",
Casey Hayden Sandra Cason "Casey" Hayden (born October 31, 1937), was an American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s. Recognized for her defense of direct action in the struggle against racial segregation, in 1960 she was an early r ...
and Mary King (1965) *''Up Your Ass'',
Valerie Solanas Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for the ''SCUM Manifesto'', which she self-published in 1967, and for her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas had a turbulent child ...
(1965) *''Child'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1966) *"Free Woman" from the ''San Francisco Express Times'', Heather Dean (1966) *The
National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It ...
's 1966 Statement of Purpose,
Betty Friedan Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book ''The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the se ...
(1966) *"What Concrete Steps Can Be Taken to Further the Homophile Movement", Shirley Willer (1966) *"Woman's Place: Silence or Service?",
Letha Scanzoni Letha Dawson Scanzoni (born 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American independent scholar, writer, and freelance editor. She has authored or coauthored nine books, the most well-known of which are ''All We're Meant to Be'' and ''Is the Hom ...
(1966) (original manuscript, possibly not as published in 1966) *"Women: The Longest Revolution",
Juliet Mitchell Juliet Mitchell, Lady Goody (born 4 October 1940) is a British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author. Early life and education Mitchell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1940, and then moved to England in 19 ...
(1966) *''De Schaamte Voorbij'',
Anja Meulenbelt Anja Henriëtte Meulenbelt (born 6 January 1945 in Utrecht) is a Dutch writer and former politician of the Socialist Party (SP). She wrote ''De Schaamte Voorbij'' (''The Shame is Over''), published in 1976, which was an important piece of second ...
(1967), translated into English as ''The Shame is Over'' *''Diary of a Mad Housewife'', Sue Kaufman (1967) * "Het onbehagen bij de vrouw", Joke Kool-Smits (1967), translated into English as "The Discontent of Women" * "The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational Structure", by
Radical Women Radical Women (RW) is a socialist feminist grassroots activist organization affiliated with the Freedom Socialist Party. It has branches in Seattle, Washington, and Melbourne, Australia. History Radical Women emerged in Seattle from a "Free Univ ...
(1967) *"To the Women of the Left" (1967) *"Abortion Rally Speech",
Anne Koedt Anne Koedt (born 1941) is an American radical feminist activist and author of " The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", a 1970 classic feminist work on women's sexuality. She was connected to the group New York Radical Women and was a founding member ...
(1968) *"A Letter to the Editor of ''
Ramparts Magazine ''Ramparts'' was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the New Left political movement. Unlike most of the radical magazines of the day, ''Ramparts'' was expensively ...
''", Lynn Piartney (1968) *"Black Women in Poverty", various authors (1968) *"Burial of Weeping Womanhood", Radical Women's Group (1968) *"Elevate Marriage to Partnership",
Letha Scanzoni Letha Dawson Scanzoni (born 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American independent scholar, writer, and freelance editor. She has authored or coauthored nine books, the most well-known of which are ''All We're Meant to Be'' and ''Is the Hom ...
(1968) (original manuscript, not as published in 1968) *"Funeral Oration for the Burial of Traditional Womanhood", Kathie Amatniek (1968) *"Letter to the Editor in Response to a ''Guardian'' Article",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(1968) *''Morning Hair'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1968) *
National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It ...
(N.O.W.) Bill of Rights (1968) *''No More Fun and Games: A Journal of Female Liberation'' (1968) *"No More
Miss America Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As ...
!" (press release for
Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
),
Robin Morgan Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the ...
(1968) *''Notes From the First Year'',
New York Radical Women New York Radical Women (NYRW) was an early second-wave radical feminist group that existed from 1967 to 1969. They drew nationwide media attention when they unfurled a banner inside the 1968 Miss America pageant displaying the words "Women' ...
(1968) *"Psychology Constructs the Female",
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
(1968) *"Principles",
New York Radical Women New York Radical Women (NYRW) was an early second-wave radical feminist group that existed from 1967 to 1969. They drew nationwide media attention when they unfurled a banner inside the 1968 Miss America pageant displaying the words "Women' ...
(1968) * ''
SCUM Manifesto ''SCUM Manifesto'' is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization ded ...
'',
Valerie Solanas Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for the ''SCUM Manifesto'', which she self-published in 1967, and for her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas had a turbulent child ...
(1968) *''
Sexual Politics ''Sexual Politics'' is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation. It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism's key texts. ''Sexu ...
'',
Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honor ...
(1968) *''The Church and the Second Sex'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(1968) *"The Jeanette Rankin Brigade: Woman Power? A Summary of Our Involvement",
Shulamith Firestone Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-w ...
(1968) *"The Lesbian's Other Identity",
Del Martin Dorothy Louise Taliaferro "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) and Phyllis Ann Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) were an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists. Martin and Lyon met in 1950 ...
(1968) *"The Women's Liberation Front" from ''Moderator'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1968) *"The Women's Rights Movement in the US: A New View",
Shulamith Firestone Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-w ...
(1968) *"Towards a Radical Movement",
Heather Booth Heather Booth (born December 15, 1945) is an American civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist who has been involved in activism for progressive causes. During her student years, she was active in both the civil rights movement ...
, Evie Goldfield, and Sue Munaker (1968) *"Understanding Orgasm" from ''Ramparts'',
Susan Lydon Susan Gordon Lydon (November 14, 1943July 15, 2005) was an American journalist and writer, known for her 1970 feminist essay "The Politics of Orgasm", which brought the female fake orgasm into popular discussion. She helped start ''Rolling Stone ...
(1968) *''Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement'' ewsletter(1968–1969) *"What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?" (1968) * "Women and Power",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1968) *"After Black Power, Women's Liberation",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1969) *"A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women", Patricia Haden, Donna Middleton, and Patricia Robinson (1969–1970) *"A Marriage Agreement",
Alix Kates Shulman Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Qu ...
(1969) *"Are Men Really the Enemy?", Jayne West (1969) *"An Argument for Black Women's Liberation As a Revolutionary Force", Mary Ann Weathers (1969) *"An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights" from ''Life'',
Sara Davidson Sara Davidson (born 1943) is a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the best-selling ''Loose Change''. . From ''The New York Times'' It was adapted as a television mini-series. In addition, she has written other series and ...
(1969) *'' Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female'', Frances Beal (1969) *"Equal Rights for Women",
Shirley Chisholm Shirley Anita Chisholm ( ; ; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional distr ...
(1969) *"Females and Welfare",
Betsy Warrior Betsy is an English feminine given name, often a nickname for Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth. People *Betsy (singer), Betsy, stage name of Welsh singer Elizabeth Humfrey *Betsy Ancker-Johnson (born 1927), American plasma physicist *Betsy Atk ...
(1969) *"Founding Editorial" from ''Women: A Journal of Liberation'' (1969) *"Freedom for Movement Girls - Now", vanauken (1969) *''
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of charact ...
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Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...
(1969) *"Lesbianism and Feminism", Wilda Chase (1969) * ''
Les Guérillères ''Les Guérillères'' is a 1969 novel by Monique Wittig.
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Monique Wittig Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled ''The Straigh ...
(1969) *"Politics of the Ego: A Manifesto",
New York Radical Feminists New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt in 1969, after they had left Redstockings and The Feminists, respectively. Firestone's and Koedt's desire to start this new group was a ...
(1969) *Proposed Statement of Political Principles (1969) *"Radical Feminism and Love",
Ti-Grace Atkinson Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938), better known as Ti-Grace Atkinson, is an American radical feminist activist, writer and philosopher. Life and career Atkinson was born into a prominent Louisiana family. Named after her grandmother, Gra ...
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Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
Manifesto" (1969) *"Sweet 16 to Saggy 36: Saga of American Womanhood", Cleveland Radical Women's Group (1969) *"The First Press Coverage of the
Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
" from ''Scenes'' (1969) *"The Grand Coolie Damn",
Marge Piercy Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist and writer. Her work includes ''Woman on the Edge of Time''; ''He, She and It'', which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and ''Gone to Soldiers'', a New York Times Best ...
(1969) *"The Last of the Red Hot Mammas, Or, the Liberation of Women as Performed by the Inmates of the World" (1969) * "The Next Great Moment in History Is Theirs",
Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. Early Life and Education In 1957 Gornick received a bachelor of arts degree from City College of New York and in 1960 a master of a ...
(1969) * "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation",
Margaret Benston Margaret "Maggie" Lowe Benston (1937–1991) was a professor of chemistry, computing science, and women's studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was a respected feminist and labour activist, as well as ...
(1969) *"Towards a Revolutionary Women's Union: A Strategic Perspective"', Terry R. and Lucy G. (1969)TOWARDS A REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN'S UNION: A Strategic Perspective
*"What is the Revolutionary Potential of Women's Liberation?", Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood (1969) *"Who Is the Enemy?", Roxanne Dunbar (1969) *Who We Are: Descriptions of Women's Liberation Groups (1969) *"Women and the Myth of Consumerism",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
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Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
" (1970s) *"A Proposal for Community Work",
Vivian Rothstein Vivian Leburg Rothstein (born 1946) is a labor rights activist, feminist, and community organizer. She was instrumental in the civil rights movement and the peace movement. She also cofounded the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. Early life Vivi ...
and Mary M. (1970s) *''
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman ''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'' is the title of a detective novel by P. D. James and of a TV series of four dramas developed from that novel. It was published by Faber and Faber in the UK in 1972 and by Charles Scribner's Sons in the US. The ...
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P.D. James Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring t ...
, (1972) *''Liberation of Women: Sexual Repression and the Family'', Laurel Limpus (1970s) *"About Us", San Diego Women's Collective (1970) *"Benjo Kara no Kaiho", in English "Liberation from the Toilet",
Mitsu Tanaka is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffered ...
(1970) *"Black Woman's Manifesto",
Third World Women's Alliance The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) was a revolutionary socialist women of color organization active in the United States from 1968 to 1980 that aimed at ending capitalism, racism, imperialism, and sexism. As one of the earliest groups advocat ...
(1970) *''Black Women's Liberation'', Maxine Williams and Pamela Newman (1970) *''Chains or Change'', by the Irish Women's Liberation Movement (1970) *
Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band and the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band (1969–1973) sought to challenge the genre of rock music by installing women's voices and feminist-type lyrics into the musical canon. "We loved to dance ...
lyrics (1970s) *"Erosu Kaihō Sengen", in English "Liberation from Eros,"
Mitsu Tanaka is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffered ...
(1970) *"For the Equal Rights Amendment",
Shirley Chisholm Shirley Anita Chisholm ( ; ; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional distr ...
(1970) *"Goodbye to All That" from ''Rat'',
Robin Morgan Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the ...
(1970) *'' Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics'' (1977-1992) *''I Am What I Am'', Lorna Cherot (1970) *"If That's All There Is",
Del Martin Dorothy Louise Taliaferro "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) and Phyllis Ann Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) were an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists. Martin and Lyon met in 1950 ...
(1970) *"Institutional Discrimination",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1970) *"Is Man an 'Aggressive Ape?'",
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1970) *"Judge Carswell And The 'Sex Plus' Doctrine",
Betty Friedan Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book ''The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the se ...
(1970) *''Notes From The Second Year: Women's Liberation'',
New York Radical Women New York Radical Women (NYRW) was an early second-wave radical feminist group that existed from 1967 to 1969. They drew nationwide media attention when they unfurled a banner inside the 1968 Miss America pageant displaying the words "Women' ...
(1970) * ''
off our backs ''Off Our Backs'' (stylized in all lowercase; ''oob'') was an American radical feminist periodical that ran from 1970 to 2008. It began publishing on February 27, 1970, with a twelve-page tabloid first issue. From 2002 the editors adapted it ...
'' (1970–present) *"Poor White Women", Roxanne Dunbar (1970) * ''
Sexual Politics ''Sexual Politics'' is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation. It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism's key texts. ''Sexu ...
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Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honor ...
(1970) * '' Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement'', edited by
Robin Morgan Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the ...
(1970) *"Take a Good Look at Our Problems", Pamela Newman (1970) *"The BITCH Manifesto",
Jo Freeman Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1970) *"The Building of the Gilded Cage" from ''The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1970) * '' The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution'',
Shulamith Firestone Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-w ...
(1970) * ''
The Female Eunuch ''The Female Eunuch'' is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexual ...
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Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literatu ...
(1970) *''The Liberation of Black Women'',
Pauli Murray Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 she became one of the first women ...
(1970) *"
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" is a feminist essay on Human female sexuality, women's sexuality written by American Radical feminism, radical feminist activist Anne Koedt in 1968, and published in 1970. It first appeared in a four-paragraph out ...
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Anne Koedt Anne Koedt (born 1941) is an American radical feminist activist and author of " The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", a 1970 classic feminist work on women's sexuality. She was connected to the group New York Radical Women and was a founding member ...
(1970) *"The Politics of Housework", Pat Mainardi of
Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
(1970) *"The Revolution is Happening in Our Minds" from ''Revolution II: Thinking Female'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1970) *"The Role of Government Agencies in Gaining Equal Rights for Women", DARE (1970) *"The Unfreedom of Jewish Women",
Trude Weiss-Rosmarin Trude Weiss-Rosmarin (June 17, 1908 – June 26, 1989) was a German-American writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. With her husband, she co-founded the School of the Jewish Woman in New York City in 1933, and in 1939 founded the ''Jewish ...
(1970) *" The Woman Identified Woman",
Radicalesbians This article addresses the history of lesbianism in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, the members of same-sex female couples discussed here are not known to be lesbian (rather than, for example, bisexual), but they are mentioned as part ...
(1970) *"Towards A Revolutionary Women's Union: A Strategic Perspective", Terry R. and Lucy G. (1970) *"You Are Not My God, Jehovah!", Rev. Peggy Way (1970) * "Young Lords Party Position Paper on Women", Central Committee of the
Young Lords The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
Party (1970) *''What Is a Woman?'', Norma Allen (1970) *"What Is Women's Liberation?",
Marilyn Salzman Webb Marilyn Salzman Webb (born October 26, 1942), also known as Marilyn Webb, is an American author, activist, professor, feminist and journalist. She has been involved in the civil rights, feminist, anti-Vietman war and end-of-life care movements, ...
, from WIN (1970) *"What It Would Be Like If Women Win",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1970) *"What Men Can Do For Women's Liberation", Gainesville Women's Liberation (1970) *"Who We Are", ''Siren: A Journal of Anarcho-Feminism'' (1970) *"Why 'Sex Liberation' - Raising the Problem of Women's Liberation",
Mitsu Tanaka is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffered ...
(1970) *"Why Women's Liberation is Important to Black Women", Maxine Williams (1970) *"Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life",
Meredith Tax Meredith Jane Tax (September 18, 1942 – September 25, 2022) was an American feminist writer and political activist. Early life Tax was born on September 18, 1942, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Archie Tax, a physician, and Martha B ...
(1970) *"Women: Caste, Class, or Oppressed Sex",
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1970) *"Women on the Social Science Faculties since 1892 (at the University of Chicago)",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1970) *"'Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men Too" from the *'' Women's Report'', British bi-monthly newspaper (1972–79) *''Washington Post'',
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1970) *"Women's Lib Organizations", Karen Durbin, from WIN (1970) *"Women's Lib: The War on 'Sexism'", Helen Dudar (1970) *"Women's Oppression: Cortejas", Connie Morales, Education Ministry,
Young Lords The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
(1970) *"Abortions", Gloria Colon, Ministry of Education, Central Headquarters
Young Lords Party The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
(1971) *"A Daughter and Mother Talk About Sexuality", Elaine and her mother from ''Womankind'' (1971–1972) *"A Defense of Abortion" from ''Philosophy & Public Affairs'', Vol. 1, no. 1,
Judith Jarvis Thomson Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experimen ...
(Fall 1971) *"After the Death of God the Father" from ''Commonweal'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(1971) *"Analysis of Chicago Women's Liberation School",
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
(1971) *"And Jill Came Tumbling After" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"An End to Separate and Unequal",
Trude Weiss-Rosmarin Trude Weiss-Rosmarin (June 17, 1908 – June 26, 1989) was a German-American writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. With her husband, she co-founded the School of the Jewish Woman in New York City in 1933, and in 1939 founded the ''Jewish ...
(1971)An End to Separate and Unequal
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Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner The Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA), housed at thGraduate School of Education at Stanford Universityis a centralized electronic database of Jewish communal policy research. Its collection contains more than 20,000 documents, with holdings sp ...
*"A Statement About Female Liberation" (1971) *"Bogeymen and Bogeywomen", Judy from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Can Women Love Women?" (interview by
Anne Koedt Anne Koedt (born 1941) is an American radical feminist activist and author of " The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", a 1970 classic feminist work on women's sexuality. She was connected to the group New York Radical Women and was a founding member ...
, 1971) *"Desexing the Language",
Casey Miller Casey Geddes Miller (February 26, 1919 – January 5, 1997) was an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language. With Kate Swift, her business partner and platonic domestic ...
and
Kate Swift Kate Swift (December 9, 1923 – May 7, 2011) was an American feminist writer and editor who co-wrote (with Casey Miller, her business partner and platonic domestic partner) influential books and articles about sexism in the English language.http: ...
(1971) *"Down With Sexist Upbringing!",
Letty Cottin Pogrebin Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist. She is a founding editor of ''Ms.'' magazine, the author of twelve books, and was an editorial consultant for the TV special '' Free to B ...
(1971) *"Equal Only When Obligated", Deborah Miller (1971) *"Feminism and 'The Female Eunuch'",
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1971) *"Feminism: Old Wave and New Wave", Ellen DuBois (1971) *"Free Abortion is Every Woman's Right: Statement of the
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
" (1971) *"Going Through Changes", Joan from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"High School Women Ask: What is Women's Liberation?" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"How to Start your Own Consciousness-Raising Group" (leaflet distributed by the
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
, 1971) *"Is Biology Woman's Destiny?",
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1971) *"Manifeste des 343 Salopes",
Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...
, from ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' (1971), translated into English as the " Manifesto of the 343 Sluts" *"Lemme Tell Ya About Being a Woman Lawyer...", Susan from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Lesbianism and Feminism",
Anne Koedt Anne Koedt (born 1941) is an American radical feminist activist and author of " The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", a 1970 classic feminist work on women's sexuality. She was connected to the group New York Radical Women and was a founding member ...
(1971) *"Masters of War" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Mr. Smith, Take A Memo: I've Got Some Things to Tell You" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *''
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New York Radical Feminists New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt in 1969, after they had left Redstockings and The Feminists, respectively. Firestone's and Koedt's desire to start this new group was a ...
Manifesto of Shared Rape" (1971) *"No Lady" from ''Black Maria'' (1971) *Notes for the (future
Furies Collective The Furies Collective was a short-lived commune of twelve young Feminist separatism, lesbian separatists in Washington, D.C., in 1971 and 1972. They viewed lesbianism as more political than sexual, and declared heterosexual women to be an obstacle ...
) Cell Meeting (1971) *''Notes From The Third Year: Women's Liberation'',
New York Radical Women New York Radical Women (NYRW) was an early second-wave radical feminist group that existed from 1967 to 1969. They drew nationwide media attention when they unfurled a banner inside the 1968 Miss America pageant displaying the words "Women' ...
(1971) *"Notes on a Writer's Workshop" from ''Black Maria'', Donna I. (1971) *"Politicalesbians and the Women's Liberation Movement", Anonymous Realesbians (1971) * "Position on Women's Liberation", Central Committee,
Young Lords Party The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
(1971) *"Rape: An Act of Terror", Barbara Mehrhof and Pamela Kearon (1971) *"Rape Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry", Kay Potter (1971) * "Sexism", Gloria González, Field Marshal,
Young Lords Party The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
(1971) *"Statement by Elma Barrera" (1971) * '' The First Sex'',
Elizabeth Gould Davis Elizabeth Gould Davis (June 23, 1910 – July 30, 1974) was an American librarian who wrote a feminist book called '' The First Sex''. Early life and education Davis was born in Leavenworth, Kansas to Colonel Robert Davis and Edwina Bailey McCa ...
(1971) *"The Housewife's Moment of Truth", Jane O'Reilly (1971) *"The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1971) *"The Lesbian Newsletter",
Daughters of Bilitis The Daughters of Bilitis , also called the DOB or the Daughters, was the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States. The organization, formed in San Francisco in 1955, was conceived as a social alternative to lesb ...
(1971) *"The Politics of Sterilization",
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
(1971) *"The Social Construction of the Second Sex" from ''Roles Women Play: Readings Towards Women's Liberation'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1971) *"The Vagina on Trial",
Kathleen Barry Kathleen Barry (born January 22, 1941) is an American sociologist and feminist. After researching and publishing books on international human sex trafficking, she cofounded the United Nations NGO, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW ...
(1971) *"United Women's Contingent: March On Washington Against the War" (1971) *"Using Your Maiden Name", Diane and Linda from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" from ''ArtNews'',
Linda Nochlin Linda Nochlin (''née'' Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. As a prominent feminist art h ...
(1971) *"Why Women's Liberation?" from ''Black Maria'' (1971) *"Woman as Patient", Laura Green and Womankind (1971) * ''Woman's Estate'',
Juliet Mitchell Juliet Mitchell, Lady Goody (born 4 October 1940) is a British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author. Early life and education Mitchell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1940, and then moved to England in 19 ...
(1971) *"Women: New Voice of La Raza", Mirta Vidal (1971) *"Women's Liberation: A Catholic View", Marilyn Bowers (1971) *"Women's Liberation and Its Impact on the Campus" from ''Liberal Education'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1971) *Women's March on D.C., Anne and Heidi (1971) *"Working Women Get Together", Dagmar and Laura from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Workshop Resolutions of the First National Chicana Conference" (1971) *"A Call for the Castration of Sexist Religion",
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(1972) *"Action Committee on Decent Childcare", from ''Women: A Journal of Liberation'' (1972) *"A History of International Women's Day" from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Chicago Maternity Center: 77 Years of Home Deliveries...Will This Be Its Last?", Alice from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
" from ''Women: A Journal of Liberation'',
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
and
Vivian Rothstein Vivian Leburg Rothstein (born 1946) is a labor rights activist, feminist, and community organizer. She was instrumental in the civil rights movement and the peace movement. She also cofounded the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. Early life Vivi ...
(1972) *"Cleaning Up", Mary Blake from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Covert Sex Discrimination Against Women as Medical Patients",
Carol Downer Carol Downer (born 1933 in Oklahoma) is an American feminist lawyer and non-fiction author who focused her career on abortion rights and women's health around the world. She was involved in the creation of the self-help movement and the first self- ...
(1972) *"DARE Challenges City Hall Budget" (1972) *"Don't Think", from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women
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Admiral Zumwalt Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was a United States Navy officer and the youngest person to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an Admiral (United States), admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Opera ...
(1972) *"Family Relations Court", Alice from ''Womankind'' (1972) *''
Feminist Studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppressi ...
'' (1972–present) *"Half of China" from ''Womankind'', Elaine (1972) *"Indochina Peace Campaign" from ''Womankind'' (1972) * ''Inochi no Onna-tachie: Torimidashi uman ribu ron'', in English ''For My Spiritual Sisters: A Disorderly Theory of Women's Liberation'',
Mitsu Tanaka is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffered ...
(1972) *"I Want a Wife" from ''Ms.'',
Judy Syfers Judith Ellen Brady Syfers (April 26, 1937 – May 14, 2017) was an American feminist and writer. She was involved in consciousness raising and wrote the essay "I Want a Wife" which was published in the first edition of ''Ms. (magazine), Ms.'' ...
(1972) *"I Want to Pick Your Brains", Ruth Carol (1972) *"Jewish Women Call For a Change", Ezrat Nashim (1972) *"Lesbian Mothers and Their Children" from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Lesbians in Revolt: Male Supremacy Quakes and Quivers",
Charlotte Bunch Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers ...
(1972) *'' Lesbian/Woman'',
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Dorothy Louise Taliaferro "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) and Phyllis Ann Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) were an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists. Martin and Lyon met in 1950 ...
(1972) *''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen'',
Alix Kates Shulman Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Qu ...
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NOW Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization * Now ...
Press Release on City Hall Gender Discrimination" (1972) *"On Being a Waitress", Carolyn (1972) *"One Small Step for Genkind",
Casey Miller Casey Geddes Miller (February 26, 1919 – January 5, 1997) was an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language. With Kate Swift, her business partner and platonic domestic ...
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Kate Swift Kate Swift (December 9, 1923 – May 7, 2011) was an American feminist writer and editor who co-wrote (with Casey Miller, her business partner and platonic domestic partner) influential books and articles about sexism in the English language.http: ...
(1972) *"Our Output = Their Income" from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Rape" from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Sex or, Hey, I Thought This Was Supposed to be Fun!" from ''Womankind'', Cathy (1972) *"Socialist Feminism",
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
(1972) *"Soldiers in the Streets" from ''Womankind'' (1972) *'' Surfacing'',
Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nin ...
(1972) *"That Old Problem - Sex" from ''Womankind'', Lorna (1972) *''The Coming of Lilith'',
Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before ...
(1972) *"The DARE Janitress Campaign" from ''Womankind'' (1972) * "The Emancipation of Man",
Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until h ...
(1972) *"The Fear of Childbirth is a PAIN", from ''Womankind'' (1972) *'' The Feminist Art Journal'' (1972-1977) *"The Feminization of Society",
Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...
(1972) *"The Lesbian and God-the-Father, or, All the Church Needs Is a Good Lay . . . On Its Side",
Sally Miller Gearhart Sally Miller Gearhart (April 15, 1931 – July 14, 2021) was an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hire ...
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" is an influential essay by American feminist Jo Freeman that concerns power relations within radical feminist collectives. The essay, inspired by Freeman's experiences in a 1960s women's liberation group, reflect ...
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Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1972) *"Tum'ah and Toharah: Ends and Beginnings",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1972) *"Viet Nam: The Voice of Song Will Rise Above the Sound of the Bombs" from ''Womankind'', Eileen Kreutz (1972) *"WATCH Demands", WATCH (1972) *"WATCH: Save the Chicago Maternity Center" (1972) *"We Have Had Abortions", published in ''Ms.'' (1972) * "Welfare is a Women's Issue", by
Johnnie Tillmon Johnnie Tillmon Blackston (born Johnnie Lee Percy; April 10, 1926 – November 22, 1995) was an American welfare rights activist. She is regarded as one of the most influential welfare rights activists in the country, whose work with the NWRO infl ...
, published in ''Ms.'' (1972) *"We Look At Ms.", Sue (1972) *"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision",
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "th ...
(1972) *''Women and Madness'',
Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is a renowned second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of ...
(1972) * "Women in a Socialist Society", Women's Union,
Young Lords Party The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
(1972) *''Women of La Raza Unite!'' (1972) *''
Women's Studies Quarterly ''Women's Studies Quarterly'', often referred to as ''WSQ'', is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of women's studies that was established in 1972 and published by The Feminist Press. The Feminist Press was founded by Florence Howe in 1970. ...
'' (1972–present) *"Abortion Task Force: Who We Are" from ''Womankind'' (1973) *''Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
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Fear of Flying Fear of flying is a fear of being on an airplane, or other flying vehicle, such as a helicopter, while in flight. It is also referred to as flying anxiety, flying phobia, flight phobia, aviophobia, aerophobia, or pteromechanophobia (although ae ...
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Erica Jong Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel ''Fear of Flying''. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured pro ...
(1973) *'' Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution'',
Jill Johnston Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 – September 18, 2010) was a British-born American feminist author and cultural critic who wrote '' Lesbian Nation'' in 1973 and was a longtime writer for ''The Village Voice''. She was also a leader of the lesbian ...
(1973) *"Letter from the Abortion Defense Fund" (1973) *"Me and Them Sirens Running All Night Long", Susan Cavin (1973) *"Mom on a Hook" from ''Womankind'' (1973) *"On Separatism", Lee Schwing (1973) * ''
Our Bodies, Ourselves ''Our Bodies, Ourselves'' is a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective). First published in 1970, it contains information rel ...
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Boston Women's Health Book Collective ''Our Bodies, Ourselves'' is a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective). First published in 1970, it contains information re ...
(1973) *"Posters that Express the Reality of Being a Woman", Linda Winer (1973) *"
Rape Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or ag ...
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Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "th ...
(1973) *"So Who Needs Daycare?" from ''Womankind'', Mary M. (1973) * ''The Furies'',
The Furies Collective The Furies Collective was a short-lived commune of twelve young lesbian separatists in Washington, D.C., in 1971 and 1972. They viewed lesbianism as more political than sexual, and declared heterosexual women to be an obstacle to the world revolu ...
(January 1972 until mid-1973) *"The Jane Song", Elizabeth Roberts (1973) *"The
National Black Feminist Organization The National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) was founded in 1973. The group worked to address the unique issues affecting black women in America.Wilma Pearl Mankiller. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, Houghton Mifflin Books, 1998 ...
's Statement of Purpose" (1973) *"The Status of Women in Halakhic Judaism",
Saul Berman Saul J. Berman (born April 30, 1939) is an American scholar and Modern Orthodox rabbi. Berman was ordained at Yeshiva University, from which he also received his B.A. and his M.H.L. He completed a degree in law, a J.D., at New York University, a ...
(1973) *"The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq.",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1973) *"The Women Men Don't See", James Tiptree, Jr. (pen name of
Alice Bradley Sheldon Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American people, American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not ...
) (1973) *"Vacuum Aspiration Abortion", Health Organizing Collective of Women's Health and Abortion Project (1973) *" When I Was Growing Up",
Nellie Wong Nellie Wong (born 12 September 1934) is an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong is also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. Biography Wong was born in Oakland, California to Chinese ...
(1973) *''Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers'',
Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and awar ...
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Deirdre English Deirdre English (born 1948) is the former editor of ''Mother Jones'' and author of numerous articles for national publications and television documentaries. She has taught at the State University of New York and currently teaches at the Graduate S ...
(1973) *"Abortion--the Need to Change Jewish Law",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1974) *"A Young Woman's Death: Would Health Rights Have Prevented It?", Helen Rodriquez-Trias (1974) *"Feminism, a Cause for the Halachic",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1974) *"Feminism, Art, and My Mother Sylvia",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1974) *"In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South", from ''Ms.'',
Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was aw ...
(1974) *"Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?",
Sherry Ortner Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist and has been a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since 2004. Biography Ortner grew up in a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Weequa ...
(1974) *"Marxism, Mariategui and the Women's Movement", Catalina Adrianzen (1974) *"Mother Right: A New Feminist Theory",
Jane Alpert Jane Lauren Alpert (born May 20, 1947) is an American former far left radical who conspired in the bombings of eight government and commercial office buildings in New York City in 1969. Arrested when other members of her group were caught plantin ...
(1974) *''Speculum of the Other Woman'',
Luce Irigaray Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. Irigaray's first and most well know ...
(1974) *"What Educated Women Can Do",
Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...
(1974) *'' Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1974) *"A Black Feminist's Search For Sisterhood",
Michele Wallace Michele Faith Wallace (born January 4, 1952) is a black feminist author, cultural critic, and daughter of artist Faith Ringgold. She is best known for her 1979 book ''Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman''. Wallace's writings on literature, ...
(1975) *''Abortion is a Blessing'',
Anne Nicol Gaylor Anne Nicol Gaylor (November 25, 1926 – June 14, 2015) was an American atheism, atheist and reproductive rights advocate. She co-founded the Freedom from Religion Foundation and an abortion fund for Wisconsin women. She wrote the book ''Abortio ...
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Against Our Will ''Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape'' is a 1975 book about rape by Susan Brownmiller, in which the author argues that rape is "a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." Summary Brownmiller cri ...
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Susan Brownmiller Susan Brownmiller (born Susan Warhaftig; February 15, 1935) is an American journalist, author and feminist activist best known for her 1975 book '' Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape'', which was selected by The New York Public Library as o ...
(1975) *"DAR II (Dykes for the Second American Revolution)" (1975) *"Feminist Economic Alliance Formed to Aid New Sister Credit Unions" (1975) *''
Hecate Hecate or Hekate, , ; grc-dor, Ἑκάτᾱ, Hekátā, ; la, Hecatē or . is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and in later periods depicte ...
'' (1975–present) *"How to Discriminate Against Women Without Really Trying" from ''Women: A Feminist Perspective'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1975) *''Judaism and the New Woman'',
Sally Priesand Sally Jane Priesand (born June 27, 1946) is America's first female rabbi Semikha, ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas. Priesand was ordained by the Hebrew Union Co ...
(1975) *"Lesbian Group
975 Conference Report Year 975 ( CMLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor John I raids Mesopotamia and invades Syria, using ...
(1975) *"Lesbian Pride",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1975) *''Reaching Beyond Intellect'', Hallie Iglehart and Jeanne Scott-Senior (1975) *'' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' (1975–present) *"Stand Up and Be Counted", Secret Storm (1975) * ''The Female Imagination'', Patricia Meyer Spacks (1975) * ''
The Female Man ''The Female Man'' is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ. It was originally written in 1970 and first published in 1975 by Bantam Books. Russ was an ardent feminist and challenged sexist views during the 1970s with her ...
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Joanna Russ Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'', as w ...
(1975) *"The Legal Bias Against Rape Victims (The Rape of Mr. Smith)," Connie K. Borkenhagen (1975) *"The Root Cause",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1975) * "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex,"
Gayle Rubin Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949 in South Carolina) is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prostitut ...
(1975) * "Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness,"
Sandra Bartky Sandra Lee Bartky (née Schwartz; May 5, 1935 – October 17, 2016) was a professor of philosophy and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her main research areas were feminism and phenomenology. Her notable contributions to ...
(1975) * "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,"
Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught at Bulmers ...
(1975) * ''Wages Against Housework'',
Silvia Federici Silvia Federici (born in Parma, Italy, 1942) is a scholar, teacher, and feminist activist based in New York. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. She al ...
(1975) *"What is Women's Liberation?", Secret Storm (1975) *"What Medical Students Learn", Kay Weiss (1975) *'' Woman's Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family'',
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an Communist Party USA, American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. Ther ...
(1975) *"You Are Where You Eat", Laura Shapiro (1975) *"A Feminist Tarot",
Sally Miller Gearhart Sally Miller Gearhart (April 15, 1931 – July 14, 2021) was an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hire ...
and Susan Rennie (1976) * ''
Al-Raida ''Al-Raida '' (English: ''The Woman Pioneer'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed feminist academic journal covering women's and gender studies. Established in 1976, it is published by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese ...
'' (1976–present) * ''Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman'',
Michele Wallace Michele Faith Wallace (born January 4, 1952) is a black feminist author, cultural critic, and daughter of artist Faith Ringgold. She is best known for her 1979 book ''Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman''. Wallace's writings on literature, ...
(1976) *''Blazing Star'' Vol. 2 No. 1 (July 1976) *''Blazing Star'' Vol. 2 No. 3 (October 1976) *''
Camera Obscura A camera obscura (; ) is a darkened room with a aperture, small hole or lens at one side through which an image is 3D projection, projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole. ''Camera obscura'' can also refer to analogous constructions su ...
'' (1976–present) *"Female God Language in a Jewish Context",
Rita Gross Rita M. Gross (July 6, 1943 – November 11, 2015) was an American Buddhist feminist scholar of religions and author. Before retiring, she was Professor of Comparative Studies in Religion at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. In 1974 G ...
(1976) *"Feminism: Is it Good for the Jews?",
Blu Greenberg Blu Greenberg (born January 21, 1936, in Seattle, with the name Bluma Genauer, later legally changing her first name to Blu) is an American writer specializing in modern Judaism and women's issues. Her most noted books are ''On Women and Judaism: A ...
(1976) *"Is the Women's Movement in Trouble?" from Working Papers on Socialism & Feminism, Roberta Lynch (1976) * ''
Kinflicks ''Kinflicks'' (1976) is a novel by United States of America, American writer Lisa Alther. It was Alther's first published work, and the "subject of considerable pre-publication hyperbole." Plot summary The novel starts with a first-person reflect ...
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Lisa Alther Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944) is an American author and novelist. Personal life Alther was born in Kingsport, Tennessee in 1944. Her father was a surgeon, while her mother was a homemaker. She has 3 brothers and a sister. She graduated from W ...
(1976) *"Learning From Lesbian Separatism",
Charlotte Bunch Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers ...
(1976) * ''Literary Women'', Ellen Moers (1976) * '' Lover'',
Bertha Harris Bertha Harris (December 17, 1937 – May 22, 2005) was an American lesbian novelist. She is highly regarded by critics and admirers, but her novels are less familiar to the broader public. Personal life Bertha Anne Harris was born in Fay ...
(1976) * ''Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution'',
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "th ...
(1976) *"Medical Crimes Against Women", Jenny Knauss, Janet M., Kathy Mallin, Lauren Crawford and Sharon M. (1976) *''
Meridian Meridian or a meridian line (from Latin ''meridies'' via Old French ''meridiane'', meaning “midday”) may refer to Science * Meridian (astronomy), imaginary circle in a plane perpendicular to the planes of the celestial equator and horizon * ...
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Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was aw ...
(1976) *''Our blood: prophecies and discourses on sexual politics'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1976) *"The Laugh of the Medusa",
Hélène Cixous Hélène Cixous (; ; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. She is known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, her work dealing with multiple genres: theater, literary an ...
(1976) * ''The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangement and Human Malaise'',
Dorothy Dinnerstein Dorothy Dinnerstein (April 4, 1923 – December 17, 1992) was an American academic and activist, best known for her 1976 book ''The Mermaid and the Minotaur''. Drawing from elements of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, particularly as developed by ...
(1976) *"What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity",
Elaine H. Pagels Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American history of religion, historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Ch ...
(1976) *"What is Socialist Feminism?",
Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and awar ...
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When God Was a Woman ''When God Was a Woman'' is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and art historian Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the United Kingdom as ''The Paradise Papers: The Suppression of Women's Rites''. It has been translated into Frenc ...
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Merlin Stone Merlin Stone (born Marilyn Jacobson, September 27, 1931 – February 23, 2011) was an American author, artist and academic. She was an important thinker of the feminist theology and Goddess movements and is known for her book ''When God Was a ...
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Woman on the Edge of Time ''Woman on the Edge of Time'' is a 1976 novel by Marge Piercy. It is considered a classic of utopian "speculative" science fiction as well as a feminist classic. The novel was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf. Piercy draws on several inspir ...
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Marge Piercy Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist and writer. Her work includes ''Woman on the Edge of Time''; ''He, She and It'', which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and ''Gone to Soldiers'', a New York Times Best ...
(1976) *''Women, Money and Power'',
Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is a renowned second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of ...
with Emily Jane Goodman (1976) *"Women's Liberation Builds Strong Bodies in Many Ways", Secret Storm (c. 1976) *"Women Talk Back", Secret Storm (c. 1976) *''Words and Women: A New Language in New Times'' by
Casey Miller Casey Geddes Miller (February 26, 1919 – January 5, 1997) was an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language. With Kate Swift, her business partner and platonic domestic ...
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Kate Swift Kate Swift (December 9, 1923 – May 7, 2011) was an American feminist writer and editor who co-wrote (with Casey Miller, her business partner and platonic domestic partner) influential books and articles about sexism in the English language.http: ...
(1976) *"A Black Feminist Statement",
Combahee River Collective The Combahee River Collective ( ) was a Black feminist lesbian socialist organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980. Marable, Manning; Leith Mullings (eds), ''Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal'', Combahee R ...
(1977) *"Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *"Claiming an Education",
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "th ...
(1977) *"Declaration of American Women", The President's Interagency Council on Women National Plan of Action (1977) *"How Can a Little Girl Like You Teach a Big Class of Men?",
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
(1977) *''Egalias døtre'' (in English '' Egalia's Daughters''), by
Gerd Brantenberg Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg (born October 27, 1941) is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer. Biography Brantenberg was born in Oslo, but grew up in Fredrikstad. She studied English, History, and Sociology in London, Edinburgh, and Oslo. ...
(1977) *"Left-Wing Anti-Feminism: A Revisionist Disorder",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She charac ...
(1977) *"Marx and Gandhi were Liberals: Feminism and the 'Radical' Left",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *"Monopoly Capitalism and the Women's Movement",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She charac ...
(1977) *"On the Super-Exploitation of Women",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She charac ...
(1977) *"Pornography: The New Terrorism"
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *''Sex Bias in the U.S. Code'',
United States Commission on Civil Rights The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957 during the Eisenhower administration, that is charged with the responsibility for ...
(1977) *"The Last Mile", Edith Grinnell (1977) *"The Prostitute: Paradigmatic Woman", Julia P. Stanley (1977) *"The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation: A Class Analysis",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She charac ...
(1977) *"The Simple Story of a Lesbian Girlhood",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *"The Sisterhood Rip-Off: The Destruction of the Left in the Professional Women's Caucuses",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She charac ...
(1977) *"The Subjugation of Women Under Capitalism: The Bourgeois Morality",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She charac ...
(1977) *''
The Women's Room ''The Women's Room'' is the debut novel by American feminist author Marilyn French, published in 1977. It launched French as a major participant in the feminist movement and, while French states it is not autobiographical, the book reflects man ...
'',
Marilyn French Marilyn French (; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author. Life French was born in Brooklyn to E. Charles Edwards, an engineer, and Isabel Hazz Edwards, a department store clerk. In her youth, she was a jour ...
(1977) *''This Sex Which Is Not One'',
Luce Irigaray Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. Irigaray's first and most well know ...
(1977) *"Wages for Housework and Strategies of Revolutionary Fantasy",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She charac ...
(1977) *''Who really starves?: Women and world hunger'', Lisa Leghorn and Mary Roodkowsky (1977) *''
Women's Studies in Communication ''Women's Studies in Communication'' is a feminist journal. It was first published in 1977 and is the journal of the Organization for Research on Women and Communication. It is published by Taylor & Francis. From 2014 until 2017, Joan Faber McA ...
'' (1977–present) *"A Feminist Looks at Saudi Arabia",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1978) *"Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture",
Valerie Jaudon Valerie Jaudon (born August 6, 1945) is an American painter commonly associated with various Postminimal practices – the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, site-specific public art, and new tendencies in abstraction. Life Valerie ...
and
Joyce Kozloff Joyce Kozloff (born 1942) is an American artist whose politically engaged work has been based on cartography since the early 1990s. Kozloff was one of the original members of the Pattern and Decoration movement and was an early artist in the 1970 ...
(1978) *''
Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism ''Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism'' is a 1978 anthology about socialist feminism edited by Zillah R. Eisenstein. The sociologist Rhonda F. Levine cites the work as a "superb discussion of the socialist-feminist position ...
'', collection of essays anthologized by
Zillah R. Eisenstein Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American political theorist and gender studies scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politic ...
(1978) *"Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon",
Kathie Sarachild Kathie Sarachild (born Kathie Amatniek in 1943) is an American writer and radical feminist. In 1968, she took the last name "Sarachild" after her mother Sara, coined the phrase "Sisterhood is Powerful" in a flier she wrote for the keynote speech s ...
(1978) *''
Crystal Eastman Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 28, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with ...
on Women and Revolution'', edited by
Blanche Wiesen Cook Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941 in New York City) is a historian and professor of history. She is a recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award. Books Cook is the author of a three-volume biography about Eleanor Roosevelt: ''Eleanor Roosevel ...
(1978) *"Fat is A Feminist Issue",
Susie Orbach Susie Orbach (born 6 November 1946) is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her first book, ''Fat is a Feminist Issue'', analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against m ...
(1978) *"Full Employment: Toward Economic Equality For Women",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1978) *''Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(1978) *"On the
National Black Feminist Organization The National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) was founded in 1973. The group worked to address the unique issues affecting black women in America.Wilma Pearl Mankiller. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, Houghton Mifflin Books, 1998 ...
",
Michele Wallace Michele Faith Wallace (born January 4, 1952) is a black feminist author, cultural critic, and daughter of artist Faith Ringgold. She is best known for her 1979 book ''Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman''. Wallace's writings on literature, ...
(1978) *"The New Woman's Broken Heart",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1978) *''
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography ''The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography'' is a 1978 non-fiction book by Angela Carter. The book is a feminist re-appraisal of the work of the Marquis de Sade, consisting of a collection of essays analyzing his literature, particularly ...
'',
Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...
(1978) *"The Wander-ground",
Sally Miller Gearhart Sally Miller Gearhart (April 15, 1931 – July 14, 2021) was an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hire ...
(1978) *"Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power",
Audre Lorde Audre Lorde (; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, womanist, radical feminist, professor, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," who ...
(1978) *"Why So-called Radical Men Love and Need Pornography",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1978) *"Why Women Need the Goddess",
Carol P. Christ Carol Patrice Christ (December 20, 1945 – July 14, 2021) was a feminist historian, Thealogy, thealogian, author, and foremother of the Goddess movement. She obtained her PhD from Yale University and served as a professor at universities such as ...
(1978) *'' X: A Fabulous Child's Story'',
Lois Gould Lois Gould (December 18, 1931 – May 29, 2002) was an American writer, known for her novels and other works about women's lives. Personal life Lois Gould was born Lois Adele Regensburg on December 18, 1931 in Manhattan. She was the daughter of fa ...
(1978) *"Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(1979) *"Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet" from ''Newsday'',
Susan Brownmiller Susan Brownmiller (born Susan Warhaftig; February 15, 1935) is an American journalist, author and feminist activist best known for her 1975 book '' Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape'', which was selected by The New York Public Library as o ...
(1979) *'' On Lies, Secrets and Silence'',
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "th ...
(1979) *'' Opera: The Undoing of Women'',
Catherine Clément Catherine Clément (; born 10 February 1939) is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Cla ...
(1979) *''Sexual harassment of working women: a case of sex discrimination'',
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(1979) * ''
The Bloody Chamber ''The Bloody Chamber'' (or ''The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories'') is a collection of short fiction by English writer Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Gollancz and won the Cheltenham Festival Literary ...
'',
Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...
(1979) *"The Double Standard of Aging",
Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her ...
(1979) *"The Lie",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1979) * ''
The Madwoman in the Attic ''The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination'' is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which they examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective. Gilbert and Gubar draw their ...
'',
Sandra Gilbert Sandra M. Gilbert (born December 27, 1936) is an American literary critic and poet who has published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. She is best known for her collaborative critical work ...
and
Susan Gubar Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944) is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University. She is best known for co-authoring the landmark feminist literary study '' The Madwoman in t ...
(1979) *"The Night and Danger",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1979) *''
The Transsexual Empire ''The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male'' is a 1979 book critical of transgender people by American radical feminist author and activist Janice Raymond. The book is derived from Raymond's dissertation, which was produced under the sup ...
'',
Janice Raymond Janice G. Raymond (born January 24, 1943) is an American lesbian radical feminist and professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is known for her work against violence, sexual explo ...
(1979) *"35% of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized", Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization (late 1970s) * "The Tyranny of Tyranny", Cathy Levine (1979) * ''Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her'',
Susan Griffin Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works. Life Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943 and has resided in ...
(1979) *''Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion'' edited by
Carol P. Christ Carol Patrice Christ (December 20, 1945 – July 14, 2021) was a feminist historian, Thealogy, thealogian, author, and foremother of the Goddess movement. She obtained her PhD from Yale University and served as a professor at universities such as ...
and
Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before ...
(1979) * ''Women and Household Labor'', Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, ed. (1979)


1980s

*"A Woman Writer and Pornography",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1980) *"
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" is a 1980 essay by Adrienne Rich, which was also published in her 1986 book ''Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985'' as a part of the radical feminism Radical feminism is a per ...
", Adrienne Rich (1980) *''
Man Made Language ''Man Made Language'' (1980) is a book by Australian feminist writer Dale Spender. In it she examines numerous areas of sexism as it appears in nature and in the use of the English language, with particular focus on the way men and women talk and l ...
'', Dale Spender (1980) *''The Sceptical Feminist: A Philosophical Enquiry'',
Janet Radcliffe Richards Janet Radcliffe Richards (born 1944) is a British philosopher specialising in bioethics and feminism and Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She is the author of ''The Sceptical Feminist'' (1980), ''Philosophical Probl ...
(1980) *''The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing'',
Casey Miller Casey Geddes Miller (February 26, 1919 – January 5, 1997) was an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language. With Kate Swift, her business partner and platonic domestic ...
and
Kate Swift Kate Swift (December 9, 1923 – May 7, 2011) was an American feminist writer and editor who co-wrote (with Casey Miller, her business partner and platonic domestic partner) influential books and articles about sexism in the English language.http: ...
(1980) *''The New Woman's Broken Heart: Short Stories'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1980) *"True Liberation of Women",
Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...
(1980) *"What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work",
Dolores Hayden Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian, architect, author, and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the soc ...
*"Women and Urban Policy",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1980) * '' Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism'', bell hooks (1981) *"Nature's Revenge",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(1981) *"Pornography and Male Supremacy",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) *'' Pornography: Men Possessing Women'', Andrea Dworkin (1981) *"Pornography's Part in Sexual Violence",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) *"The ACLU: Bait and Switch",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) *'' This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color'', Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (1981) *"Toward A Feminist Jurisprudence",
Ann C. Scales Ann C. Scales (May 29, 1952 – June 24, 2012) was an American lawyer, activist, and law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law from 2003 to 2012, where she taught in constitutional law, sexual orientation and the law, civil ...
(1981) *"Why Pornography Matters to Feminists",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) * '' Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis'', edited by Robin Ruth Linden, Darlene R. Pagano, Diana E. H. Russell, and Susan Leigh Star (1982) *'' All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies'', edited by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith (1982) *''
Feministische Studien ''Feministische Studien (Feminist Studies)'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal, published since 1982. It features articles written in German and English, covering on women's studies. It is published by the Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesells ...
'' (; 1982–present) *'' Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy'' (1982–present) *'' In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development'', Carol Gilligan (1982) *''Invisible Women: The Schooling Scandal'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1982) *''
Powers of Horror ''Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection'' (french: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva. The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmu ...
'', Julia Kristeva (1982) *''The Anatomy of Freedom'',
Robin Morgan Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the ...
(1982) *''
The Color Purple ''The Color Purple'' is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
'', Alice Walker (1982) *"The Importance of Women's Paid Labour: Women at Work in World War II", Lynn Beaton (1982) *'' Zami: A New Spelling of My Name'', Audre Lorde (1982) *''Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
, ed. (1983) *'' For Love or Money, a Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia'', Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and
Jeni Thornley Jeni Thornley (born 1948) is an Australian feminist documentary filmmaker, writer, film valuer and research associate at University of Technology, Sydney. Since leaving her job as Manager of the Women's Film Fund at the Australian Film Commiss ...
(1983) *''
Home Girls ''Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology'' (1983) is a collection of Black lesbian and Black feminist essays, edited by Barbara Smith. The anthology includes different accounts from 32 black women of feminist ideology who come from a variety of d ...
'', various authors (1983) * ''
How to Suppress Women's Writing ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'' is a book by Joanna Russ, published in 1983. Written in the style of a sarcastic and irreverent guidebook, it explains how women are prevented from producing written works, not given credit when such works are pr ...
'', Joanna Russ (1983) *'' In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose'', Alice Walker (1983) *"I've Had Nothing Yet, So I Can't Take More",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1983) * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'',
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1983) * ''Right Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1983) * ''Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology'',
Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology. Her teaching and her writings helped est ...
(1983) * '' The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory'', Marilyn Frye (1983) * ''There's Always Been a Women's Movement in the Twentieth Century'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1983) * "Whose Press? Whose Freedom?",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1983) * "Comparable Worth" from ''In These Times'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1984) * "Female Rabbis, Male Fears", Chaim Sedler-Feller (1984) * ''In Search of Answers: Indian Women's Voices'',
Madhu Kishwar Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a commentator.
and
Ruth Vanita Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy. Early life and education Vanita earne ...
* '' Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center'', bell hooks (1984) * "I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There is No Rape",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1984) * ''Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(1984) * '' Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology'', edited by Robin Morgan (1984) * ''
Sister Outsider ''Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches'' is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a writer who focuses on the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist ...
'', Audre Lorde (1984) *'' The Man of Reason: 'Male' and 'Female' in Western Philosophy'', Genevieve Lloyd (1984) *"The Missing Rib: The Forgotten Place of Queens and Priestesses in the Establishment of Zion",
Margaret Toscano Margaret Toscano (born 9 August 1956) is an Indian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). ...
(1984) *"Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography and Equality",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1985) *"A Person Paper on Purity in Language", William Satire (pen name of Douglas Richard Hofstadter) (1985) * ''
Australian Feminist Studies ''Australian Feminist Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering feminist studies. It was established in 1985 and is published by Routledge. The founding editor-in-chief was Susan Magarey (University of Adelaide). She was su ...
'' (1985–present) * ''Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals'',
Marilyn French Marilyn French (; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author. Life French was born in Brooklyn to E. Charles Edwards, an engineer, and Isabel Hazz Edwards, a department store clerk. In her youth, she was a jour ...
(1985) * "Breaking With Invisibility", Cady (1985) * ''For the Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1985) * "Loving Books: Male/Female/Feminist" from ''Hot Wire'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1985) * ''Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays'',
Joanna Russ Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'', as w ...
(1985) * "Shifting Horizons", Lynn Beaton (1985) * ''
The Handmaid's Tale ''The Handmaid's Tale'' is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which h ...
'', Margaret Atwood (1985) * ''The Reasons Why: Essays on the New Civil Rights Law Recognizing Pornography as Sex Discrimination'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
and
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(1985) * ''Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Select Prose (1979–1985)'',
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "th ...
(1986) *'' Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World'', Kumari Jayawardena (1986) * ''Feminist Studies, Critical Studies'',
Teresa de Lauretis Teresa de Lauretis (; born 1938 in Bologna) is an Italian author and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her areas of interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, ...
(1986) *"Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis",
Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941) is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history. She is a professor emerita in the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Scott ...
(1986) *''Ice and Fire'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1986) *"If Men Could Menstruate" from ''Ms.'',
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1986) *"Letter from a War Zone",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1986) *''Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody'',
Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is a renowned second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of ...
(1986) *''
Agenda Agenda may refer to: Information management * Agenda (meeting), points to be discussed and acted upon, displayed as a list * Political agenda, the set of goals of an ideological group * Lotus Agenda, a DOS-based personal information manager * Pers ...
'' (1987–present) * '' Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza'', Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) * '' Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law'', Catharine MacKinnon (1987) * '' Intercourse'', Andrea Dworkin (1987) *''
Landscape for a Good Woman ''Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives'' is a non-fiction book by Carolyn Steedman, published by Rutgers University Press in 1987. The book is an autobiographical class analysis which looks at the author's working class upbringing i ...
'', Carolyn Kay Steedman (1987) *''Making it: A Woman's Guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS'', Cindy Patton and Janis Kelly (1987) *'' Reconstructing Womanhood'', Hazel Carby (1987) *''The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth'', Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor (198

*"Voyage in the Dark: Hers and Ours",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1987) *''Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language, Conjured in Cahoots with Jane Caputi'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
, Jane Caputi and Sudie Rakusin (1987) *"Who You Know Versus Who You Represent: Feminist Influence in the Democratic and Republican Parties",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1987) *''Feminism and Anthropology'',
Henrietta Moore Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, (born 18 May 1957) is a British social anthropologist. She is the director of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College, London (UCL), part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment. ...
(1988) *Feminist Activities at the 1988 Republican Convention,
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1988) *''
Feminist Formations ''Feminist Formations'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1988 as the ''NWSA Journal'' (also known as the ''National Women's Studies Association Journal''); the name was changed beginning with the Spring 2010 issue. It publishes ...
'' (1988–present) *''Feminist Literary History'',
Janet Todd Janet Margaret Todd OBE (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author. She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. Much of her work concerns Mary ...
(1988) *"Handle With Care: We Need a Child-Rearing Movement",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(1988) *'' If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics'', Marilyn Waring (1988) * ''Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value'',
Sarah Lucia Hoagland Sarah Lucia Hoagland (born 4 June 1945 in Denver, Colorado) is the Bernard Brommel Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Biography She authored ' ...
(1988) *''Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
and
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(1988) *"Social Revolution and the Equal Rights Amendment",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1988) *''
The Heidi Chronicles ''The Heidi Chronicles'' is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Production history A workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre was held in April 1988, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, starrin ...
'', Wendy Wasserstein (1988) *"Women at the 1988 Democratic Convention",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1988) *''
The Women's History of the World ''The Women's History of the World'' () is a book about women's history written by British author Rosalind Miles Ph.D., first published in 1988. Later editions, including the paperback versions of the book, were titled ''Who Cooked The Last Suppe ...
'', Rosalind Miles (1989) *''
A Vindication of The Rights of Whores ''A Vindication of The Rights of Whores'' is a 1989 anthology edited by with a preface by Margo St. James. The book consists of the voices of a diverse group of prostitutes, sex worker rights activists, and feminist scholars from around the wor ...
'', edited by Gail Pheterson (1989) *'' Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics'', Cynthia Enloe (1989) *''
Dancing at the Edge of the World ''Dancing at the Edge of the World'' is a 1989 nonfiction collection by Ursula K. Le Guin. The works are divided into two categories: talks and essays, and book and movie reviews. Within the categories, the works are organized chronologically, a ...
'', Ursula K. Le Guin (1989) *'' Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies'' (1989–present) *'' Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'', Judith Butler (1989) *''Letters from a War Zone: Writings, 1976–1989'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1989) *''Makaan'', Paigham Afaqui (1989) *"Men, Women and Biblical Equality",
Christians for Biblical Equality Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE) is an organization that promotes Christian egalitarianism also known as evangelical feminism and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. CBE's Mission Statement reads: "CBE exists to promote biblica ...
(1989) *"More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing",
Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
(1989) * "Presenting...Sister No Blues", Hattie Gossett (1989) * "Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: 'Pleasure Under Patriarchy'",
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(1989) *''The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home'',
Arlie Russell Hochschild Arlie Russell Hochschild (; born January 15, 1940) is an American professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and writer. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions that underlie moral beliefs, practices, and ...
and Anne Machung (1989) * ''
The Temple of My Familiar ''The Temple of My Familiar'' is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative Multiperspectivity (sometimes polyperspectivity) is a characteristic of narration or representation, where more than one perspective is represe ...
'', Alice Walker (1989) * ''The Writing or the Sex?, Or, Why You Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know It's No Good'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1989) * ''
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State ''Toward a Feminist Theory of the State'' is a 1989 book about feminist political theory by the legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon. Summary MacKinnon argues that feminism had "no account of male power as an ordered yet deranged whole"; that is, ...
'', Catharine MacKinnon (1989) * "What Battery Really Is",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1989) * ''Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality'', edited by
Carol P. Christ Carol Patrice Christ (December 20, 1945 – July 14, 2021) was a feminist historian, Thealogy, thealogian, author, and foremother of the Goddess movement. She obtained her PhD from Yale University and served as a professor at universities such as ...
and
Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before ...
(1989) * "Women, Sex, & Rock ’n’ Roll", by Terri Sutton (1989)


1990s

*''Dominant Constructions of Women and Nature in Social Science Literature'', Brinda Rao (1991) *"What is Riot Grrrl?" (early 1990s) *'' Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment'', Patricia Hill Collins (1990) *''Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975'',
Alice Echols Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Retrieved March 17, 2013 Education Echols received her bachelor's degree from Macalester College, Minne ...
(1990) *"God Is a Woman and She Is Growing Older",
Margaret Wenig Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi known for advocating LGBT rights within Reform Judaism. Margaret became spiritually aware at an early age. A seminal moment in her development occurred when she was in sixth grade and had a bir ...
(1990) *''
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy The ''Journal of Women, Politics & Policy'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge which covers women's roles in the political process. It was established in 1980 and changed from ''Women & Politics'' to its current name in 200 ...
'' (1990–present) *''Mercy'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1990) *'' The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory'', Carol J. Adams (1990) *"Who Says We Haven't Made a Revolution?: A Feminist Takes Stock",
Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. Early Life and Education In 1957 Gornick received a bachelor of arts degree from City College of New York and in 1960 a master of a ...
(1990) *"Will There Be Orthodox Women Rabbis?",
Blu Greenberg Blu Greenberg (born January 21, 1936, in Seattle, with the name Bluma Genauer, later legally changing her first name to Blu) is an American writer specializing in modern Judaism and women's issues. Her most noted books are ''On Women and Judaism: A ...
(1990) *"A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives",
Lenore Blum Lenore Carol Blum (née Epstein, born December 18, 1942) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made pioneering contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She ...
(1991) *"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century",
Donna Haraway Donna J. Haraway is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. Sh ...
(1991) *'' Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'', Susan Faludi (1991) *'' Dirty Weekend'', Helen Zahavi (1991) *''
Feminism & Psychology ''Feminism & Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers feminist theory and practice in psychology. It was established in 1991 and is published by SAGE Publications. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted ...
'' (1991–present) *"How 'Sex' Got Into Title VII: Persistent Opportunism as a Maker of Public Policy",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1991) *"Justice Is a Woman with a Sword",
D. A. Clarke D. A. Clarke (also known as De Clarke and DeAnander) is an American radical feminist essayist and activist, notable for her development of feminist theory, and for the anonymous poem ''privilege''. Career Much of Clarke's writing addresses the ...
(1991) *"Riot Grrrl Manifesto" from Bikini Kill Zine 2,
Kathleen Hanna Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. In the early-to-mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band ...
(1991) *''Sexo y filosofía: sobre "mujer" y "poder"'',
Amelia Valcárcel Amelia Valcárcel (November 16, 1950) is a Spanish philosopher and feminist. She is considered within the “philosophic feminism” as part of the “equality feminism” approach. In 2015 she is a professor in Moral and Political Philosophy a ...
(1991) *''Sexual/Textual Politics'',
Toril Moi Toril Moi (born 28 November 1953 in Farsund, Norway) is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies at Duke University. Moi is also the Director of the Center for Philosophy, ...
(1991) *''Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective'',
Judith Plaskow Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before ...
(1991) *"Terror, Torture, and Resistance",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1991) *''
The Beauty Myth ''The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women'' is a nonfiction book by Naomi Wolf, originally published in 1990 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and William Morrow and Company, William Morrow & Co (1991) in the United States. It was ...
'', Naomi Wolf (1991) *"The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles", Emily Martin (1991) *"We Learned the Wrong Lessons in Vietnam: A Feminist Issue Still",
Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honor ...
,
Robin Morgan Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the ...
,
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
and
Ti-Grace Atkinson Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938), better known as Ti-Grace Atkinson, is an American radical feminist activist, writer and philosopher. Life and career Atkinson was born into a prominent Louisiana family. Named after her grandmother, Gra ...
(1991) *"With No Immediate Cause",
Ntozake Shange Ntozake Shange ( ;
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(1991) *''Writing War: Fiction, Gender & Memory'', Lynne Hanley (1991) *"Becoming the Third Wave", Rebecca Walker (1992) *''Daughters of Africa, Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent'', edited by Margaret Busby (1992) *''Jabo na keno? jabo, Jabo na kena? Jabo'', Taslima Nasrin (1992) *''Naree'', Humayun Azad (1992) *''Nirbachito Column'', Taslima Nasrin (1992) *''Outercourse: The Bedazzling Voyage, Containing Recollections from My Logbook of a Radical Feminist Philosopher'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(1992) *''Possessing the Secret of Joy'', Alice Walker (1992) *"Power, Resistance and Science",
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
(1992) *"Prostitution and Male Supremacy",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1992) *''Race, Class and Gender in the U.S.'', Paula Rothenberg (1992) *"Replacements (short story), Replacements", Lisa Tuttle (1992) *''Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem'',
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(1992) *"Talking Our Way In",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1992) *''The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Opposite Sex, or the Inferior Sex'', Carol Tavris (1992) *''The Straight Mind and Other Essays'', Monique Wittig (1992) *''The War Against Women'',
Marilyn French Marilyn French (; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author. Life French was born in Brooklyn to E. Charles Edwards, an engineer, and Isabel Hazz Edwards, a department store clerk. In her youth, she was a jour ...
(1992) *"Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism", edited by Maxine Hanks (1992) *''Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1992) *''Women Who Run With the Wolves, Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'', Clarissa Pinkola Estes (1992) *"Are Opinions Male?", Naomi Wolf (1993) *"A Soldier Is a Soldier", Rosemary Bryant Mariner (1993) *''Ecofeminism and the Sacred'', Carol J. Adams (1993) *"Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health", Greta Gaard and Lori Gruen (1993) *"Feminism Versus Family Values: Women at the 1992 Democratic and Republican Conventions",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1993) *''Fire with Fire: The New Female Power And How It Will Change the 21st Century'', Naomi Wolf (1993) *"In Your Blood, Live: Re-visions of a Theology of Purity",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1993) *"Not Just Bad Sex", Katha Pollitt (1993) *''Only Words (book), Only Words'', Catharine MacKinnon (1993) *''The Feminist Chronicles'' (1993), Toni Carabillo, June Csidan and Judith Meuli *''The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism'', L. Susan Brown (1993) *''Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body'', Susan Bordo (1993) *''Warrior Marks, Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women'', Alice Walkernand Pratibha Parmar (1993) *''Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings'', Miriam Schneir (1994) *''Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing'',
Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology. Her teaching and her writings helped est ...
(1994) *''Gender Outlaw'', Kate Bornstein (1994) *''Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering'', Maureen T. Reddy, Martha Roth and Amy Sheldon (1994) *''Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals'', Carol J. Adams (1994) *''Nine Parts of Desire'', Geraldine Brooks (1994) *''Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience'', edited by George D. Smith (1994) *''Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature'', Dorothy Allison (1994) *"Suffragette City: The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band", Ben Kim (1994) *''The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870'', Gerda Lerner (1994) *"The Unremembered: Searching for Women at the Holocaust Memorial Museum",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1994) *"Why Women Need Freedom from Religion", Annie Laurie Gaylor (1994) *''Feminist Economics (journal), Feminist Economics'' (1995–present) *''From Suffrage to Women's Liberation: Feminism in Twentieth Century America'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1995) *"From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond", Dorothy Fadiman (1995) *''Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation'', edited by Barbara Findlen (1995) *''Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma'', Ana Castillo (1995) *"Memoirs of a Feminist Therapist", Joan Saks Berman (1995) *''Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1995) *"On the Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a Strictly Personal Perspective",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1995) *"Plenary Address of the Fourth World Conference on Women", Bella Abzug (1995) *''Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars'', Margaret Wertheim (1995) *"The Power of the Word: Culture, Censorship and Voice",
Meredith Tax Meredith Jane Tax (September 18, 1942 – September 25, 2022) was an American feminist writer and political activist. Early life Tax was born on September 18, 1942, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Archie Tax, a physician, and Martha B ...
with Marjorie Agosin, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ritu Menon, Ninotchka Rosca, and Mariella Sala (1995) *"The Revolution for Women in Law and Public Policy",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1995) *"The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal Behavior", Nancy Henley and
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1995) *''To Be Real'', edited by Rebecca Walker (1995) *"(Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism", Teresa Ebert (1995) *''Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media'', Susan J. Douglas (1994) *''Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations'', Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan (1994) *''Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust'', R. Ruth Linden (1995) *"Women and Aids", Donna Shalala (1995) *"Women and Health Security", Hillary Clinton (1995) *''Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought'', Beverly Guy-Sheftall (ed.) (1995) *"A Good Rape",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1996) *"Barred From the Bar - A History of Women and the Legal Profession", Hedda Garza (1996) *"Beijing Report: The Fourth World Conference on Women" from ''off our backs'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1996) *"Days of Celebration and Resistance: The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973",
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
(1996) *''n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal'' (1996–present) *"Remarks to Wellesley College Class of 1996" (commencement speech), Nora Ephron (1996) *''The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football: Sexism and the Culture of Sport'', Mariah Burton Nelson (1994) *''The Vagina Monologues'', Eve Ensler (1996) *"U.N. Reviews Women's Progress One Year After Beijing" from ''off our backs'',
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1996) *"Waves of Feminism",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1996) *"We've Come a Long Way...?",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1996) *"Whatever Happened to Republican Feminists?",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1996) *"What's In a Name? Does It Matter How the Equal Rights Amendment is Worded?",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1996) *"Womb for Rent: Surrogate Motherhood and the Case of Baby M", Anita Silvers and Sterling Harwood, in Sterling Harwood, ed., ''Business as Ethical and Business as Usual'', pp. 190–193. (1996) *"Change and Continuity for Women at the 1996 Republican and Democratic Conventions",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1997) *''In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings'',
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(1997) *''Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War against Women'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1997) *''Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy'', Susan Hogan (historian), Susan Hogan (1997) *"Power, Resistance and Science: A Call for a Revitalized Feminist Psychology",
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
(1997) *"Remarks on Naomi Weisstein", Jesse Lemisch and
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
(1997) *"Selected Quotes From ''Women Without Superstition: No Gods - No Masters''", Annie Laurie Gaylor (ed.) (1997) *''The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses'', Oyeronke Oyewumi (1997) *''Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlash'', edited by Julie Mitchell and Ann Oakley (1997) *''And Who Will Make the Chapatis?'', edited by Bishakha Datta (1998) *''Cunt: A Declaration of Independence'', Inga Muscio (1998) *"Dear Bill and Hillary",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1998) *''Letters to a Young Feminist'',
Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is a renowned second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of ...
(1998) *"Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism", Martha E. Gimenez (1998) *"Mother Wit",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(1998) *''Saman (novel), Saman'', Ayu Utami (1998) *"Seneca Falls Anniversary Speech", Hillary Clinton (1998) *''Sex and Social Justice'', Martha Nussbaum (1998) *"She Said" from ''Calyx'', Judith Arcana (1998) * ''The Economics of Gender'', Joyce P. Jacobson (1998) *''The Last Suffragist'', Ellen DuBois (1998) *"The Magnolia Street Commune",
Vivian Rothstein Vivian Leburg Rothstein (born 1946) is a labor rights activist, feminist, and community organizer. She was instrumental in the civil rights movement and the peace movement. She also cofounded the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. Early life Vivi ...
(1998) *"The Religious War Against Women", Annie Laurie Gaylor (1998) *"Three Pieces About Abortion" from Calyx and Hurricane Alice, Judith Arcana (1998) *''Tipping the Velvet'', Sarah Waters (1998) *''Quintessence... Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(1998) * ''Upanibesh'', Sarojini Sahoo (1998) *"When Men Were Men", bell hooks (1998) *"Abortion and the Underground", Cheryl Terhor (1999) *"Ain't She Still a Woman?", bell hooks (1999) *"Are Women Human?",
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(1999) *"Are You Listening, Hillary? President Rape Is Who He Is",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1999) *"Chicago Was at Center of Feminist Activities", Angela Bonavoglia (1999) *"CWLU Work Groups and Personal Transformation", Sue Davenport, Paula Kamen, and the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, CWLU Herstory Committee (1999) *''Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire'', Sonia Shah (ed.) (1999) *''Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics'',
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(1999) *"Feminism, Moralism, and That Woman",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(1999) *"Founding and Sustaining a Women's Studies Program", Judith Kegan Gardiner (1999) *''International Feminist Journal of Politics'' (1999–present) *"Jo Freeman (also known as
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
)", Jennifer Scanlon (1999) *"Monica and Barbara and Primal Concerns",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(1999) *"Our Gang of Four: Friendships and Women's Liberation", Amy Kesselman with
Heather Booth Heather Booth (born December 15, 1945) is an American civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist who has been involved in activism for progressive causes. During her student years, she was active in both the civil rights movement ...
,
Vivian Rothstein Vivian Leburg Rothstein (born 1946) is a labor rights activist, feminist, and community organizer. She was instrumental in the civil rights movement and the peace movement. She also cofounded the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. Early life Vivi ...
, and
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
(1999) *"Penis Passion", bell hooks (1999) *''Pratibandi'', Sarojini Sahoo (1999) *"Sex, Race, Religion, and Partisan Alignment",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(1999) *"Sisters Against the System", Cara Jepson (1999) *''Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man'', Susan Faludi (1999) *''The Australian Feminist Law Journal'' (1999–present) *"The
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
: An Introduction", Margaret "Peg" Strobel and Sue Davenport (1999)The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: An Introduction
*"The China Project, the Prison Project and the Issues of Class and Race", Marie "Micki" Leaner, Paula Kamen and the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, CWLU Herstory Committee (1999) *"The Day I Was Drugged and Raped",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1999) *"The Green Highway Theater Press Release [concerning the play Jane: Abortion and the Underground]", Paula Kamen (1999) *''The Whole Woman'',
Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literatu ...
(1999) *''Travail, Genre et Sociétés'' (1999–present) *"What Was the
Chicago Women's Liberation Union The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) was an American feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. The main goal of the organization was to end gender inequality and sexism, which the CWLU defined as "the sy ...
?", Becky Kluchin (1999)


21st century


2000s

*''Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics'', bell hooks (2000) *''Feminist Theory (journal), Feminist Theory'' (2000–present) *''Manifesta: Young women, Feminism and the Future'', Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (2000) *''Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(2000) *"Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Mystique of the Sheikh", Annie Laurie Gaylor (2000) *"The Color of Violence Against Women", Angela Davis (2000) *''The Frailty Myth'', Colette Dowling (2000) *''The World Split Open, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America'', Ruth Rosen (2000) *''Feminist Media Studies'' (2001–present) *"As a Feminist, This "Jane" Was Far from Plain", Chris Lombardi and Ruth Surgal (2002) *''Feminist Africa'' (2002–present) *"Feminist Judaism: Past and Future",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and conc ...
(2002) *''Fingersmith (novel), Fingersmith'', Sarah Waters (2002) *''Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(2002) *''Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women'',
Madhu Kishwar Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a commentator.
(2002) *''Stolen Sunshine, Stolen Sunshine: A Woman's Quest for Herself'', Smita Jhavar (2002) *"The Logic of Experience: Reflections on the Development of Sexual Harassment Law",
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(2002) *''Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self'', Susan J. Brison (2003) *''Gender Talk: The Struggle for Equality in African American Communities'', Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta B. Cole (2003) *"On Anniversary of Women's Suffrage, Equality Still Elusive", Annie Laurie Gaylor (2003) *''Sisterhood Is Forever, Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium'', edited by Robin Morgan (2003) *''The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust'', Melissa Raphael (2003) *"The Feminist Ghost at the Conservative Political Action Conference" (2003) *"Women's Peace Activism: Forward into the Past?",
Joreen Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties a ...
(2003) *''Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism'', Astrid Henry (2004) *''The Pornography of Meat'', Carol J. Adams (2004) *"Women in Saudi Arabia Too Have a Dream", Mody Al-Khalaf (2004) *''Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism'', Patricia Hill Collins (2005) *''Female Chauvinist Pigs, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture'', Ariel Levy (2005) *''Integrating Ecofeminism Globalization and World Religions'',
Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology. Her teaching and her writings helped est ...
(2005) *"Lust Horizons",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the Nation ...
(2005) *''Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography'', edited by Rebecca Whisnant and Christine Stark (2004) *''Tales from the Expat Harem, Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey'', edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen (2005) *''The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom'',
Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is a renowned second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of ...
(2005) *''The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women'', Susan J. Douglas with Meredith Michaels (2005) *''Women's Lives, Men's Laws'',
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(2005) *''Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big'',
Mary Daly Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
(2006) *''Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues'',
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, a ...
(2006) *''Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World'', Linda Hirshman (2006) *"Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)", Terry Martin Hekker (2006) *''The Dark Abode'', Sarojini Sahoo (2006) *"Understanding and Ending ECT: A Feminist Imperative", Bonnie Burstow (2006) *''Global Feminisms'', Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin (2007) *''Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters,'' Jessica Valenti (2007) *''Shakespeare's Wife,''
Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literatu ...
(2007) *''Tales from the Town of Widows'', James Cañón (2007) *''The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?'', Leslie Bennetts (2007) *''The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader'', edited by Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan (2007) *''The Terror Dream'', Susan Faludi (2007) *''Whipping Girl'', Julia Serano (2007) *"Women in Combat: Is the Current Policy Obsolete?" from ''Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy'', Martha McSally (2007) *"Against Sexual Apartheid", Maryam Namazie (2008) *''International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics'' (2008–present) *"Men Explain Things to Me", Rebecca Solnit (2008) *''Yes Means Yes'', Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (2008) *"Women Are Never Front-Runners",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in ...
(2008) *''Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws: Battling Stereotypes'',
Madhu Kishwar Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a commentator.
(2008) *''Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton'', Duchess Harris (2009) *''Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide'', Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2009) *"Paycheck Feminism", Karen Kornbluh and Rachel Homer (2009) *''The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World,'' Michelle Goldberg (2009) *''The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women'', Jessica Valenti (2009) *The Rio Declaration on Engaging Men and Boys on Achieving Gender Equality (2009) *"The Words of God Do Not Justify Cruelty To Women", Jimmy Carter (2009) *''Broken Women of the Mountains'', Nida Mahmoed (2009)


2010s

*''Big Girls Don't Cry (book), Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women,'' Rebecca Traister (2010) *''Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists'', edited by Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan (2010) *''Delusions of Gender, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference,'' Cordelia Fine (2010) *''Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work Is Done'', Susan J. Douglas (2010) *''No Excuses (book), No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power'', Gloria Feldt (2010) *''Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV,'' Jennifer L. Pozner (2010) *''Sensible Sensuality'', Sarojini Sahoo (2010) *''Beauty Queens'', Libba Bray (2011) *''Cinderella Ate My Daughter'', Peggy Orenstein (2011) *''How to Be a Woman'', Caitlin Moran (2011) *''philoSOPHIA'' (2011–present) *''Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice'', edited by Lisa A. Kemmerer (2011) *''A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing'',
Alix Kates Shulman Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Qu ...
(2012) *''Cinnamon'', Samar Yazbek (2012) *''Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self'', Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2014) *"1% Feminism", Linda Burnham (2013) *''I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban'', Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb (2013) *''Bad Feminist, Bad Feminist: Essays'', Roxane Gay (2014) *''Men Explain Things to Me'', Rebecca Solnit (2014) *''We Should All Be Feminists'', Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014) *''American Housewife: Stories'', Helen Ellis (2015) *''Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl'', Carrie Brownstein (2015) *''Neoliberalismo Sexual: El Mito de la Libre Elección'', Ana de Miguel (2015) *''Nimona'', ND Stevenson (2015) *''Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology'', edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2015) *''Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights'', edited by Ruth Barrett (2016) *''Kim Ji-young, Born 1982'' by Cho Nam Joo (2016) *''Sex Object: A Memoir'', Jessica Valenti (2016) *''Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman'', Lindy West (2016) *''The Geek Feminist Revolution'', Kameron Hurley (2016) *''Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why'', Jude Doyle, then called Sady Doyle (2016) *''Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade'', Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist (2016) *''Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership'', Shirley Lew and Baharak Yousefi (2017) *''The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness'', Jill Filipovic (2017) *''The Feminist Reference Desk'', Maria T. Accardi (2017) *''Nasty Women'', edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (2017) *''Women and Power: A Manifesto'', Mary Beard (classicist), Mary Beard (2017) *''The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy'', Cynthia Enloe (2018) *''Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger'', by Rebecca Traister (2018) *''Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power'', Jude Doyle (2019) *''New Daughters of Africa, New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent'', edited by Margaret Busby (2019) *''Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation'', Renate Klein (2019) *''Know My Name: A Memoir'', by Chanel Miller (2019)


2020s

* "Why We BDSM Practitioners Should Be Feminists", Lisa Martin (2021) * "Why We Polyamorists Should Be Feminists", Lisa Martin (2021)"Why We Polyamorists Should Be Feminists"
''Kink~E Magazine''.
*''Women and Work: The Sky Is Full of Sexism'', Rahul Kapoor (2021)


See also

* Feminist children's literature * Feminist science fiction * List of American feminist literature * List of early-modern British women novelists * List of early-modern British women playwrights * List of early-modern British women poets * List of female poets * List of feminist comic books * List of feminist poets * List of women rhetoricians * List of women writers * Women's writing (literary category)


References


Further reading

*
Feminist Theory and Criticism
" Accessed August 18, 2005.
Nineteenth-Century American Suffragists in the News
(1800s)
The Woman's Advocate
(1800s)
Complete Works of Camilla Collett, Norwegian feminist
(in Norwegian)

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150911231230/http://www.cwluherstory.org/cwlu-news-1970.html 1970: CWLU News 1970] {{DEFAULTSORT:Feminist Literature, List Of Feminist books, * Literature lists Feminism-related lists, Literature, List of feminist