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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. ...
'', Giovanni Boccaccio (1361–62)


15th century

*'' The Book of the City of Ladies'', Christine de Pisan () *'' The Treasure of the City of Ladies'', Christine de Pisan () *''The Tale of Joan of Arc'',
Christine de Pisan Christine de Pizan or Pisan (), born Cristina da Pizzano (September 1364 – c. 1430), was an Italian poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French dukes. Christine de Pizan served as a court writer in medieval France ...
(1429) *" The Wife of Bath's Tale", Geoffrey Chaucer


16th century

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Orlando Furioso ''Orlando furioso'' (; ''The Frenzy of Orlando'', more loosely ''Raging Roland'') is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was ...
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Ludovico Ariosto Ludovico Ariosto (; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic ''Orlando Furioso'' (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'', describes the ...
(1516-1532) * ''The Superior Excellence of Women Over Men'',
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; ; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's '' Three Books of Occult Philosophy'' published in 1533 dre ...
(1529) * ''The Defense of Good Women'', Thomas Elyot (1545) * ''La Nobiltà delle Donne'', The Nobility of Women
Lodovico Domenichi Lodovico Domenichi (1515–1564) was an Italian translator. Biography Lodovico Domenichi was born in Piacenza (Italy) in 1515. After studying Law at the University of Padua, he pursued a literary career. He lived in Piacenza, Venice and Florence ...
(1549) * ''Difese delle Donne'', A Defence of Women, Domenico Bruni da Pistoia (1552) * ''La bella e dotta difesa delle donne in verso, e prosa, di messer Luigi Dardano ... contra gli accusatori del sesso loro. Con un breue trattato di ammaestrare li figliuoli'', The Beautiful and Learned Defence of Women in Verse, Prose ... against the detractors of their sex, with a brief tract to be administered to sons, Luigi Dardano (1553) * ''Discorso sopra il Principio di Tutti I Canti di Orlando Furioso'', Discourse on the Principles of all the Canti of Orlando Furioso
Laura Terracina Laura Terracina (1519-c. 1577) was an Italian poet from Naples during the Renaissance. She was the most published Italian poet of the sixteenth century. Life Terracina was born in Chiaia, a suburb of Naples. Her mother, Diana Anfora of Sorrento ...
(1583) * ''Le Promenoir de M. de Montaigne qui traite de l'amour dans l'œuvre de Plutarque'',
Marie le Jars de Gournay Marie de Gournay (; 6 October 1565, Paris – 13 July 1645) was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including ''The Equality of Men and Women'' (''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', 1622) and ' ...
(1584) * ''Her Protection for Women'', Jane Anger (1589)


17th century

* '' The Worth of Women'' Il Merito delle Donne, Moderata Fonte (1600) * "Poem 92, called Philosophical Satire", Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1600s) * ''The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men''
Lucrezia Marinella Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was an Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights. She is best known for her writing ''The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men''. Her works have been noted for bringing wom ...
(1601) * ''A Muzzle for Melastomus, the Cynical Baiter of, and Foul-mouthed Barker Against Eve's Sex. Or An Apologetical Answer to that Irreligious and Illiterate Pamphlet Made by Jo. Sw. And By Him Entitled, "The Arraignment of Women"'',
Rachel Speght Rachel Speght (1597 – death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her t ...
(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 ''Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women'' is a Jacobean era stage play, an anonymous comedy that was part of an anti-feminist controversy of the 1615–20 period. Performance and publication ''Swetnam the Woman-Hater'' was first publish ...
'', Anonymous (1620) * ''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'',
Marie Le Jars de Gournay Marie de Gournay (; 6 October 1565, Paris – 13 July 1645) was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including ''The Equality of Men and Women'' (''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', 1622) and ' ...
(1622), translated into English as ''The Equality of Men and Women'' * ''Grief des dames'',
Marie Le Jars de Gournay Marie de Gournay (; 6 October 1565, Paris – 13 July 1645) was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including ''The Equality of Men and Women'' (''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', 1622) and ' ...
(1626), translated into English as ''The Ladies' Grievance'' * 'Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus. And how Women were the first that Preached the Tidings of the Resurrection of Jesus, and were sent by Christ's own Command, before he Ascended to the Father, John 20. 17.'', Margaret Fell (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 Engla ...
(1673) * ''De l'égalité des deux sexes'', François Poullain de la Barre (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 (1674) * '' La Princesse de Clèves'', 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 (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 (1697) * ''The Adventure of the Black Lady'',
Aphra Behn Aphra Behn (; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barrie ...
(1697)


18th century

*''Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered.'', Mary Astell (1700) *'' The Ladies' Defence, Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson'', Lady Mary Chudleigh (1701) *''The Education of Women'',
Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; born Daniel Foe; – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel '' Robinson Crusoe'', published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its ...
(1719) * ''The Emulation'', Sarah Fyge (1719) *''The Woman's Labour'', Mary Collier (1739) *''Letters From A Peruvian Woman'' (1747) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_a_Peruvian_Woman' *'' The Female Quixote'',
Charlotte Lennox Charlotte Lennox, ''née'' Ramsay (c. 1729 – 4 January 1804), was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, translator, essayist, and magazine editor, who has primarily been remembered as the author of '' The Female Quixote'', and for her assoc ...
(1756) *''An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles'', Mary Leapor (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 ma ...
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John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...
(1776) *''Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms'',
Judith Sargent Murray Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the ...
(1784) *''Philosophie eines Weibs: Von einer Beobachterin,'' Marianne Ehrmann (1784) *'' Mary: A Fiction'',
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationsh ...
(1788) *''Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King'' (1789) *"Women's Petition to the
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National Assembly" (1789) *''On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship'',
Marquis de Condorcet Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal pu ...
(1790) *"
On the Equality of the Sexes "On the Equality of the Sexes", also known as "Essay: On the Equality of the Sexes", is a 1790 essay by Judith Sargent Murray. Murray wrote the work in 1770 but did not release it until April 1790, when she published it in two parts in two separate ...
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Judith Sargent Murray Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the ...
, from ''The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum Concerning the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, Amusements of the Age, Vol. II'' (1790) * ''
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'' (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist 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, femini ...
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Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright ...
(1791)The Rights of Women, by Olympe De Gouges, including the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, all in English
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Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright ...
(1791) * ''Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne scritta da Rosa Califronia contessa romana,'', A Brief Defence of the Rights of Women of Rosa Califronia, Roman Countess, Rosa Califronia (1794) * ''La causa delle donne. Discorso agl'italiani della cittadina'', The Cause of Women, Discourse to Italians from a emaleCitizen, Anonymous, (1797) * '' Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman'',
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationsh ...
(1798)


19th century


1810s–1820s

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Pride and Prejudice ''Pride and Prejudice'' is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreci ...
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Jane Austen Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots of ...
(1813) *"An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New-York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education", Emma Willard (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 (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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Indi ...
(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'',
George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
(pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1834) *''The History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations'',
Lydia Maria Child Lydia Maria Child ( Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction an ...
(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 journ ...
(1837) *''Woman'', Harriet Martineau (1837) *''On Marriage'', Harriet Martineau (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 movem ...
(1843) *''Brief History of the Condition of Women: in Various Ages and Nations, Volume 2'',
Lydia Maria Child Lydia Maria Child ( Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction an ...
(1845) *"The Rights and Condition of Women",
Samuel May Samuel Joseph May (September 12, 1797 – July 1, 1871) was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery. May argued on behalf of all working people that the rights of h ...
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century ''Woman in the Nineteenth Century'' is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in ''The Dial'' magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", it w ...
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Margaret Fuller Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movem ...
(1845) *''Poganka'' (The Heathen Woman), by Narcyza Żmichowska (1846) *''
Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first ...
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Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...
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Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter The ''Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter'' icwas an abolitionist and women's rights paper printed in Pittsburgh. Founded in 1847, Jane Swisshelm was the editor and Robert M. Riddle printed the paper. It had good circulation numbers and ran until 185 ...
'', 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 his ...
. *" Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and p ...
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Anne Brontë Anne Brontë (, commonly ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria (born Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish cl ...
(1848) *"Voting Rights Speech",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1848) *"Discourse on Woman", Lucretia Mott (1849) *'' The Lily'', newspaper published by Amelia Bloomer (1849).


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 (1850–1851) *
Ain't I a Woman? "Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), born into slavery in New York State. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker. Her speech was deliver ...
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Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but esc ...
(1851) *"Enfranchisement of Women", Harriet Taylor Mill, from the ''Westminster Review'' (1851) *"Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention", Ernestine Rose (1851) *"The Responsibilities of Woman",
Clarina Howard Nichols Clarina Irene Howard Nichols (January 25, 1810 – January 11, 1885) was a journalist, lobbyist and public speaker involved in all three of the major reform movements of the mid-19th century: temperance, abolition, and the women's movement t ...
(1851) *" Cassandra",
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 ...
(1852) *"Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention", Matilda Joslyn Gage (1852) *''
Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung ''Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung'' (also known as ''Frauen-Zeitung'', English: ''The German Woman's Journal'') was a German language newspaper founded in 1852 by Mathilde Franziska Anneke in Milwaukee. The paper focused on women's rights issues and ...
,'' German-language women's rights journal published by Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1852). * '' Villette'',
Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...
(1853) *''What Time of Night It Is'',
Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but esc ...
(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 fo ...
(1853) *'' The Una'', feminist periodical published by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1853). *"A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women",
Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. She published her influential ''Brief Summary ...
(1854) *"Address to the Legislature of New York",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1854) *"English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century",
Caroline Norton Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.Perkin, pp. 26–28. She left her husband in 1836, who sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig ...
(1854) *"A Letter to the Queen On Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill",
Caroline Norton Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.Perkin, pp. 26–28. She left her husband in 1836, who sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig ...
(1855) *''Marriage of Lucy Stone Under Protest'',
Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a colle ...
, Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Henry Blackwell (1855) *"
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" is a short story written by American writer Herman Melville. It first appeared in the April 1855 edition of ''Harper's Magazine''. A combination of two sketches, one set in the center of London' ...
", Herman Melville (1855) *'' Ruth Hall'', Fanny Fern (1855) * "The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise",
Agnes Pochin Agnes Pochin (née Heap; 1825 – 1908) was an early British campaigner for women's rights. She funded campaigns, wrote one of the first tracts and was one of the three speakers at the first suffrage meeting in Manchester. Life Agnes Heap was ...
(1855) *''Hertha'',
Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a 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, 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 'Mot ...
(1859) *"Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?", Thomas Wentworth Higginson (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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1860) *''Female Teaching'',
Catherine Booth Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mot ...
(1861) * '' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'', Harriet Jacobs (1861) *"A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or Woman Affranchised. An Answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouve, Comte, and Other Modern Innovators", Jenny d'Héricourt (1864) *''
A Long Fatal Love Chase ''A Long Fatal Love Chase'' is a 1866 novel by Louisa May Alcott published posthumously in 1995. Two years before the publication of ''Little Women'', Alcott uncharacteristically experimented with the style of the thriller and submitted the result ...
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Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and '' Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...
(1866) *"Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women Considered",
Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. She published her influential ''Brief Summary ...
(1866) *''The Higher Education of Women'', Emily Davies (1866) *"Address To The First Anniversary Of The American Equal Rights Association", Frances D. Gage (1867) *"Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring",
Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but esc ...
(1867) *''
Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the live ...
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Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Little Men'' (1871) and '' Jo's Boys'' (1886). Raised in ...
(1868) *"The Destructive Male",
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1868) *"The Education and Employment of Women", Josephine Butler (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 gro ...
(1869) *'' The Subjection of Women'',
John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to ...
(1869) * ''The Woman with Prospects'',
Concepción Arenal Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, s ...
(Seville, Spain) (1869) *''Women and Politics'',
Charles Kingsley Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the worki ...
(1869)


1870s

*"About Marrying Too Young" from '' The Revolution'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1870) *"Are Women A Class?", Lillie Blake (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 gro ...
(1870) *''Man's Rights'', Annie Denton Cridge (1870) *''Endorsing Women's Enfranchisement'', Adelle Hazlett (1871) * ''Hit: Essays on Women's Rights'',
Mary Edwards Walker Mary Edwards Walker, M.D. (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor. ...
(1871) *"Letters to and from Polly Plum", Polly Plum (pen name of
Mary Ann Colclough Mary Ann Colclough ( Barnes; 20 February 1836–7 March 1885) was a New Zealand Feminism, feminist and social reformer. She was born in London, England on 20 February 1836. She contributed to various colonial newspapers under the pseudonym Polly ...
) (1871) *''On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women'', Matilda Joslyn Gage (1871) *"Put Us In Your Place" from '' The Revolution'', Lillie Blake (1871) *''On Woman's Right to Suffrage'', Susan B. Anthony (1872) *''Reasons For and Against the Enfranchisement of Women'',
Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. She published her influential ''Brief Summary ...
(1872) *''The Adventures of a Woman in Search of her Rights'', Florence Claxton (1872) *''Marta'' ( Polish for "Martha"), a novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa (1873) *"Sentencing of Susan B. Anthony for the Crime of Voting" (1873) *"Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent", Ezra Heywood (1873) *''Woman: Man's Equal'', Thomas Webster (1873) *"Women's Temperance Movement",
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has pr ...
(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 'Mot ...
(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 gro ...
(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 ...
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Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential pla ...
(1879) *''Social Purity'', Josephine Butler (1879) *''The Colorado Antelope'', feminist periodical founded by
Caroline Nichols Churchill Caroline Nichols Churchill (December 23, 1833 – 1926) was a Canadian-born writer and newspaper editor in the United States, best known as the editor of the '' Queen Bee'', a feminist publication prominent during the Colorado Suffrage movement ...
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'', Mary Lane (1880–81) *''Common Sense About Women'', Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1881) *''Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays'', Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1881) * ''Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland'', Augusta Bender (1883) *''The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States'',
Isabella Beecher Hooker Isabella Beecher Hooker (February 22, 1822 – January 25, 1907) was a leader, lecturer and social activist in the American suffragist movement. Early life Isabella Holmes Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the fifth child and sec ...
(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 (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, s ...
(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 'Mot ...
(1884) *"The Need of Liberal Divorce Laws" from the ''North American Review'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1884) *''
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State ''The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan'' (german: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats) is an 1884 philosophical treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is p ...
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Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
, from the ''North American Review'' (1885) *''Men, Women, And Gods, And Other Lectures'', Helen H. Gardener (1885) *'' The Bostonians'', Henry James (1886) * ''Cathy the Caryatid'' ( pl, Kaśka Kariatyda), a novel by
Gabriela Zapolska Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 25 ...
(1886) *''The Woman Question'', Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling (1886) *''Misogyny in Excelsis'',
Annie Besant Annie Besant ( Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights activist, educationist, writer, orator, political party member and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human ...
(1887) *''Women and Men'', Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1888) *''Women Who Go To College'',
Arthur Gilman Arthur Delevan Gilman (November 5, 1821, Newburyport, Massachusetts – July 11, 1882, Syracuse, New York) was an American architect, designer of many Boston neighborhoods, and member of the American Institute of Architects. Life and career Gi ...
(1888) * '' New Amazonia'', Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (1889) * ''The Administratrix'', Emma Ghent Curtis (1889) * '' Anno Domini, or Woman's Destiny 2000'' Julius Vogel 1889 * ''Ein deutsches Mädchen in Amerika'', Augusta Bender (1893)


1890s

* "Sex Slavery", Voltairine de Cleyre (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 I ...
" (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 (1892) *"Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association" (1892) *''Solitude of Self'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1892) * "
The Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in '' The New England Magazine''. It is regarded as an important early work ...
", Charlotte Perkins Gilman (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 ''T ...
'' ( Polish: ''Emancypantki''), a novel by Bolesław Prus (1890–93) *''So That Women May Receive the Vote'',
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia Meri may refer to: * Meri (name) * Meri (mythology), folk hero in Bororo mythology *Meri, term in shakuhachi music *''The Meri'', novel by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff *''Meri'', release title of La Mer (film) in Finland *Meri (political party), now-def ...
(1893) *"The Progress of Fifty Years",
Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a colle ...
(1893) * '' Unveiling a Parallel'', Alice Ilgenfritz Jones & Ella Merchant (1893) *''Woman, Church, and State'', Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893) *''Women's Cause is One and Universal'', Anna Julia Cooper (1893) * "Common Sense" Applied to Women's Suffrage,
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career pr ...
(1894) *"Speech on Women's Suffrage", Carrie Chapman Catt (1894) *" The Story of an Hour",
Kate Chopin Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
(1894) *''The New Woman'', Winona Branch Sawyer (1895) *"What Becomes of the Girl Graduates", Winona Branch Sawyer (1895) *"Anarchy and the Sex Question" from the ''New York World'',
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1896) *"Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious",
Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the ...
(1896) *''The Proletarian in the Home'', Eleanor Marx Aveling (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 'Mot ...
(1897) *"Why Go To College? An Address by
Alice Freeman Palmer Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was president of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George He ...
, Formerly President of Wellesley College",
Alice Freeman Palmer Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was president of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George He ...
(1897) *''Eighty Years and More'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1898)Eighty Years And More
/ref> *''The Renaissance of Girls' Education in England, a Record of Fifty Years Progress'', Alice Zimmern (1898) * " The Storm",
Kate Chopin Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
(1898) *''
The Woman's Bible ''The Woman's Bible'' is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man ...
'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1898) *''
Women and Economics ''Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution'' is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and a ...
'', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898) * ''
Arqtiq ''Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole'' is a feminist utopian adventure novel, published in 1899 by its author, Anna Adolph. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that marked the later nineteent ...
'', Anna Adolph (1899) * '' The Awakening'',
Kate Chopin Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
(1899)


20th century


1900s

*"Are Homogenous Divorce Laws in All the States Desirable?" from the ''North American Review'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1900) *"Inspired" Marriage, Robert Ingersoll (1900) *"Progress of the American Woman" from the ''North American Review'',
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...
(1900) *''A Bundle of Fallacies'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Co ...
(1901) *''Die Frauenfrage ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite'', Lily Braun (1901) *"Votes for Women",
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has pr ...
(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 Co ...
(1903) *"Declaration of Principles", by the
National American Woman Suffrage Association The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National ...
(1904) *"What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?" by
Anna Rüling Theodora "Theo" Anna Sprüngli (15 August 1880 – 8 May 1953), better known under the pseudonym Anna Rüling, was a German journalist whose speech in 1904 was the first political speech to address the problems faced by lesbians. One of the first ...
(1904) *" Sultana's Dream" from ''The Indian Ladies Magazine'',
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain") is the commonly used spelling of Rokeya's full married name, Rokeya herself is never seen to use her full married name in this English spelling. In much of her correspondence in English, she used just her initials: ...
(1905) * '' The House of Mirth'',
Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...
(1905) *''Blackburn S.D.P.'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Co ...
(1906) *''Kobiety'' (Women), Zofia Nałkowska (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'', the official journal of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1906 to 1924) *''Love's Coming of Age'', Edward Carpenter (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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(1909) *'' Herland'', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(1909) *''The Woman Movement'', Ellen Key (1909) *''What Diantha Did'', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (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 Co ...
(1909) *"Woman — Comrade and Equal", Eugene V. Debs (1909) * ''Narcyza'', Zofia Nałkowska (1910 Polish novel)


1910s

*''Love and Marriage'', Ellen Key (1911) *''Marriage and Love'',
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *'' Moving the Mountain'', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1911) *''Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World'', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1911) *"The Hypocrisy of Puritanism",
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *''The Sex and Woman Questions'', Lena Morrow Lewis (1911) *"The Traffic in Women",
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *"The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation",
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1911) *''Woman and Labor'', Olive Schreiner (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 Co ...
(1912) *''The Woman Voter'', Vida Goldstein (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 Co ...
(1912) *"The Woman With Empty Hands: The Evolution of a Suffragette",
Marion Hamilton Carter Marion Hamilton Carter (1865-1937) was an American Progressive Era educator, psychologist, children’s literature editor, short story writer, and artist. In her prime, she worked as a muckraker journalist, magazine editor, women’s suffrage ad ...
(1913) *"Freedom or Death",
Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst (''née'' Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was an English political activist who organised the UK suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, ''Time'' named her as one of the 100 Most Import ...
(1913) *"If Men Were Seeking the Franchise",
Jane Addams Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 May 21, 1935) was an American Settlement movement, settlement activist, Social reform, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of s ...
(1913) *''Samantha on the Woman Question'',
Marietta Holley Marietta Holley (pen names, Jemyma, later, Josiah Allen's Wife; July 16, 1836 – March 1, 1926), was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and politics. Holley enjoyed a prolific writing career and was a bestselling au ...
*The Needle and the Pen, poem by Silvia Fernandez (1913) *"Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" from ''The Forerunner'', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (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 (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) (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 Sh ...
(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 wa ...
(1915) *"The Crisis", Carrie Chapman Catt (1916) *"The Social Evil, Women's Convention, by the Women's Political Association (Non-Party)" (1916) *''Trifles: A Play in One Act'',
Susan Glaspell Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. First know ...
(1916) *'' With Her in Ourland'', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (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 (editor) (1917) *"Speech to Congress", Carrie Chapman Catt (1917) *''Woman Suffrage'',
Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...
(1917) *''Women Are People!'',
Alice Duer Miller Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel ''The W ...
(1917) *"Labour Party Women's Conference",
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Co ...
(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 classificati ...
(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 six ...
(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 Co ...
(1919) *"On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia", Alexandra Kollontai (1919) *''Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America'', Victor Robinson (1919) * '' The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal?'',
Beatrice Webb Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term ''collective bargaining''. She ...
(1919) *''The Woman and the Right to Vote'', Rafael Palma (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 (1919)


1920s

*''Communism and the Family'', Alexandra Kollontai (1920) *"International Women's Day", Alexandra Kollontai (1920) *''Jailed For Freedom'', Doris Stevens (1920) *''Now We Can Begin'',
Crystal Eastman Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 28, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with ...
(1920) *''Race Motherhood, Is Woman a Race?'',
Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Co ...
(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 ...
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Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...
(1920) *''Woman and the New Race'',
Margaret Sanger Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth contro ...
(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 Co ...
(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 Co ...
(1921) *''Prostitution and Ways of Fighting It'', Alexandra Kollontai (1921) *''Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle'', Alexandra Kollontai (1921) *''The Labor of Women in the Evolution of the Economy'', Alexandra Kollontai (1921) *''The Morality of Birth Control'',
Margaret Sanger Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth contro ...
(1921) *''Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations'', Alexandra Kollontai (1921) *"Woman's Rights Party Platform" (1922) *''A Great Love'', Alexandra Kollontai (1923) *''Red Love'', Alexandra Kollontai (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 Co ...
(1925)From a Victorian to a Modern
/ref> *"The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation", Elise Johnson McDougald (1925) *''Concerning Women'', Suzanne La Follette (1926) *''The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman'', Alexandra Kollontai (1926) *''
A Room of One's Own ''A Room of One's Own'' is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of C ...
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Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born ...
(1929)


1930s

*'' Women in Music'', edited by
Frédérique Petrides Frédérique Petrides (pronounced peh TREE dis), (September 26, 1903 – January 12, 1983), was a Belgian-American conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York. It consisted of women musici ...
(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 ...
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Djuna Barnes Djuna Barnes (, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel ''Nightwood'' (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist litera ...
(1936) *''
Three Guineas ''Three Guineas'' is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938. Background Although ''Three Guineas'' is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her ...
'',
Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born ...
(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 (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 wa ...
(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 Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even ...
(1949)


1950s

* "Women as a Minority Group", Helen Mayer Hacker (1951) *''The Matriarchal-Brotherhood: Sex and Labor in Primitive Society'',
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(1954) *''The Myth of Women's Inferiority'',
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(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'',
Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing (; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remain ...
(1962) *"A Bunny's Tale, Part I", by
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism 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 Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even ...
(1963) *''
The Bell Jar ''The Bell Jar'' is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The boo ...
'', Sylvia Plath (1963) * '' The Feminine Mystique'',
Betty Friedan Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book '' The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the se ...
(1963) *"A Study of the Feminine Mystique",
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(1964) *
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced ) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segreg ...
Position Paper: Women in the Movement (1964) *"Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII", Mary Eastwood and
Pauli Murray Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 she became one of the first women ...
(1965) *"Sex and Caste - A Kind of Memo",
Casey Hayden Sandra Cason "Casey" Hayden (born October 31, 1937), was an American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s. Recognized for her defense of direct action in the struggle against racial segregation, in 1960 she was an early ...
and Mary King (1965) *''Up Your Ass'', Valerie Solanas (1965) *''Child'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1966) *"Free Woman" from the ''San Francisco Express Times'', Heather Dean (1966) *The
National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It ...
's 1966 Statement of Purpose,
Betty Friedan Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book '' The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the se ...
(1966) *"What Concrete Steps Can Be Taken to Further the Homophile Movement",
Shirley Willer Shirley Willer (September 26, 1922 – December 31, 1999) was an American feminist and activist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Willer joined the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in the 1950s and became the president of the organization a few years a ...
(1966) *"Woman's Place: Silence or Service?", Letha Scanzoni (1966) (original manuscript, possibly not as published in 1966) *"Women: The Longest Revolution",
Juliet Mitchell Juliet Mitchell, Lady Goody (born 4 October 1940) is a British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author. Early life and education Mitchell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1940, and then moved to England in 1 ...
(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 Kool-Smits (1967), translated into English as "The Discontent of Women" * "The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational Structure", by
Radical Women Radical Women (RW) is a socialist feminist grassroots activist organization affiliated with the Freedom Socialist Party. It has branches in Seattle, Washington, and Melbourne, Australia. History Radical Women emerged in Seattle from a "Free Uni ...
(1967) *"To the Women of the Left" (1967) *"Abortion Rally Speech", Anne Koedt (1968) *"A Letter to the Editor of ''
Ramparts Magazine ''Ramparts'' was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the New Left political movement. Unlike most of the radical magazines of the day, ''Ramparts'' was expensively ...
''", Lynn Piartney (1968) *"Black Women in Poverty", various authors (1968) *"Burial of Weeping Womanhood", Radical Women's Group (1968) *"Elevate Marriage to Partnership", Letha Scanzoni (1968) (original manuscript, not as published in 1968) *"Funeral Oration for the Burial of Traditional Womanhood", Kathie Amatniek (1968) *"Letter to the Editor in Response to a ''Guardian'' Article",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(1968) *''Morning Hair'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1968) *
National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It ...
(N.O.W.) Bill of Rights (1968) *''No More Fun and Games: A Journal of Female Liberation'' (1968) *"No More
Miss America Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As ...
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Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
), 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 ''Sexual Politics'' is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation. It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism's key texts. ''Sexu ...
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Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors ...
(1968) *''The Church and the Second Sex'', Mary Daly (1968) *"The 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'' ewsletter(1968–1969) *"What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?" (1968) * "Women and Power",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism 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 Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Qu ...
(1969) *"Are Men Really the Enemy?", Jayne West (1969) *"An Argument for Black Women's Liberation As a Revolutionary Force", Mary Ann Weathers (1969) *"An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights" from ''Life'',
Sara Davidson Sara Davidson (born 1943) is a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the best-selling ''Loose Change''. . From '' The New York Times'' It was adapted as a television mini-series. In addition, she has written other series a ...
(1969) *'' Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female'', Frances Beal (1969) *"Equal Rights for Women",
Shirley Chisholm Shirley Anita Chisholm ( ; ; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional distr ...
(1969) *"Females and Welfare", Betsy Warrior (1969) *"Founding Editorial" from ''Women: A Journal of Liberation'' (1969) *"Freedom for Movement Girls - Now", vanauken (1969) *'' I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'',
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...
(1969) *"Lesbianism and Feminism", Wilda Chase (1969) * ''
Les Guérillères ''Les Guérillères'' is a 1969 novel by Monique Wittig.
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Monique Wittig Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled ''The Straig ...
(1969) *"Politics of the Ego: A Manifesto",
New York Radical Feminists New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt in 1969, after they had left Redstockings and The Feminists, respectively. Firestone's and Koedt's desire to start this new group was ...
(1969) *Proposed Statement of Political Principles (1969) *"Radical Feminism and Love",
Ti-Grace Atkinson Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938), better known as Ti-Grace Atkinson, is an American radical feminist activist, writer and philosopher. Life and career Atkinson was born into a prominent Louisiana family. Named after her grandmother, Gra ...
(1969) *"
Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
Manifesto" (1969) *"Sweet 16 to Saggy 36: Saga of American Womanhood", Cleveland Radical Women's Group (1969) *"The First Press Coverage of the
Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
" from ''Scenes'' (1969) *"The Grand Coolie Damn", Marge Piercy (1969) *"The Last of the Red Hot Mammas, Or, the Liberation of Women as Performed by the Inmates of the World" (1969) * "The Next Great Moment in History Is Theirs",
Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. Early Life and Education In 1957 Gornick received a bachelor of arts degree from City College of New York and in 1960 a master of ...
(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 Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(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 Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring th ...
, (1972) *''Liberation of Women: Sexual Repression and the Family'', Laurel Limpus (1970s) *"About Us", San Diego Women's Collective (1970) *"Benjo Kara no Kaiho", in English "Liberation from the Toilet",
Mitsu Tanaka is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffere ...
(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 The Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM) was an alliance of a group of Irish women who were concerned about the sexism within Ireland both socially and legally. They first began after a meeting in Dublin's Bewley's Cafe on Grafton Street in 1 ...
(1970) * Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands lyrics (1970s) *"Erosu Kaihō Sengen", in English "Liberation from Eros,"
Mitsu Tanaka is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffere ...
(1970) *"For the Equal Rights Amendment",
Shirley Chisholm Shirley Anita Chisholm ( ; ; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional distr ...
(1970) *"Goodbye to All That" from ''Rat'', Robin Morgan (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 Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(1970) *"Judge Carswell And The 'Sex Plus' Doctrine",
Betty Friedan Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book '' The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the se ...
(1970) *''Notes From The Second Year: Women's Liberation'', New York Radical Women (1970) * '' off our backs'' (1970–present) *"Poor White Women", Roxanne Dunbar (1970) * ''
Sexual Politics ''Sexual Politics'' is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation. It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism's key texts. ''Sexu ...
'',
Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors ...
(1970) * '' 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 Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties ...
(1970) *"The Building of the Gilded Cage" from ''The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism'', Joreen (1970) * '' 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 Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 she became one of the first women ...
(1970) *"
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" is a feminist essay on women's sexuality written by American radical feminist activist Anne Koedt in 1968, and published in 1970. It first appeared in a four-paragraph outline form in the ''Notes from the Second Y ...
", Anne Koedt (1970) *"The Politics of Housework", Pat Mainardi of
Redstockings Redstockings, also known as Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist nonprofit that was founded in January 1969 in New York City, whose goal is "To Defend and Advance the Women's Liberation Agenda". The group's name ...
(1970) *"The Revolution is Happening in Our Minds" from ''Revolution II: Thinking Female'', Joreen (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",
Radicalesbians This article addresses the history of lesbianism in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, the members of same-sex female couples discussed here are not known to be lesbian (rather than, for example, bisexual), but they are mentioned as part ...
(1970) *"Towards A Revolutionary Women's Union: A Strategic Perspective", Terry R. and Lucy G. (1970) *"You Are Not My God, Jehovah!", Rev. Peggy Way (1970) * "Young Lords Party Position Paper on Women", Central Committee of the
Young Lords The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
Party (1970) *''What Is a Woman?'', Norma Allen (1970) *"What Is Women's Liberation?", Marilyn Salzman Webb, from WIN (1970) *"What It Would Be Like If Women Win",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(1970) *"What Men Can Do For Women's Liberation", Gainesville Women's Liberation (1970) *"Who We Are", ''Siren: A Journal of Anarcho-Feminism'' (1970) *"Why 'Sex Liberation' - Raising the Problem of Women's Liberation",
Mitsu Tanaka is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffere ...
(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 Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(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'',
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 ...
(1970) *"Women's Lib Organizations", Karen Durbin, from WIN (1970) *"Women's Lib: The War on 'Sexism'", Helen Dudar (1970) *"Women's Oppression: Cortejas", Connie Morales, Education Ministry,
Young Lords The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-det ...
(1970) *"Abortions", Gloria Colon, Ministry of Education, Central Headquarters Young Lords Party (1971) *"A Daughter and Mother Talk About Sexuality", Elaine and her mother from ''Womankind'' (1971–1972) *"A Defense of Abortion" from ''Philosophy & Public Affairs'', Vol. 1, no. 1,
Judith Jarvis Thomson Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experimen ...
(Fall 1971) *"After the Death of God the Father" from ''Commonweal'', Mary Daly (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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Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner The Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA), housed at thGraduate School of Education at Stanford Universityis a centralized electronic database of Jewish communal policy research. Its collection contains more than 20,000 documents, with holdings spa ...
*"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 Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist. She is a founding editor of ''Ms.'' magazine, the author of twelve books, and was an editorial consultant for the TV special '' Free to B ...
(1971) *"Equal Only When Obligated", Deborah Miller (1971) *"Feminism and 'The Female Eunuch'",
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(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 Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(1971) *"Manifeste des 343 Salopes",
Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even ...
, from ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' (1971), translated into English as the " Manifesto of the 343 Sluts" *"Lemme Tell Ya About Being a Woman Lawyer...", Susan from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Lesbianism and Feminism", Anne Koedt (1971) *"Masters of War" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Mr. Smith, Take A Memo: I've Got Some Things to Tell You" from ''Womankind'' (1971) *''
Ms. Ms. (American English) or Ms (British English; normally , but also , or when unstressed)''Oxford English Dictionary'' online, Ms, ''n.2''. Etymology: "An orthographic and phonetic blend of Mrs ''n.1'' and miss ''n.2'' Compare mizz ''n.'' The pr ...
'' (1971–present) *"
New York Radical Feminists New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt in 1969, after they had left Redstockings and The Feminists, respectively. Firestone's and Koedt's desire to start this new group was ...
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 Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(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 Kathleen Barry (born January 22, 1941) is an American sociologist and feminist. After researching and publishing books on international human sex trafficking, she cofounded the United Nations NGO, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CAT ...
(1971) *"United Women's Contingent: March On Washington Against the War" (1971) *"Using Your Maiden Name", Diane and Linda from ''Womankind'' (1971) *"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" from ''ArtNews'',
Linda Nochlin Linda Nochlin (''née'' Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. As a prominent feminist art h ...
(1971) *"Why Women's Liberation?" from ''Black Maria'' (1971) *"Woman as Patient", Laura Green and Womankind (1971) * ''Woman's Estate'',
Juliet Mitchell Juliet Mitchell, Lady Goody (born 4 October 1940) is a British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author. Early life and education Mitchell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1940, and then moved to England in 1 ...
(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 Carol Downer (born 1933 in Oklahoma) is an American feminist lawyer and non-fiction author who focused her career on abortion rights and women's health around the world. She was involved in the creation of the self-help movement and the first self ...
(1972) *"DARE Challenges City Hall Budget" (1972) *"Don't Think", from ''Womankind'' (1972) *"Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women n 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 is a Japanese feminist and writer, who became well known as a radical activist during the early 1970s. Early life Tanaka was born in 1943 as the third daughter of a fishmonger called Uogiku in front of Kisshō-ji, Tokyo. At birth, she suffere ...
(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 Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutg ...
(1972) *'' Lesbian/Woman'',
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Dorothy Louise Taliaferro "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) and Phyllis Ann Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) were an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists. Martin and Lyon met in 1950, ...
(1972) *''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen'',
Alix Kates Shulman Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Qu ...
(1972) *" 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'',
Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, ...
(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 Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until ...
(1972) *"The Fear of Childbirth is a PAIN", from ''Womankind'' (1972) *''
The Feminist Art Journal ''The Feminist Art Journal'' was an American magazine, published quarterly from 1972 to 1977. It was the first stable, widely read journal covering feminist art. By the time the final publication was produced, ''The Feminist Art Journal'' had a cir ...
'' (1972-1977) *"The Feminization of Society",
Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...
(1972) *"The Lesbian and God-the-Father, or, All the Church Needs Is a Good Lay . . . On Its Side",
Sally Miller Gearhart Sally Miller Gearhart (April 15, 1931 – July 14, 2021) was an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired ...
(1972) *" The Tyranny of Structurelessness", Joreen (1972) *"Tum'ah and Toharah: Ends and Beginnings",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(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'', Erica Jong (1973) *'' Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution'',
Jill Johnston Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 – September 18, 2010) was a British-born American feminist author and cultural critic who wrote '' Lesbian Nation'' in 1973 and was a longtime writer for ''The Village Voice''. She was also a leader of the lesbian ...
(1973) *"Letter from the Abortion Defense Fund" (1973) *"Me and Them Sirens Running All Night Long", Susan Cavin (1973) *"Mom on a Hook" from ''Womankind'' (1973) *"On Separatism", Lee Schwing (1973) * '' Our Bodies, Ourselves'', The Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1973) *"Posters that Express the Reality of Being a Woman", Linda Winer (1973) *"
Rape Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or ...
", 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 The National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) was founded in 1973. The group worked to address the unique issues affecting black women in America.Wilma Pearl Mankiller. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, Houghton Mifflin Books, 1998 ...
's Statement of Purpose" (1973) *"The Status of Women in Halakhic Judaism", Saul Berman (1973) *"The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq.",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(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 ''When I Was Growing Up'' is an autobiographical poem written by revolutionary feminist activist, Nellie Wong in 1973, describing her struggle to identify as an Asian-American girl growing up in the United States. Wong reflects on the universal re ...
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Nellie Wong Nellie Wong (born 12 September 1934) is an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong is also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. Biography Wong was born in Oakland, California to Chines ...
(1973) *''Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers'',
Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and awa ...
and Deirdre English (1973) *"Abortion--the Need to Change Jewish Law",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(1974) *"A Young Woman's Death: Would Health Rights Have Prevented It?", Helen Rodriquez-Trias (1974) *"Feminism, a Cause for the Halachic",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(1974) *"Feminism, Art, and My Mother Sylvia",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1974) *"In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South", from ''Ms.'',
Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awa ...
(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 Jane Lauren Alpert (born May 20, 1947) is an American former far left radical who conspired in the bombings of eight government and commercial office buildings in New York City in 1969. Arrested when other members of her group were caught plantin ...
(1974) *''Speculum of the Other Woman'',
Luce Irigaray Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. Irigaray's first and most well kn ...
(1974) *"What Educated Women Can Do",
Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 and was al ...
(1974) *'' Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1974) *"A Black Feminist's Search For Sisterhood", Michele Wallace (1975) *''Abortion is a Blessing'', Anne Nicol Gaylor (1975) * ''
Against Our Will ''Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape'' is a 1975 book about rape by Susan Brownmiller, in which the author argues that rape is "a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." Summary Brownmiller cri ...
'', Susan Brownmiller (1975) *"DAR II (Dykes for the Second American Revolution)" (1975) *"Feminist Economic Alliance Formed to Aid New Sister Credit Unions" (1975) *''
Hecate Hecate or Hekate, , ; grc-dor, Ἑκάτᾱ, Hekátā, ; la, Hecatē or . is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and in later periods depict ...
'' (1975–present) *"How to Discriminate Against Women Without Really Trying" from ''Women: A Feminist Perspective'', Joreen (1975) *''Judaism and the New Woman'',
Sally Priesand Sally Jane Priesand (born June 27, 1946) is America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas. Priesand was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Je ...
(1975) *"Lesbian Group 975 Conference Report (1975) *"Lesbian Pride",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1975) *''Reaching Beyond Intellect'', Hallie Iglehart and Jeanne Scott-Senior (1975) *'' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' (1975–present) *"Stand Up and Be Counted", Secret Storm (1975) * ''The Female Imagination'', Patricia Meyer Spacks (1975) * ''
The Female Man ''The Female Man'' is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ. It was originally written in 1970 and first published in 1975 by Bantam Books. Russ was an ardent feminist and challenged sexist views during the 1970s with her ...
'', Joanna Russ (1975) *"The Legal Bias Against Rape Victims (The Rape of Mr. Smith)," Connie K. Borkenhagen (1975) *"The Root Cause",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1975) * "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex,"
Gayle Rubin Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949 in South Carolina) is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prosti ...
(1975) * "Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness," Sandra Bartky (1975) * "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," Laura Mulvey (1975) * ''Wages Against Housework'',
Silvia Federici Silvia Federici (born in Parma, Italy, 1942) is a scholar, teacher, and feminist activist based in New York. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. She al ...
(1975) *"What is Women's Liberation?", Secret Storm (1975) *"What Medical Students Learn", Kay Weiss (1975) *'' Woman's Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family'',
Evelyn Reed Evelyn Reed (31 October 1905 – 1979) was an American communist and women's rights activist. In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of T ...
(1975) *"You Are Where You Eat", Laura Shapiro (1975) *"A Feminist Tarot",
Sally Miller Gearhart Sally Miller Gearhart (April 15, 1931 – July 14, 2021) was an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired ...
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'' (1976–present) *"Female God Language in a Jewish Context",
Rita Gross Rita M. Gross (July 6, 1943 – November 11, 2015) was an American Buddhist feminist scholar of religions and author. Before retiring, she was Professor of Comparative Studies in Religion at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. In 1974 G ...
(1976) *"Feminism: Is it Good for the Jews?", Blu Greenberg (1976) *"Is the Women's Movement in Trouble?" from Working Papers on Socialism & Feminism, Roberta Lynch (1976) * '' Kinflicks'',
Lisa Alther Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944) is an American author and novelist. Personal life Alther was born in Kingsport, Tennessee in 1944. Her father was a surgeon, while her mother was a homemaker. She has 3 brothers and a sister. She graduated from W ...
(1976) *"Learning From Lesbian Separatism",
Charlotte Bunch Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutg ...
(1976) * ''Literary Women'', Ellen Moers (1976) * ''
Lover Lover or lovers may refer to a person having a sexual or romantic relationship with someone outside marriage. In this context see: * Sexual partner * Mistress (lover) * Extramarital sex * Premarital sex Lover or Lovers may also refer to: G ...
'',
Bertha Harris Bertha Harris (December 17, 1937 – May 22, 2005) was an American lesbian novelist. She is highly regarded by critics and admirers, but her novels are less familiar to the broader public. Personal life Bertha Anne Harris was born in Fay ...
(1976) * ''Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution'', Adrienne Rich (1976) *"Medical Crimes Against Women", Jenny Knauss, Janet M., Kathy Mallin, Lauren Crawford and Sharon M. (1976) *'' Meridian'',
Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awa ...
(1976) *''Our blood: prophecies and discourses on sexual politics'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1976) *"The Laugh of the Medusa", Hélène Cixous (1976) * ''The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangement and Human Malaise'',
Dorothy Dinnerstein Dorothy Dinnerstein (April 4, 1923 – December 17, 1992) was an American academic and activist, best known for her 1976 book ''The Mermaid and the Minotaur''. Drawing from elements of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, particularly as developed by ...
(1976) *"What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity",
Elaine H. Pagels Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosti ...
(1976) *"What is Socialist Feminism?",
Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and awa ...
(1976) *''
When God Was a Woman ''When God Was a Woman'' is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and art historian Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the United Kingdom as ''The Paradise Papers: The Suppression of Women's Rites''. It has been translated into Frenc ...
'', 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 The Combahee River Collective ( ) was a Black feminist lesbian socialist organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980. Marable, Manning; Leith Mullings (eds), ''Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal'', Combahee ...
(1977) *"Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *"Claiming an Education", Adrienne Rich (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 ''Egalia's Daughters'' ( no, Egalias døtre) is a novel by Gerd Brantenberg that was first published in 1977 in Norwegian. The novel is like most of Brantenberg's other works – norm-breaking in such a way that it questions the social, existen ...
''), by Gerd Brantenberg (1977) *"Left-Wing Anti-Feminism: A Revisionist Disorder",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She char ...
(1977) *"Marx and Gandhi were Liberals: Feminism and the 'Radical' Left",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *"Monopoly Capitalism and the Women's Movement",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She char ...
(1977) *"On the Super-Exploitation of Women",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She char ...
(1977) *"Pornography: The New Terrorism"
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *''Sex Bias in the U.S. Code'', United States Commission on Civil Rights (1977) *"The Last Mile", Edith Grinnell (1977) *"The Prostitute: Paradigmatic Woman", Julia P. Stanley (1977) *"The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation: A Class Analysis",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She char ...
(1977) *"The Simple Story of a Lesbian Girlhood",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1977) *"The Sisterhood Rip-Off: The Destruction of the Left in the Professional Women's Caucuses",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She char ...
(1977) *"The Subjugation of Women Under Capitalism: The Bourgeois Morality",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She char ...
(1977) *''
The Women's Room ''The Women's Room'' is the debut novel by American feminist author Marilyn French, published in 1977. It launched French as a major participant in the feminist movement and, while French states it is not autobiographical, the book reflects ma ...
'',
Marilyn French Marilyn French (; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author. Life French was born in Brooklyn to E. Charles Edwards, an engineer, and Isabel Hazz Edwards, a department store clerk. In her youth, she was a jou ...
(1977) *''This Sex Which Is Not One'',
Luce Irigaray Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. Irigaray's first and most well kn ...
(1977) *"Wages for Housework and Strategies of Revolutionary Fantasy",
Marlene Dixon The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. She char ...
(1977) *''Who really starves?: Women and world hunger'', Lisa Leghorn and Mary Roodkowsky (1977) *''
Women's Studies in Communication ''Women's Studies in Communication'' is a feminist journal. It was first published in 1977 and is the journal of the Organization for Research on Women and Communication. It is published by Taylor & Francis. From 2014 until 2017, Joan Faber McA ...
'' (1977–present) *"A Feminist Looks at Saudi Arabia",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1978) *"Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture",
Valerie Jaudon Valerie Jaudon (born August 6, 1945) is an American painter commonly associated with various Postminimal practices – the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, site-specific public art, and new tendencies in abstraction. Life Valerie ...
and Joyce Kozloff (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) *''
Crystal Eastman Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 28, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with ...
on Women and Revolution'', edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook (1978) *"Fat is A Feminist Issue",
Susie Orbach Susie Orbach (born 6 November 1946) is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her first book, ''Fat is a Feminist Issue'', analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against m ...
(1978) *"Full Employment: Toward Economic Equality For Women", Joreen (1978) *''Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism'', Mary Daly (1978) *"On the
National Black Feminist Organization The National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) was founded in 1973. The group worked to address the unique issues affecting black women in America.Wilma Pearl Mankiller. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, Houghton Mifflin Books, 1998 ...
", Michele Wallace (1978) *"The New Woman's Broken Heart",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1978) *''
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography ''The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography'' is a 1978 non-fiction book by Angela Carter. The book is a feminist re-appraisal of the work of the Marquis de Sade, consisting of a collection of essays analyzing his literature, particularly ...
'', Angela Carter (1978) *"The Wander-ground",
Sally Miller Gearhart Sally Miller Gearhart (April 15, 1931 – July 14, 2021) was an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired ...
(1978) *"Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power",
Audre Lorde Audre Lorde (; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, womanist, radical feminist, professor, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," wh ...
(1978) *"Why So-called Radical Men Love and Need Pornography",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1978) *"Why Women Need the Goddess", Carol P. Christ (1978) *'' X: A Fabulous Child's Story'', Lois Gould (1978) *"Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(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 Catherine Clément (; born 10 February 1939) is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty ...
(1979) *''Sexual harassment of working women: a case of sex discrimination'',
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(1979) * '' The Bloody Chamber'', Angela Carter (1979) *"The Double Standard of Aging",
Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. He ...
(1979) *"The Lie",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1979) * ''
The Madwoman in the Attic ''The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination'' is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which they examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective. Gilbert and Gubar draw th ...
'',
Sandra Gilbert Sandra M. Gilbert (born December 27, 1936) is an American literary critic and poet who has published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. She is best known for her collaborative critical wor ...
and
Susan Gubar Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944) is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University. She is best known for co-authoring the landmark feminist literary study '' The Madwoman in ...
(1979) *"The Night and Danger",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1979) *'' The Transsexual Empire'',
Janice Raymond Janice G. Raymond (born January 24, 1943) is an American lesbian radical feminist and professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is known for her work against violence, sexual explo ...
(1979) *"35% of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized", Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization (late 1970s) * "The Tyranny of Tyranny", Cathy Levine (1979) * ''Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her'',
Susan Griffin Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works. Life Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943 and has resided i ...
(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 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1980) *"
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" is a 1980 essay by Adrienne Rich, which was also published in her 1986 book ''Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985'' as a part of the radical feminism movement of the late '60s, '7 ...
", 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 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1980) *"True Liberation of Women",
Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 and was al ...
(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? Black Women and Feminism'', bell hooks (1981) *"Nature's Revenge",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(1981) *"Pornography and Male Supremacy",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) *'' Pornography: Men Possessing Women'', Andrea Dworkin (1981) *"Pornography's Part in Sexual Violence",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) *"The ACLU: Bait and Switch",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) *'' This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color'', Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (1981) *"Toward A Feminist Jurisprudence", Ann C. Scales (1981) *"Why Pornography Matters to Feminists",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1981) * '' Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis'', edited by Robin Ruth Linden, Darlene R. Pagano, Diana E. H. Russell, and Susan Leigh Star (1982) *'' All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies'', edited by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith (1982) *''
Feministische Studien ''Feministische Studien (Feminist Studies)'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal, published since 1982. It features articles written in German and English, covering on women's studies. It is published by the Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesell ...
'' (; 1982–present) *'' Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy'' (1982–present) *'' In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development'', Carol Gilligan (1982) *''Invisible Women: The Schooling Scandal'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1982) *''
Powers of Horror ''Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection'' (french: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva. The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund ...
'', Julia Kristeva (1982) *''The Anatomy of Freedom'', Robin Morgan (1982) *''
The Color Purple ''The Color Purple'' is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
'', Alice Walker (1982) *"The Importance of Women's Paid Labour: Women at Work in World War II", Lynn Beaton (1982) *'' Zami: A New Spelling of My Name'', Audre Lorde (1982) *''Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
, ed. (1983) *'' For Love or Money, a Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia'', Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley (1983) *'' Home Girls'', various authors (1983) * ''
How to Suppress Women's Writing ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'' is a book by Joanna Russ, published in 1983. Written in the style of a sarcastic and irreverent guidebook, it explains how women are prevented from producing written works, not given credit when such works are pr ...
'', Joanna Russ (1983) *'' In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose'', Alice Walker (1983) *"I've Had Nothing Yet, So I Can't Take More",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(1983) * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'',
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(1983) * ''Right Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1983) * ''Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology'',
Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology. Her teaching and her writings helped est ...
(1983) * '' The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory'', Marilyn Frye (1983) * ''There's Always Been a Women's Movement in the Twentieth Century'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1983) * "Whose Press? Whose Freedom?",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1983) * "Comparable Worth" from ''In These Times'', Joreen (1984) * "Female Rabbis, Male Fears", Chaim Sedler-Feller (1984) * ''In Search of Answers: Indian Women's Voices'',
Madhu Kishwar Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a commentator.
and
Ruth Vanita Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy. Early life and education Vanita earne ...
* '' Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center'', bell hooks (1984) * "I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There is No Rape",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1984) * ''Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy'', Mary Daly (1984) * '' Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology'', edited by Robin Morgan (1984) * ''
Sister Outsider ''Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches'' is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a writer who focuses on the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist ...
'', Audre Lorde (1984) *'' The Man of Reason: 'Male' and 'Female' in Western Philosophy'', Genevieve Lloyd (1984) *"The Missing Rib: The Forgotten Place of Queens and Priestesses in the Establishment of Zion", Margaret Toscano (1984) *"Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography and Equality",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1985) *"A Person Paper on Purity in Language", William Satire (pen name of Douglas Richard Hofstadter) (1985) * ''
Australian Feminist Studies ''Australian Feminist Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering feminist studies. It was established in 1985 and is published by Routledge. The founding editor-in-chief was Susan Magarey (University of Adelaide). She was su ...
'' (1985–present) * ''Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals'',
Marilyn French Marilyn French (; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author. Life French was born in Brooklyn to E. Charles Edwards, an engineer, and Isabel Hazz Edwards, a department store clerk. In her youth, she was a jou ...
(1985) * "Breaking With Invisibility", Cady (1985) * ''For the Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1985) * "Loving Books: Male/Female/Feminist" from ''Hot Wire'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1985) * ''Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays'', Joanna Russ (1985) * "Shifting Horizons", Lynn Beaton (1985) * ''
The Handmaid's Tale ''The Handmaid's Tale'' is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which ...
'', Margaret Atwood (1985) * ''The Reasons Why: Essays on the New Civil Rights Law Recognizing Pornography as Sex Discrimination'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
and
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(1985) * ''Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Select Prose (1979–1985)'', Adrienne Rich (1986) *''
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World ''Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World'' is a 1986 publication by Sri Lankan author Kumari Jayawardena. Kumari’s book has been described as a feminist classic and widely used in gender and women’s studies to date as a primer of Third-Wo ...
'', Kumari Jayawardena (1986) * ''Feminist Studies, Critical Studies'',
Teresa de Lauretis Teresa de Lauretis (; born 1938 in Bologna) is an Italian author and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her areas of interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory ...
(1986) *"Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis", Joan Wallach Scott (1986) *''Ice and Fire'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1986) *"If Men Could Menstruate" from ''Ms.'',
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(1986) *"Letter from a War Zone",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1986) *''Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody'', Phyllis Chesler (1986) *'' Agenda'' (1987–present) * '' Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza'', Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) * '' Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law'', Catharine MacKinnon (1987) * '' Intercourse'', Andrea Dworkin (1987) *'' Landscape for a Good Woman'', Carolyn Kay Steedman (1987) *''Making it: A Woman's Guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS'',
Cindy Patton Cindy Patton (born February 12, 1956) is an American sociologist and historian specializing in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A former faculty member at Temple University and Emory University, she currently teaches at Simon Fraser University, ...
and Janis Kelly (1987) *'' Reconstructing Womanhood'', Hazel Carby (1987) *''The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth'', Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor (198

*"Voyage in the Dark: Hers and Ours",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1987) *''Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language, Conjured in Cahoots with Jane Caputi'', Mary Daly, 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 Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(1988) *'' 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 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
and
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(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: 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: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'', Judith Butler (1989) *''Letters from a War Zone: Writings, 1976–1989'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1989) *''Makaan'', Paigham Afaqui (1989) *"Men, Women and Biblical Equality",
Christians for Biblical Equality Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE) is an organization that promotes Christian egalitarianism also known as Christian egalitarianism, evangelical feminism and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. CBE's Mission Statement reads: "CBE ...
(1989) *"More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing",
Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economi ...
(1989) * "Presenting...Sister No Blues",
Hattie Gossett Hattie Gossett (born 11 April 1942) is an African-American feminist playwright, poet, and magazine editor. Her work focuses on bolstering the self-esteem of young black women. Biography Born in New Jersey, Gossett gained a Master of Fine Arts ...
(1989) * "Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: 'Pleasure Under Patriarchy'",
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(1989) *''The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home'',
Arlie Russell Hochschild Arlie Russell Hochschild (; born January 15, 1940) is an American professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and writer. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions that underlie moral beliefs, practices, a ...
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 Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1989) * '' Toward a Feminist Theory of the State'', Catharine MacKinnon (1989) * "What Battery Really Is",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1989) * ''Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality'', edited by Carol P. Christ 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 Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Retrieved March 17, 2013 Education Echols received her bachelor's degree from Macalester College, Minne ...
(1990) *"God Is a Woman and She Is Growing Older", Margaret Wenig (1990) *'' Journal of Women, Politics & Policy'' (1990–present) *''Mercy'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1990) *'' The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory'', Carol J. Adams (1990) *"Who Says We Haven't Made a Revolution?: A Feminist Takes Stock",
Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. Early Life and Education In 1957 Gornick received a bachelor of arts degree from City College of New York and in 1960 a master of ...
(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 Lenore Carol Blum (née Epstein, born December 18, 1942) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made pioneering contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She ...
(1991) *"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century",
Donna Haraway Donna J. Haraway is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. S ...
(1991) *'' Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'', Susan Faludi (1991) *'' 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 Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. In the early-to-mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band B ...
(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 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1991) *''
The Beauty Myth ''The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women'' is a nonfiction book by Naomi Wolf, originally published in 1990 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and William Morrow & Co (1991) in the United States. It was republished in 2002 by Harpe ...
'', Naomi Wolf (1991) *"The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles", Emily Martin (1991) *"We Learned the Wrong Lessons in Vietnam: A Feminist Issue Still",
Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors ...
, Robin Morgan,
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 ...
and
Ti-Grace Atkinson Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938), better known as Ti-Grace Atkinson, is an American radical feminist activist, writer and philosopher. Life and career Atkinson was born into a prominent Louisiana family. Named after her grandmother, Gra ...
(1991) *"With No Immediate Cause", Ntozake Shange (1991) *'' Writing War: Fiction, Gender & Memory'', Lynne Hanley (1991) *"Becoming the Third Wave",
Rebecca Walker Rebecca Walker (born November 17, 1969, as Rebecca Leventhal) is an American writer, feminist, and activist. Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publis ...
(1992) *'' Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent'', edited by Margaret Busby (1992) *'' 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 ''Possessing the Secret of Joy'' is a 1992 novel by Alice Walker. Plot summary It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel ''The Color Purple''. Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker ...
'', Alice Walker (1992) *"Power, Resistance and Science", Naomi Weisstein (1992) *"Prostitution and Male Supremacy",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1992) *''Race, Class and Gender in the U.S.'', Paula Rothenberg (1992) *" Replacements", 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 Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(1992) *''The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Opposite Sex, or the Inferior Sex'',
Carol Tavris Carol Anne Tavris (born September 17, 1944) is an American social psychologist and feminist. She has devoted her career to writing and lecturing about the contributions of psychological science to the beliefs and practices that guide people's l ...
(1992) *'' The Straight Mind and Other Essays'', Monique Wittig (1992) *''The War Against Women'',
Marilyn French Marilyn French (; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author. Life French was born in Brooklyn to E. Charles Edwards, an engineer, and Isabel Hazz Edwards, a department store clerk. In her youth, she was a jou ...
(1992) *"Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism", edited by Maxine Hanks (1992) *''Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1992) *'' Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'', Clarissa Pinkola Estes (1992) *"Are Opinions Male?",
Naomi Wolf Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist and conspiracy theorist. Following her first book ''The Beauty Myth'' (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave ...
(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 Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist and conspiracy theorist. Following her first book ''The Beauty Myth'' (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave ...
(1993) *"In Your Blood, Live: Re-visions of a Theology of Purity",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(1993) *"Not Just Bad Sex",
Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949) is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abo ...
(1993) *'' Only Words'', Catharine MacKinnon (1993) *''The Feminist Chronicles'' (1993),
Toni Carabillo Toni Carabillo (March 26, 1926 – October 28, 1997) was an American feminist, graphic designer, and historian. She was born Virginia Ann Carabillo on March 26, 1926, in Jackson Heights, Queens. She graduated from Middlebury College in 1948 an ...
, June Csidan and
Judith Meuli Judith Meuli (January 15, 1938 – December 14, 2007) was an American feminist, activist and scientist. Early life and education Judith Meuli was born in 1938 to parents Isabel Meuli (''née'' Dresel) and Earle Meuli in Chippewa Falls, Wis ...
*'' The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism'', L. Susan Brown (1993) *''Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body'',
Susan Bordo Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...
(1993) *'' Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women'', Alice Walkernand Pratibha Parmar (1993) *'' Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings'', Miriam Schneir (1994) *''Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing'',
Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology. Her teaching and her writings helped est ...
(1994) *''Gender Outlaw'',
Kate Bornstein Katherine Vandam Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist. In 1986, Bornstein started identifiying as gender non-conforming and has stated "I don't call myself a woman, ''an ...
(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 ''Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women'' (1994) is a non-fiction book by Australian journalist Geraldine Brooks (writer), Geraldine Brooks, based on her experiences among Muslim women of the Middle East. It was an internationa ...
'', Geraldine Brooks (1994) *''Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience'', edited by George D. Smith (1994) *'' Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature'', Dorothy Allison (1994) *"Suffragette City: The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band", Ben Kim (1994) *''The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870'', Gerda Lerner (1994) *"The Unremembered: Searching for Women at the Holocaust Memorial Museum",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1994) *"Why Women Need Freedom from Religion", Annie Laurie Gaylor (1994) *''
Feminist Economics Feminist economics is the critical study of economics and economies, with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis. Feminist economic researchers include academics, activists, policy theorists, and practitio ...
'' (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 Dorothy Fadiman (born June 3, 1939 in Pennsylvania) is an American documentary filmmaker, director, and producer. Early life Fadiman was raised in Pennsylvania. Education Fadiman attended University of Pittsburgh and Penn State, and receiv ...
(1995) *''Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation'', edited by Barbara Findlen (1995) *''Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma'',
Ana Castillo Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is known for her experimen ...
(1995) *"Memoirs of a Feminist Therapist", Joan Saks Berman (1995) *''Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace'',
Dale Spender Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)''The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P–Z'' edited by John Arnold, John Hay (page 409). is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of an ...
(1995) *"On the Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a Strictly Personal Perspective", Joreen (1995) *"Plenary Address of the Fourth World Conference on Women",
Bella Abzug Bella Savitzky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steine ...
(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 Ama Ata Aidoo, ''née'' Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1942) is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was the Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings administration. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation t ...
,
Ritu Menon Ritu Menon is an Indian feminist, writer and publisher. Career In 1984, Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India's first exclusively feminist publishing house, along with Urvashi Butalia, her longtime collaborator. In 2003, ''Kali for Women'' shu ...
,
Ninotchka Rosca Ninotchka Rosca (born December 17, 1946, in the Philippines) is a Filipina feminist, author, journalist, and human rights activist. best known for her 1988 novel '' State of War'' and for her activism, especially during the Martial Law dictatorsh ...
, 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 Susan J. Douglas is an American feminist columnist, and cultural critic who writes about gender issues, media criticism and American politics. She has published five books on American history, and is currently Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor ...
(1994) *''Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations'', Carol J. Adams and
Josephine Donovan Josephine Donovan (born 1941) is an American scholar of comparative literature who is a professor emerita of English in the Department of English at the University of Maine, Orono. Her research and expertise has covered feminist theory, feminist ...
(1994) *''Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust'', R. Ruth Linden (1995) *"Women and Aids",
Donna Shalala Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Preside ...
(1995) *"Women and Health Security",
Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
(1995) *''Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought'', Beverly Guy-Sheftall (ed.) (1995) *"A Good Rape",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1996) *"Barred From the Bar - A History of Women and the Legal Profession", Hedda Garza (1996) *"Beijing Report: The Fourth World Conference on Women" from ''off our backs'', Joreen (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 ''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores c ...
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Eve Ensler V, formerly Eve Ensler (; born May 25, 1953), is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play ''The Vagina Monologues''.
(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 Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(1997) *''Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War against Women'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1997) *''Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy'', Susan Hogan (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 Ann Rosamund Oakley (née Titmuss; born 17 January 1944) is a British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is professor and founder-director of the Social Science Research Unit at the UCL Institute of Education of the University College Lon ...
(1997) *'' And Who Will Make the Chapatis?'', edited by Bishakha Datta (1998) *'' Cunt: A Declaration of Independence'', Inga Muscio (1998) *"Dear Bill and Hillary",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1998) *''Letters to a Young Feminist'', Phyllis Chesler (1998) *"Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism", Martha E. Gimenez (1998) *"Mother Wit",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(1998) *'' Saman'', Ayu Utami (1998) *"Seneca Falls Anniversary Speech",
Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
(1998) *''Sex and Social Justice'',
Martha Nussbaum Martha Craven Nussbaum (; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosop ...
(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 Sarojini Sahoo (born 4 January 1956) is an Indian feminist writer, a columnist in ''The New Indian Express'' and an associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine ''Indian AGE.'' She has been enlisted among '' 25 Exceptional Women of India' ...
(1998) *"When Men Were Men",
bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on ...
(1998) *"Abortion and the Underground", Cheryl Terhor (1999) *"Ain't She Still a Woman?",
bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on ...
(1999) *"Are Women Human?",
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(1999) *"Are You Listening, Hillary? President Rape Is Who He Is",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1999) *"Chicago Was at Center of Feminist Activities", Angela Bonavoglia (1999) *"CWLU Work Groups and Personal Transformation", Sue Davenport, Paula Kamen, and the CWLU Herstory Committee (1999) *''Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire'', Sonia Shah (ed.) (1999) *''Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics'',
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(1999) *"Feminism, Moralism, and That Woman",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(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 Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(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 Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on ...
(1999) *''Pratibandi'',
Sarojini Sahoo Sarojini Sahoo (born 4 January 1956) is an Indian feminist writer, a columnist in ''The New Indian Express'' and an associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine ''Indian AGE.'' She has been enlisted among '' 25 Exceptional Women of India' ...
(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 CWLU Herstory Committee (1999) *"The Day I Was Drugged and Raped",
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(1999) *"The Green Highway Theater Press Release oncerning 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 Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on ...
(2000) *''
Feminist Theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and femin ...
'' (2000–present) *''Manifesta: Young women, Feminism and the Future'',
Jennifer Baumgardner Jennifer Baumgardner (born 1970) is a writer, activist, filmmaker, and lecturer whose work explores abortion, sex, bisexuality, rape, single parenthood, and women's power. From 2013 to 2017, she served as the Executive Director/Publisher at The Fe ...
and
Amy Richards Amelia "Amy" Richards (born February 9, 1970) is an American activist, organizer, writer, television producer, feminist, and art historian, currently residing in New York. She graduated from Barnard College in 1992. Richards has appeared on Fox ...
(2000) *'' Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(2000) *"Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Mystique of the Sheikh", Annie Laurie Gaylor (2000) *"The Color of Violence Against Women", Angela Davis (2000) *''The Frailty Myth'', Colette Dowling (2000) *'' The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America'',
Ruth Rosen Ruth Rosen is a historian of gender and society, a journalist, and a Professor Emerita at University of California Davis. She is the editor of ''The Maimie Papers'', a New York Times Notable Book in 1978; the author of ''The Lost Sisterhood: Pros ...
(2000) *'' Feminist Media Studies'' (2001–present) *"As a Feminist, This "Jane" Was Far from Plain", Chris Lombardi and Ruth Surgal (2002) *''
Feminist Africa ''Feminist Africa'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that addresses feminist topics from an "African continental perspective". It is published by the African Gender Institute (University of Cape Town). Its founding editor-in-chief is Amina Mam ...
'' (2002–present) *"Feminist Judaism: Past and Future",
Rachel Adler Rachel Adler (born Ruthelyn Rubin; July 2, 1943) is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender at Hebrew Union College, at the Los Angeles campus. Adler was one of the first theologians to integrate feminist perspectives and concer ...
(2002) *'' Fingersmith'', Sarah Waters (2002) *''Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant'',
Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...
(2002) *''Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women'',
Madhu Kishwar Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a commentator.
(2002) *'' Stolen Sunshine: A Woman's Quest for Herself'', Smita Jhavar (2002) *"The Logic of Experience: Reflections on the Development of Sexual Harassment Law",
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(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: 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: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture'', Ariel Levy (2005) *''Integrating Ecofeminism Globalization and World Religions'',
Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology. Her teaching and her writings helped est ...
(2005) *"Lust Horizons",
Ellen Willis Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National ...
(2005) *''Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography'', edited by Rebecca Whisnant and Christine Stark (2004) *'' 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 Susan J. Douglas is an American feminist columnist, and cultural critic who writes about gender issues, media criticism and American politics. She has published five books on American history, and is currently Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor ...
with Meredith Michaels (2005) *''Women's Lives, Men's Laws'',
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(2005) *''Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big'', Mary Daly (2006) *''Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues'',
Catharine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, ...
(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 ''Tales from the Town of Widows'' is a 2007 lyrical novel written by Colombian-born author James Cañón. It tells the story of Mariquita, a mountain village that is forever altered the day a band of communist guerrillas forcibly recruits all bu ...
'', 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 Josephine Donovan (born 1941) is an American scholar of comparative literature who is a professor emerita of English in the Department of English at the University of Maine, Orono. Her research and expertise has covered feminist theory, feminist ...
(2007) *'' The Terror Dream'', Susan Faludi (2007) *''Whipping Girl'',
Julia Serano Julia Michelle Serano (; born 1967) is an American writer, musician, spoken-word performer, trans– bi activist, and biologist. She is known for her transfeminist books ''Whipping Girl'' (2007), ''Excluded'' (2013), and ''Outspoken'' (2016). ...
(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 ''IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal providing a forum in bioethics for feminist thought and debate. The journal (pronounced "I-Jay-Fab") is a publication of the Interna ...
'' (2008–present) *"Men Explain Things to Me", Rebecca Solnit (2008) *''
Yes Means Yes ''Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape'' is a feminist non-fiction book edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, published in 2008. The book was one of ''Publishers Weekly'' 99 Best Books of 2009 and in ...
'', Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (2008) *"Women Are Never Front-Runners",
Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem (; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a c ...
(2008) *''Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws: Battling Stereotypes'',
Madhu Kishwar Madhu Purnima Kishwar is an Indian academic and a commentator.
(2008) *''Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton'', Duchess Harris (2009) *'' Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide'', Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2009) *"Paycheck Feminism",
Karen Kornbluh Karen Kornbluh (born 1963) served as U.S. Ambassador to the OECD under President Barack Obama and as a senior official at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Communications Commission under President Bill Clinton. She is an expert o ...
and Rachel Homer (2009) *''The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World,''
Michelle Goldberg Michelle Goldberg (born 1975)"Michelle Goldberg". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, January 28, 2017. is an American journalist and author, and an op-ed columnist for '' The New York Ti ...
(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 James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he previously served as th ...
(2009) *''Broken Women of the Mountains'', Nida Mahmoed (2009)


2010s

*'' 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 Courtney E. Martin (born December 31, 1979) is an American feminist, author, speaker, and social and political activist. She is known for writing books, speaking at universities throughout the nation, and for co-editing the feminist blog, F ...
and J. Courtney Sullivan (2010) *'' 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 Susan J. Douglas is an American feminist columnist, and cultural critic who writes about gender issues, media criticism and American politics. She has published five books on American history, and is currently Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor ...
(2010) *'' 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 Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, '' Going Bovine'', and '' The Diviners''. Early life Martha Elizabeth Bray was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Her fathe ...
(2011) *'' Cinderella Ate My Daughter'', Peggy Orenstein (2011) *'' How to Be a Woman'', Caitlin Moran (2011) *''philoSOPHIA'' (2011–present) *''Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice'', edited by Lisa A. Kemmerer (2011) *''A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing'',
Alix Kates Shulman Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Qu ...
(2012) *''Cinnamon'', Samar Yazbek (2012) *''Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self'',
Kajsa Ekis Ekman Kajsa "Ekis" Ekman is a Swedish author and journalist. She has written four books, translated into several languages, about capitalism, economic crises, and women's rights. She lectures internationally on prostitution and surrogacy. She is a regul ...
(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: Essays'', Roxane Gay (2014) *''
Men Explain Things to Me ''Men Explain Things to Me'' is a 2014 essay collection by the American writer Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books. The book originally contained seven essays, the main essay of which was cited in ''The New Republic'' as the piece that " ...
'', Rebecca Solnit (2014) *''
We Should All Be Feminists ''We Should All Be Feminists'' is a book-length essay by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. First published in 2014 by Fourth Estate, it talks about the definition of feminism for the 21st century. The essay was adapted from Adichie' ...
'', Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014) *''American Housewife: Stories'', Helen Ellis (2015) *''
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl In politics, humanitarian aid, and the social sciences, hunger is defined as a condition in which a person does not have the physical or financial capability to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs for a sustained period. In t ...
'', Carrie Brownstein (2015) *''Neoliberalismo Sexual: El Mito de la Libre Elección'', Ana de Miguel (2015) *''
Nimona ''Nimona'' is a fantasy graphic novel by ND Stevenson, an American cartoonist. The story follows Nimona, a shapeshifter who joins the villain Ballister Blackheart in his plans to destroy the over-controlling Institute. Blackheart tries to opera ...
'', ND Stevenson (2015) *''Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology'', edited by Ann VanderMeer and
Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The t ...
(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 ''Kim Ji-young, Born 1982'' () is a novel by Cho Nam-Joo. A former scriptwriter for TV programs, Cho took two months to write the story as according to her, the title character "Kim Ji-young's life isn't much different from the one I have lived. T ...
'' 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 Jude Ellison Sady Doyle (formerly Sady Doyle; born June 11, 1982) is an American feminist author. Profile In 2005, Doyle graduated from Eugene Lang College. He founded the blog Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to ''Tiger Beat'') in 2008. ...
, 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 Jill Nicole Filipovic (born August 3, 1983) is an American author and lawyer. Education Originally from the Seattle area, Filipovic attended Shorewood High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and politics and a minor in gender a ...
(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 (2017) *''The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy'',
Cynthia Enloe Cynthia Holden Enloe (born July 16, 1938) is a feminist writer, theorist, and professor. She is best known for her work on gender and militarism and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. She has also had major i ...
(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 Jude Ellison Sady Doyle (formerly Sady Doyle; born June 11, 1982) is an American feminist author. Profile In 2005, Doyle graduated from Eugene Lang College. He founded the blog Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to ''Tiger Beat'') in 2008. ...
(2019) *'' New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent'', edited by
Margaret Busby Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisherJazzmine Breary"Le ...
(2019) *''Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation'',
Renate Klein Renate Klein (born 5 April 1945) is an Australian academic, writer, publisher, and feminist health activist. Klein was an associate professor in women's studies at Deakin University until her retirement in 2006, and with Dr Susan Hawthorne, she co ...
(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 children's literature is the writing of children's literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in ...
* 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 This is an alphabetical list of female poets who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. ''Nota bene'': Authors of poetry are the focus of this list, though many of these writers ...
* List of female poets *
List of feminist comic books This is a list of feminist comic books and graphic novels. A *''A-Force'' by G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennet, and Jorge Molina. A Marvel Comics series about an all-female team of Avengers. *'' Anya's Ghost'' by Vera Brosgol. Graphic no ...
*
List of feminist poets This is a list of feminist poets. Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second-wav ...
* List of women rhetoricians *
List of women writers * List of women writers (A–L) * List of women writers (M–Z) See also * Feminist literary criticism *Feminist science fiction *Feminist theory * Gender in science fiction * List of biographical dictionaries of female writers * List of early- ...
* 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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