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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 compo ...
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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 t ...
'', Christine de Pisan () *''The Tale of Joan of Arc'', Christine de Pisan (1429) *"
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

* '' Orlando Furioso'' Canto 37, Ludovico Ariosto (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 dre ...
(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 (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 (1583) * ''Le Promenoir de M. de Montaigne qui traite de l'amour dans l'œuvre de Plutarque'', Marie le Jars de Gournay (1584) * ''Her Protection for Women'', Jane Anger (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 posthumously ...
(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 Oro ...
(1600s) * ''The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men'' Lucrezia Marinella (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 (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 (1617) *'' Swetnam the Woman-Hater'', Anonymous (1620) * ''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', Marie Le Jars de Gournay (1622), translated into English as ''The Equality of Men and Women'' * ''Grief des dames'', Marie Le Jars de Gournay (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 m ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 Mada ...
'', 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, Jenni ...
(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, Jenni ...
(1697) * ''The Adventure of the Black Lady'', Aphra Behn (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, Jenni ...
(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 (1719) * ''The Emulation'', Sarah Fyge (1719) *''The Woman's Labour'', Mary Collier (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 ...
'', Charlotte Lennox (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 marri ...
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John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...
(1776) *''Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms'', Judith Sargent Murray (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 (1790) *" On the Equality of the Sexes", Judith Sargent Murray, 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 philosop ...
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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, femin ...
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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 ...
(1798)


19th century


1810s–1820s

* '' Pride and Prejudice'', Jane Austen (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 Emma Willard 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 Ind ...
(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 (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 abolitionist. She was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and from 1839 until 1842, she served as editor of the anti-slavery jour ...
(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 race relations within much of her published material.Michael R. Hill (2002''Harriet Martineau: Theoretic ...
(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 race relations within much of her published material.Michael R. Hill (2002''Harriet Martineau: Theoretic ...
(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 (1845) *"The Rights and Condition of Women", Samuel May (1845) *'' Woman in the Nineteenth Century'',
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 ...
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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 ...
(1847) *'' Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter'', 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 (1848) *''
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 phe ...
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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 (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 associat ...
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1850s

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The Scarlet Letter ''The Scarlet Letter: A Romance'' is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, ...
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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 ...
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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 (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 mor ...
(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 belie ...
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Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, i ...
(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 Ameri ...
(1852) *'' Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung,'' 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 (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 foun ...
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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 ...
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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, N ...
(1853). *"A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women", Barbara Bodichon (1854) *"Address to the Legislature of New York", Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1854) *"English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century", Caroline Norton (1854) *"A Letter to the Queen On Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill", Caroline Norton (1855) *''Marriage of Lucy Stone Under Protest'', Lucy Stone, 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 (1855) *''Hertha'',
Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finland, Finnish-born Sweden and Norway, Swedish Swedish literature, writer and feminism in Sweden, feminist reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Bri ...
(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 abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His r ...
, 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, M.D., Late of Berlin, Prussia", edited by Caroline H. Dall (1860) *''A Slave's Appeal'', Elizabeth Cady Stanton (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 ...
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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 ...
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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 int ...
(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 resu ...
'', Louisa May Alcott (1866) *"Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women Considered", Barbara Bodichon (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 Coll ...
(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 (1867) *'' Little Women'', Louisa May Alcott (1868) *"The Destructive Male", Elizabeth Cady Stanton (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 (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 (1869)


1870s

*"About Marrying Too Young" from '' The Revolution'', Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1870) *"Are Women A Class?", Lillie Blake (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 (1871) *"Letters to and from Polly Plum", Polly Plum (pen name of Mary Ann Colclough) (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 Ameri ...
(1871) *"Put Us In Your Place" from '' The Revolution'', Lillie Blake (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 (1872) *''The Adventures of a Woman in Search of her Rights'', Florence Claxton (1872) *''Marta'' (
Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
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 (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 s ...
, 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 be ...
'', Henrik Ibsen (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 portr ...
'', 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 (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, 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. It deal ...
(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 (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 (1884) *'' The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State'',
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from the ''North American Review'' (1885) *''Men, Women, And Gods, And Other Lectures'', Helen H. Gardener (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 c ...
'', Henry James (1886) * ''Cathy the Caryatid'' ( pl, Kaśka Kariatyda), a novel by Gabriela Zapolska (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 numer ...
and Eleanor Marx Aveling (1886) *''Misogyny in Excelsis'', Annie Besant (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 ...
(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 ...
'',
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 Dai ...
(1889) * ''The Administratrix'', Emma Ghent Curtis (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 mi ...
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 as well as the domination of religion over sexuality and women's li ...
(1890) * '' Le Droit des femmes'', meaning ''Women's Rights'' (1869 to 1891) *''A Doll's House Repaired'', Eleanor Marx Aveling (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 ...
'',
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 slaver ...
(1892) *"Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association" (1892) *''Solitude of Self'', Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1892) * " The Yellow Wallpaper",
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 w ...
(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 '' ...
'' (
Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
: ''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 li ...
(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) Meri ( h ...
(1893) *"The Progress of Fifty Years", Lucy Stone (1893) * '' Unveiling a Parallel'', 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 Ameri ...
(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 slaver ...
(1893) * "Common Sense" Applied to Women's Suffrage, Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (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 ...
",
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 femini ...
(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 (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 (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 H ...
, 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 H ...
(1897) *''Eighty Years and More'', Elizabeth Cady Stanton (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 femini ...
(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 (1898) *'' Women and Economics'',
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 w ...
(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 femini ...
(1899)


20th century


1900s

*"Are Homogenous Divorce Laws in All the States Desirable?" from the ''North American Review'', Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1900) *"Inspired" Marriage, Robert Ingersoll (1900) *"Progress of the American Woman" from the ''North American Review'', Elizabeth Cady Stanton (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 (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 (1904) *" Sultana's Dream" from ''The Indian Ladies Magazine'', Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (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 (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",
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 w ...
(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 w ...
(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 socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five times the candidate of the Soc ...
(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 (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 w ...
(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 w ...
(1911) *"The Hypocrisy of Puritanism", Emma Goldman (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 (1911) *"The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation", Emma Goldman (1911) *''Woman and Labor'',
Olive Schreiner Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, 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. It deal ...
(1911) * '' Pygmalion'',
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 (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 *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 w ...
(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 (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 ...
(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 (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 w ...
(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 (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 sixt ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(1919) *''Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America'', Victor Robinson (1919) * '' The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal?'', Beatrice Webb (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. Biog ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(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 cha ...
(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 h ...
(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. App ...
'', Edith Wharton (1920) *''Woman and the New Race'', Margaret Sanger (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 Marxist the ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(1921) *''The Morality of Birth Control'', Margaret Sanger (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 Marxist the ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(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 Marxist the ...
(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 ...
'',
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 (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 ...
'',
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 liter ...
(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'', was made into a successful movie. Though she claimed she was not a "real" myste ...
(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 ...
(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 histor ...
'' (French: ''Le Deuxième Sexe''), Simone de Beauvoir (1949)


1950s

* "Women as a Minority Group", Helen Mayer Hacker (1951) *''The Matriarchal-Brotherhood: Sex and Labor in Primitive Society'', Evelyn Reed (1954) *''The Myth of Women's Inferiority'', Evelyn Reed (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 (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 (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 in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(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 in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(1963) *"Equality Between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal", Alice S. Rossi (1963) *"On the Publication of the Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir (1963) *''The Bell Jar'', Sylvia Plath (1963) * ''The Feminine Mystique'', Betty Friedan (1963) *"A Study of the Feminine Mystique", Evelyn Reed (1964) *Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the Movement (1964) *"Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII", Mary Eastwood and Pauli Murray (1965) *"Sex and Caste - A Kind of Memo", Casey Hayden and Mary King (political scientist), Mary King (1965) *''Up Your Ass'', Valerie Solanas (1965) *''Child'', Andrea Dworkin (1966) *"Free Woman" from the ''San Francisco Express Times'', Heather Dean (1966) *The National Organization for Women's 1966 Statement of Purpose, Betty Friedan (1966) *"What Concrete Steps Can Be Taken to Further the Homophile Movement", Shirley Willer (1966) *"Woman's Place: Silence or Service?", Letha Scanzoni (1966) (original manuscript, possibly not as published in 1966) *"Women: The Longest Revolution", Juliet Mitchell (1966) *''De Schaamte Voorbij'', Anja Meulenbelt (1967), translated into English as ''The Shame is Over'' *''Diary of a Mad Housewife'', Sue Kaufman (1967) * "Het onbehagen bij de vrouw", Joke Smit, 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 (1967) *"To the Women of the Left" (1967) *"Abortion Rally Speech", Anne Koedt (1968) *"A Letter to the Editor of ''Ramparts Magazine''", 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 (1968) (original manuscript, not as published in 1968) *"Funeral Oration for the Burial of Traditional Womanhood", Kathie Sarachild, Kathie Amatniek (1968) *"Letter to the Editor in Response to a ''Guardian'' Article", Ellen Willis (1968) *''Morning Hair'', Andrea Dworkin (1968) *National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) Bill of Rights (1968) *''No More Fun and Games: A Journal of Female Liberation'' (1968) *"No More Miss America!" (press release for Redstockings), Robin Morgan (1968) *''Notes From the First Year'', New York Radical Women (1968) *"Psychology Constructs the Female", Naomi Weisstein (1968) *"Principles", New York Radical Women (1968) * ''SCUM Manifesto'', Valerie Solanas (1968) *''Sexual Politics'', Kate Millett (1968) *''The Church and the Second Sex'', Mary Daly (1968) *"The Jeannette Rankin, Jeanette Rankin Brigade: Woman Power? A Summary of Our Involvement", Shulamith Firestone (1968) *"The Lesbian's Other Identity", Del Martin (1968) *"The Women's Liberation Front" from ''Moderator'', Joreen (1968) *"The Women's Rights Movement in the US: A New View", Shulamith Firestone (1968) *"Towards a Radical Movement", Heather Booth, Evie Goldfield, and Sue Munaker (1968) *"Understanding Orgasm" from ''Ramparts'', Susan Lydon (1968) *''Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement'' [newsletter] (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 in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(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 in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(1969) *"A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women", Patricia Haden, Donna Middleton, and Patricia Robinson (1969–1970) *"A Marriage Agreement", Alix Kates Shulman (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 (1969) *''Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female'', Frances Beal (1969) *"Equal Rights for Women", Shirley Chisholm (1969) *"Females and Welfare", Betsy Warrior (1969) *"Founding Editorial" from ''Women: A Journal of Liberation'' (1969) *"Freedom for Movement Girls - Now", Sheldon Vanauken, vanauken (1969) *''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'', Maya Angelou (1969) *"Lesbianism and Feminism", Wilda Chase (1969) * ''Les Guérillères'', Monique Wittig (1969) *"Politics of the Ego: A Manifesto", New York Radical Feminists (1969) *Proposed Statement of Political Principles (1969) *"Radical Feminism and Love", Ti-Grace Atkinson (1969) *"Redstockings Manifesto" (1969) *"Sweet 16 to Saggy 36: Saga of American Womanhood", Cleveland Radical Women's Group (1969) *"The First Press Coverage of the Redstockings" from ''Scenes'' (1969) *"The Grand Coolie Damn", Marge Piercy (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 (1969) * "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation", Margaret Benston (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 (1969)


1970s

*"A Monologue by Naomi Weisstein" (1970s) *"A Proposal for Community Work", Vivian Rothstein and Mary M. (1970s) *''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'', P.D. James, (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 (1970) *"Black Woman's Manifesto", Third World Women's Alliance (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 lyrics (1970s) *"Erosu Kaihō Sengen", in English "Liberation from Eros," Mitsu Tanaka (1970) *"For the Equal Rights Amendment", Shirley Chisholm (1970) *"Goodbye to All That" from ''Rat'', Robin Morgan (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 (1970) *"Institutional Discrimination", Joreen (1970) *"Is Man an 'Aggressive Ape?'", Evelyn Reed (1970) *"Judge Carswell And The 'Sex Plus' Doctrine", Betty Friedan (1970) *''Notes From The Second Year: Women's Liberation'', New York Radical Women (1970) * ''off our backs'' (1970–present) *"Poor White Women", Roxanne Dunbar (1970) * ''Sexual Politics'', Kate Millett (1970) * ''Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement'', edited by Robin Morgan (1970) *"Take a Good Look at Our Problems", Pamela Newman (1970) *"The BITCH Manifesto", Jo Freeman (1970) *"The Building of the Gilded Cage" from ''The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism'', Joreen (1970) * ''The Dialectic of Sex, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution'', Shulamith Firestone (1970) * ''The Female Eunuch'', Germaine Greer (1970) *''The Liberation of Black Women'', Pauli Murray (1970) *"The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", Anne Koedt (1970) *"The Politics of Housework", Patricia Mainardi, Pat Mainardi of Redstockings (1970) *"The Revolution is Happening in Our Minds" from ''Revolution II: Thinking Female'', Joreen (1970) *"The Role of Government Agencies in Gaining Equal Rights for Women", DARE (1970) *"The Unfreedom of Jewish Women", Trude Weiss-Rosmarin (1970) *"The Woman-Identified Woman, The Woman Identified Woman", Radicalesbians (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 Party (1970) *''What Is a Woman?'', Norma Allen (1970) *"What Is Women's Liberation?", Marilyn Salzman Webb, from WIN (1970) *"What It Would Be Like If Women Win",
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(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 (1970) *"Why Women's Liberation is Important to Black Women", Maxine Williams (1970) *"Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life", Meredith Tax (1970) *"Women: Caste, Class, or Oppressed Sex", Evelyn Reed (1970) *"Women on the Social Science Faculties since 1892 (at the University of Chicago)", Joreen (1970) *"'Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men Too" from the *''Women's Report'', British bi-monthly newspaper (1972–79) *''Washington Post'',
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(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 (1970) *"Abortions", Gloria Colon, Ministry of Education, Central Headquarters Young Lords Party (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 (Fall 1971) *"After the Death of God the Father" from ''Commonweal'', Mary Daly (1971) *"Analysis of Chicago Women's Liberation School", Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1971) *"And Jill Came Tumbling After" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"An End to Separate and Unequal", Trude Weiss-Rosmarin (1971)An End to Separate and Unequal
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*"A Statement About Female Liberation" (1971) *"Bogeymen and Bogeywomen", Judy from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Can Women Love Women?" (interview by Anne Koedt, 1971) *"Desexing the Language", Casey Miller and Kate Swift (1971) *"Down With Sexist Upbringing!", Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1971) *"Equal Only When Obligated", Deborah Miller (1971) *"Feminism and 'The Female Eunuch'", Evelyn Reed (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" (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, 1971) *"Is Biology Woman's Destiny?", Evelyn Reed (1971) *"Manifeste des 343 Salopes", Simone de Beauvoir, from ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' (1971), translated into English as the "Manifesto of the 343, Manifesto of the 343 Sluts" *"Lemme Tell Ya About Being a Woman Lawyer...", Susan from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Lesbianism and Feminism", Anne Koedt (1971) *"Masters of War" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Mr. Smith, Take A Memo: I've Got Some Things to Tell You" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *''Ms. (magazine), Ms.'' (1971–present) *"New York Radical Feminists Manifesto of Shared Rape" (1971) *"No Lady" from ''Black Maria'' (1971) *Notes for the (future Furies Collective) Cell Meeting (1971) *''Notes From The Third Year: Women's Liberation'', New York Radical 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 (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 (1971) *"Statement by Elma Barrera" (1971) * ''The First Sex'', Elizabeth Gould Davis (1971) *"The Housewife's Moment of Truth", Jane O'Reilly (1971) *"The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman", Rachel Adler (1971) *"The Lesbian Newsletter", Daughters of Bilitis (1971) *"The Politics of Sterilization", Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1971) *"The Social Construction of the Second Sex" from ''Roles Women Play: Readings Towards Women's Liberation'', Joreen (1971) *"The Vagina on Trial", Kathleen Barry (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 (1971) *"Why Women's Liberation?" from ''Black Maria'' (1971) *"Woman as Patient", Laura Green and Womankind (1971) * ''Woman's Estate'', Juliet Mitchell (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 (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 (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" from ''Women: A Journal of Liberation'', Naomi Weisstein and Vivian Rothstein (1972) *"Cleaning Up", Mary Blake from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Covert Sex Discrimination Against Women as Medical Patients", Carol Downer (1972) *"DARE Challenges City Hall Budget" (1972) *"Don't Think", from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women [in the Navy]", Admiral Zumwalt (1972) *"Family Relations Court", Alice from ''Womankind'' (1972) *''Feminist Studies'' (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 (1972) *"I Want a Wife" from ''Ms.'', Judy Syfers (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 (1972) *''Lesbian/Woman'', Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (1972) *''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen'', Alix Kates Shulman (1972) *"National Organization for Women, NOW Press Release on City Hall Gender Discrimination" (1972) *"On Being a Waitress", Carolyn (1972) *"One Small Step for Genkind", Casey Miller and Kate Swift (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 (1972) *"Soldiers in the Streets" from ''Womankind'' (1972) *''Surfacing (novel), Surfacing'', Margaret Atwood (1972) *"That Old Problem - Sex" from ''Womankind'', Lorna (1972) *''The Coming of Lilith'', Judith Plaskow (1972) *"The DARE Janitress Campaign" from ''Womankind'' (1972) * "The Emancipation of Man", Olof Palme (1972) *"The Fear of Childbirth is a PAIN", from ''Womankind'' (1972) *''The Feminist Art Journal'' (1972-1977) *"The Feminization of Society", Yoko Ono (1972) *"The Lesbian and God-the-Father, or, All the Church Needs Is a Good Lay . . . On Its Side", Sally Miller Gearhart (1972) *"The Tyranny of Structurelessness", Joreen (1972) *"Tum'ah and Toharah: Ends and Beginnings", Rachel Adler (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, published in ''Ms.'' (1972) *"We Look At Ms.", Sue (1972) *"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision", Adrienne Rich (1972) *''Women and Madness'', Phyllis Chesler (1972) * "Women in a Socialist Society", Women's Union, Young Lords Party (1972) *''Women of La Raza Unite!'' (1972) *''Women's Studies Quarterly'' (1972–present) *"Abortion Task Force: Who We Are" from ''Womankind'' (1973) *''Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation'', Mary Daly (1973) *''Fear of Flying (novel), Fear of Flying'', Erica Jong (1973) *''Lesbian Nation, Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution'', Jill Johnston (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'', The Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1973) *"Posters that Express the Reality of Being a Woman", Linda Winer (1973) *"Rape (poem), Rape", Adrienne Rich (1973) *"So Who Needs Daycare?" from ''Womankind'', Mary M. (1973) * ''The Furies'', The Furies Collective (January 1972 until mid-1973) *"The Jane Song", Elizabeth Roberts (1973) *"The National Black Feminist Organization's Statement of Purpose" (1973) *"The Status of Women in Halakhic Judaism", Saul Berman (1973) *"The Verbal Karate of Florynce Kennedy, Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq.",
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(1973) *"The Women Men Don't See", James Tiptree, Jr. (pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon) (1973) *"Vacuum Aspiration Abortion", Health Organizing Collective of Women's Health and Abortion Project (1973) *"When I Was Growing Up", Nellie Wong (1973) *''Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers'', Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English (1973) *"Abortion--the Need to Change Jewish Law", Rachel Adler (1974) *"A Young Woman's Death: Would Health Rights Have Prevented It?", Helen Rodriquez-Trias (1974) *"Feminism, a Cause for the Halachic", Rachel Adler (1974) *"Feminism, Art, and My Mother Sylvia", Andrea Dworkin (1974) *"In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South", from ''Ms.'', Alice Walker (1974) *"Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?", Sherry Ortner (1974) *"Marxism, Mariategui and the Women's Movement", Catalina Adrianzen (1974) *"Mother Right: A New Feminist Theory", Jane Alpert (1974) *''Speculum of the Other Woman'', Luce Irigaray (1974) *"What Educated Women Can Do", Indira Gandhi (1974) *''Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality'', Andrea Dworkin (1974) *"A Black Feminist's Search For Sisterhood", Michele Wallace (1975) *''Abortion is a Blessing'', Anne Nicol Gaylor (1975) * ''Against Our Will'', Susan Brownmiller (1975) *"DAR II (Dykes for the Second American Revolution)" (1975) *"Feminist Economic Alliance Formed to Aid New Sister Credit Unions" (1975) *''Hecate (journal), Hecate'' (1975–present) *"How to Discriminate Against Women Without Really Trying" from ''Women: A Feminist Perspective'', Joreen (1975) *''Judaism and the New Woman'', Sally Priesand (1975) *"Lesbian Group [1975 Conference Report]" (1975) *"Lesbian Pride", Andrea Dworkin (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'', Joanna Russ (1975) *"The Legal Bias Against Rape Victims (The Rape of Mr. Smith)," Connie K. Borkenhagen (1975) *"The Root Cause", Andrea Dworkin (1975) * "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex," Gayle Rubin (1975) * "Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness," Sandra Bartky (1975) * "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," Laura Mulvey (1975) * ''Wages Against Housework'', Silvia Federici (1975) *"What is Women's Liberation?", Secret Storm (1975) *"What Medical Students Learn", Kay Weiss (1975) *''Woman's Evolution, Woman's Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family'', Evelyn Reed (1975) *"You Are Where You Eat", Laura Shapiro (1975) *"A Feminist Tarot", Sally Miller Gearhart and Susan Rennie (1976) * ''Al-Raida'' (1976–present) * ''Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman'', Michele Wallace (1976) *''Blazing Star'' Vol. 2 No. 1 (July 1976) *''Blazing Star'' Vol. 2 No. 3 (October 1976) *''Camera Obscura (journal), Camera Obscura'' (1976–present) *"Female God Language in a Jewish Context", Rita Gross (1976) *"Feminism: Is it Good for the Jews?", Blu Greenberg (1976) *"Is the Women's Movement in Trouble?" from Working Papers on Socialism & Feminism, Roberta Lynch (1976) * ''Kinflicks'', Lisa Alther (1976) *"Learning From Lesbian Separatism", Charlotte Bunch (1976) * ''Literary Women'', Ellen Moers (1976) * ''Lover (novel), Lover'', Bertha Harris (1976) * ''Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution'', Adrienne Rich (1976) *"Medical Crimes Against Women", Jenny Knauss, Janet M., Kathy Mallin, Lauren Crawford and Sharon M. (1976) *''Meridian (novel), Meridian'', Alice Walker (1976) *''Our blood: prophecies and discourses on sexual politics'', Andrea Dworkin (1976) *"The Laugh of the Medusa", Hélène Cixous (1976) * ''The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangement and Human Malaise'', Dorothy Dinnerstein (1976) *"What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity", Elaine H. Pagels (1976) *"What is Socialist Feminism?", Barbara Ehrenreich (1976) *''When God Was a Woman'', Merlin Stone (1976) *''Woman on the Edge of Time'', Marge Piercy (1976) *''Women, Money and Power'', Phyllis Chesler 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, Kate Swift (1976) *"A Black Feminist Statement", Combahee River Collective (1977) *"Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea", Andrea Dworkin (1977) *"Claiming an Education", Adrienne Rich (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 (1977) *''Egalias døtre'' (in English ''Egalia's Daughters''), by Gerd Brantenberg (1977) *"Left-Wing Anti-Feminism: A Revisionist Disorder", Marlene Dixon (1977) *"Marx and Gandhi were Liberals: Feminism and the 'Radical' Left", Andrea Dworkin (1977) *"Monopoly Capitalism and the Women's Movement", Marlene Dixon (1977) *"On the Super-Exploitation of Women", Marlene Dixon (1977) *"Pornography: The New Terrorism" Andrea Dworkin (1977) *''Sex Bias in the U.S. Code'', United States Commission on Civil Rights (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 (1977) *"The Simple Story of a Lesbian Girlhood", Andrea Dworkin (1977) *"The Sisterhood Rip-Off: The Destruction of the Left in the Professional Women's Caucuses", Marlene Dixon (1977) *"The Subjugation of Women Under Capitalism: The Bourgeois Morality", Marlene Dixon (1977) *''The Women's Room'', Marilyn French (1977) *''This Sex Which Is Not One'', Luce Irigaray (1977) *"Wages for Housework and Strategies of Revolutionary Fantasy", Marlene Dixon (1977) *''Who really starves?: Women and world hunger'', Lisa Leghorn and Mary Roodkowsky (1977) *''Women's Studies in Communication'' (1977–present) *"A Feminist Looks at Saudi Arabia", Andrea Dworkin (1978) *"Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture", Valerie Jaudon and Joyce Kozloff (1978) *''Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism'', collection of essays anthologized by Zillah R. Eisenstein (1978) *"Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon", Kathie Sarachild (1978) *''
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on Women and Revolution'', edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook (1978) *"Fat is A Feminist Issue", Susie Orbach (1978) *"Full Employment: Toward Economic Equality For Women", Joreen (1978) *''Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism'', Mary Daly (1978) *"On the National Black Feminist Organization", Michele Wallace (1978) *"The New Woman's Broken Heart", Andrea Dworkin (1978) *''The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography'', Angela Carter (1978) *"The Wander-ground", Sally Miller Gearhart (1978) *"Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power", Audre Lorde (1978) *"Why So-called Radical Men Love and Need Pornography", Andrea Dworkin (1978) *"Why Women Need the Goddess", Carol P. Christ (1978) *''X: A Fabulous Child's Story'', Lois Gould (1978) *"Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life", Ellen Willis (1979) *"Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet" from ''Newsday'', Susan Brownmiller (1979) *''On Lies, Secrets and Silence'', Adrienne Rich (1979) *''Opera: The Undoing of Women'', Catherine Clément (1979) *''Sexual harassment of working women: a case of sex discrimination'', Catharine MacKinnon (1979) * ''The Bloody Chamber'', Angela Carter (1979) *"The Double Standard of Aging", Susan Sontag (1979) *"The Lie", Andrea Dworkin (1979) * ''The Madwoman in the Attic'', Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar (1979) *"The Night and Danger", Andrea Dworkin (1979) *''The Transsexual Empire'', Janice Raymond (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 (1979) *''Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion'' edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (1979) * ''Women and Household Labor'', Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, ed. (1979)


1980s

*"A Woman Writer and Pornography", Andrea Dworkin (1980) *"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence", Adrienne Rich (1980) *''Man Made Language'', Dale Spender (1980) *''The Sceptical Feminist: A Philosophical Enquiry'', Janet Radcliffe Richards (1980) *''The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing'', Casey Miller and Kate Swift (1980) *''The New Woman's Broken Heart: Short Stories'', Andrea Dworkin (1980) *"True Liberation of Women", Indira Gandhi (1980) *"What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work", Dolores Hayden *"Women and Urban Policy", Joreen (1980) * ''Ain't I a Woman? (book), Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism'', bell hooks (1981) *"Nature's Revenge", Ellen Willis (1981) *"Pornography and Male Supremacy", Andrea Dworkin (1981) *''Pornography: Men Possessing Women'', Andrea Dworkin (1981) *"Pornography's Part in Sexual Violence", Andrea Dworkin (1981) *"The ACLU: Bait and Switch", Andrea Dworkin (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 (1981) *"Why Pornography Matters to Feminists", Andrea Dworkin (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, 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'' (; 1982–present) *''Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy'' (1982–present) *''In a Different Voice, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development'', Carol Gilligan (1982) *''Invisible Women: The Schooling Scandal'', Dale Spender (1982) *''Powers of Horror'', Julia Kristeva (1982) *''The Anatomy of Freedom'', Robin Morgan (1982) *''The Color Purple'', 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, ed. (1983) *''For Love or Money, a Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia (1983), For Love or Money, a Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia'', Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley (1983) *''Home Girls'', various authors (1983) * ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'', 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 (1983) * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'',
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(1983) * ''Right Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females'', Andrea Dworkin (1983) * ''Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology'', Rosemary Radford Ruether (1983) * ''The Politics of Reality, 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 (1983) * "Whose Press? Whose Freedom?", Andrea Dworkin (1983) * "Comparable Worth" from ''In These Times'', Joreen (1984) * "Female Rabbis, Male Fears", Chaim Sedler-Feller (1984) * ''In Search of Answers: Indian Women's Voices'', Madhu Kishwar and Ruth Vanita * ''Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center'', bell hooks (1984) * "I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There is No Rape", Andrea Dworkin (1984) * ''Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy'', Mary Daly (1984) * ''Sisterhood Is Global, Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology'', edited by Robin Morgan (1984) * ''Sister Outsider'', Audre Lorde (1984) *''The Man of Reason, 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 (1984) *"Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography and Equality", Andrea Dworkin (1985) *"A Person Paper on Purity in Language", William Satire (pen name of Douglas Richard Hofstadter) (1985) * ''Australian Feminist Studies'' (1985–present) * ''Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals'', Marilyn French (1985) * "Breaking With Invisibility", Cady (1985) * ''For the Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge'', Dale Spender (1985) * "Loving Books: Male/Female/Feminist" from ''Hot Wire'', Andrea Dworkin (1985) * ''Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays'', Joanna Russ (1985) * "Shifting Horizons", Lynn Beaton (1985) * ''The Handmaid's Tale'', Margaret Atwood (1985) * ''The Reasons Why: Essays on the New Civil Rights Law Recognizing Pornography as Sex Discrimination'', Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon (1985) * ''Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Select Prose (1979–1985)'', Adrienne Rich (1986) *''Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World'', Kumari Jayawardena (1986) * ''Feminist Studies, Critical Studies'', Teresa de Lauretis (1986) *"Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis", Joan Wallach Scott (1986) *''Ice and Fire'', Andrea Dworkin (1986) *"If Men Could Menstruate" from ''Ms.'',
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(1986) *"Letter from a War Zone", Andrea Dworkin (1986) *''Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody'', Phyllis Chesler (1986) *''Agenda (feminist journal), Agenda'' (1987–present) * ''Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza'', Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) * ''Feminism Unmodified, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law'', Catharine MacKinnon (1987) * ''Intercourse (book), Intercourse'', Andrea Dworkin (1987) *''Landscape for a Good Woman'', 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 (1987) *''Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language, Conjured in Cahoots with Jane Caputi'', Mary Daly, Jane Caputi and Sudie Rakusin (1987) *"Who You Know Versus Who You Represent: Feminist Influence in the Democratic and Republican Parties", Joreen (1987) *''Feminism and Anthropology'', Henrietta Moore (1988) *Feminist Activities at the 1988 Republican Convention, Joreen (1988) *''Feminist Formations'' (1988–present) *''Feminist Literary History'', Janet Todd (1988) *"Handle With Care: We Need a Child-Rearing Movement", Ellen Willis (1988) *''If Women Counted, If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics'', Marilyn Waring (1988) * ''Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value'', Sarah Lucia Hoagland (1988) *''Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality'', Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon (1988) *"Social Revolution and the Equal Rights Amendment", Joreen (1988) *''The Heidi Chronicles'', Wendy Wasserstein (1988) *"Women at the 1988 Democratic Convention", Joreen (1988) *''The Women's History of the World'', Rosalind Miles (1989) *''A Vindication of The Rights of Whores'', edited by Gail Pheterson (1989) *''Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics'', Cynthia Enloe (1989) *''Dancing at the Edge of the World'', Ursula K. Le Guin (1989) *''Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies'' (1989–present) *''Gender Trouble, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'', Judith Butler (1989) *''Letters from a War Zone: Writings, 1976–1989'', Andrea Dworkin (1989) *''Makaan'', Paigham Afaqui (1989) *"Men, Women and Biblical Equality", Christians for Biblical Equality (1989) *"More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing", Amartya Sen (1989) * "Presenting...Sister No Blues", Hattie Gossett (1989) * "Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: 'Pleasure Under Patriarchy'", Catharine MacKinnon (1989) *''The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home'', Arlie Russell Hochschild and Anne Machung (1989) * ''The Temple of My Familiar'', 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 (1989) * ''Toward a Feminist Theory of the State'', Catharine MacKinnon (1989) * "What Battery Really Is", Andrea Dworkin (1989) * ''Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality'', edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (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 (1990) *"God Is a Woman and She Is Growing Older", Margaret Wenig (1990) *''Journal of Women, Politics & Policy'' (1990–present) *''Mercy'', Andrea Dworkin (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 (1990) *"Will There Be Orthodox Women Rabbis?", Blu Greenberg (1990) *"A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives", Lenore Blum (1991) *"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century", Donna Haraway (1991) *''Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'', Susan Faludi (1991) *''Dirty Weekend (novel), Dirty Weekend'', Helen Zahavi (1991) *''Feminism & Psychology'' (1991–present) *"How 'Sex' Got Into Title VII: Persistent Opportunism as a Maker of Public Policy", Joreen (1991) *"Justice Is a Woman with a Sword", D. A. Clarke (1991) *"Riot Grrrl Manifesto" from Bikini Kill Zine 2, Kathleen Hanna (1991) *''Sexo y filosofía: sobre "mujer" y "poder"'', Amelia Valcárcel (1991) *''Sexual/Textual Politics'', Toril Moi (1991) *''Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective'', Judith Plaskow (1991) *"Terror, Torture, and Resistance", Andrea Dworkin (1991) *''The Beauty Myth'', Naomi Wolf (1991) *"The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles", Emily Martin (anthropologist), Emily Martin (1991) *"We Learned the Wrong Lessons in Vietnam: A Feminist Issue Still", Kate Millett, Robin Morgan,
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and Ti-Grace Atkinson (1991) *"With No Immediate Cause", Ntozake Shange (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 (1992) *''Possessing the Secret of Joy'', Alice Walker (1992) *"Power, Resistance and Science", Naomi Weisstein (1992) *"Prostitution and Male Supremacy", Andrea Dworkin (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 in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(1992) *"Talking Our Way In", Rachel Adler (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (1995) *"On the Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a Strictly Personal Perspective", Joreen (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 with Marjorie Agosin, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ritu Menon, Ninotchka Rosca, and Mariella Sala (1995) *"The Revolution for Women in Law and Public Policy", Joreen (1995) *"The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal Behavior", Nancy Henley and Joreen (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 (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 (1996) *"Days of Celebration and Resistance: The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973", Naomi Weisstein (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 (1996) *"Waves of Feminism", Joreen (1996) *"We've Come a Long Way...?", Joreen (1996) *"Whatever Happened to Republican Feminists?", Joreen (1996) *"What's In a Name? Does It Matter How the Equal Rights Amendment is Worded?", Joreen (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 (1997) *''In Harm's Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings'', Catharine MacKinnon (1997) *''Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War against Women'', Andrea Dworkin (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 (1997) *"Remarks on Naomi Weisstein", Jesse Lemisch and Naomi Weisstein (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 (1998) *''Letters to a Young Feminist'', Phyllis Chesler (1998) *"Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism", Martha E. Gimenez (1998) *"Mother Wit", Ellen Willis (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 (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 (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 (1999) *"Are You Listening, Hillary? President Rape Is Who He Is", Andrea Dworkin (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 (1999) *"Feminism, Moralism, and That Woman", Ellen Willis (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)", Jennifer Scanlon (1999) *"Monica and Barbara and Primal Concerns", Ellen Willis (1999) *"Our Gang of Four: Friendships and Women's Liberation", Amy Kesselman with Heather Booth, Vivian Rothstein, and Naomi Weisstein (1999) *"Penis Passion", bell hooks (1999) *''Pratibandi'', Sarojini Sahoo (1999) *"Sex, Race, Religion, and Partisan Alignment", Joreen (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: 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 (1999) *"The Green Highway Theater Press Release [concerning the play Jane: Abortion and the Underground]", Paula Kamen (1999) *''The Whole Woman'', Germaine Greer (1999) *''Travail, Genre et Sociétés'' (1999–present) *"What Was the Chicago Women's Liberation Union?", 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 (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 (2002) *''Fingersmith (novel), Fingersmith'', Sarah Waters (2002) *''Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant'', Andrea Dworkin (2002) *''Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women'', Madhu Kishwar (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 (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 (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 (2005) *"Lust Horizons", Ellen Willis (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 (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 (2005) *''Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big'', Mary Daly (2006) *''Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues'', Catharine MacKinnon (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 (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",
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(2008) *''Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws: Battling Stereotypes'', Madhu Kishwar (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 (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)

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