List of feminist literature

This is a list of important contributions to the literature of feminism, listed by year of first publication.

15th century

• The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pisan (ca. 1405)
• The Treasure of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pisan (ca. 1405)
• The Tale of Joan of Arc, Christine de Pisan (1429)

16th century

• Her Protection for Women, Jane Anger (1589)

17th century

• The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

1791

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze)

1798

• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

1861

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs

1869

• The Woman with Prospects, Concepción Arenal (Seville, Spain)

1879

• A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen

1886

• Cathy the Caryatid (Polish: Kaśka Kariatyda), novel by Gabriela Zapolska

1883

• Augusta Bender (Smith College located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is today the largest women's college in the United States, 1891):
  • Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland 1883 - Gesammelte Werke. Odenwälder, Buchen. ca. 360 S. ISBN
  • Ein deutsches Mädchen in Amerika Novelle 1893 engl. / 1901 germ.

• The Woman in her House, Concepción Arenal (Madrid, Spain)

1899

• The Awakening, Kate Chopin

1929

• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

1938

• Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf

1949

• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

1963

• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, Penguin Books

1967

• The Radical Women Manifesto: Theory, Program and Structure

1970

• The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer
• Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
• The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone
• Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1970.

1973

• Beyond God the Father, Mary Daly

1974

• "Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?", Sherry B. Ortner

1975

• “Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness,” Sandra Bartky
• Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller
• The Female Imagination, Patricia Meyer Spacks
• "The Traffic of Women," Gayle Rubin
• The Female Man, Joanna Russ

1976

• Lover, Bertha Harris
• Literary Women, Ellen Moers
• Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Michele Wallace
• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich
• When God Was A Woman, Merlin Stone

1977

• A Literature of Their Own, Elaine Showalter

1979

• The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
• Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, Susan Griffin
• Berk, Sarah Fenstermaker, ed. Women and Household Labor, Sage

1981

• Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
• Gossett, Hattie. "This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color"

1982

• In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan

1983

• This Bridge Called My Back, Gloria Anzaldúa & Cherrie Moraga
• Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis
• The Politics of Reality, Marilyn Frye (especially "Oppression")
• Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria Steinem
• Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, ISBN 0-394-53438-7

1984

• Pure Lust, Mary Daly
• Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks, ISBN 0-89608-614-3

1985

• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
• French, Marilyn. "Beyond Power"; "War Against Women"; "From Eve to Dawn", a 3-volume history of women

1986

• Feminist Studies, Critical Studies, Teresa de Lauretis
• Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Select Prose (1979-1985), Adrienne Rich (especially "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence")

1987

• Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa
• Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

1988

• Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value, Sarah Lucia Hoagland

1989

• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender), Judith Butler
• Gossett, Hattie. "Presenting sister noblues"

1990

• Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
• Echols, Alice. "Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975", University of Minnesota Press 1990

1991

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
• Sexual/Textual Politics, Toril Moi
• The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf

1992

• Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem
• Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Race, Class and Gender in the U.S., Paula Rothenberg
• Tavris, Carol. "The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Opposite Sex, or the Inferior Sex". Simon and Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-66274-0
• Faludi, Susan. "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women". 1992 (ISBN 0-385-42507-4)

1993

• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo
• Fire With Fire : The New Female Power And How It Will Change the 21st Century, Naomi Wolf

1994

• Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
• Schneir, Miriam. "Feminism : The Essential Historical Writings", New York: Vintage 1994
• Lerner, Gerda. "The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy", Oxford University Press 1994

1995

• Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation, ed. Barbara Findlen
• To Be Real, ed. Rebecca Walker
• Wertheim, Margaret. "Pythagoras' Trousers - God, Physics, and the Gender Wars", W.W. Norton & Co. (1995, 1997)

1996

• Sommers, Christina Hoff. "Who Stole Feminism? - How women have betrayed women" (1996) (ISBN 0-684-80156-6)
• Silvers, Anita and Sterling Harwood, "Womb for Rent: Surrogate Motherhood and the Case of Baby M," in Sterling Harwood, ed., Business as Ethical and Business as Usual (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1996), pp. 190-193.

1997

• The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oyeronke Oyewumi
• Mitchell, Julie and Ann Oakley (eds.). Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlash, New Press, 1997. ISBN 1-56584-385-1

1998

• Upanibesh, Sarojini Sahoo - the first attempt in the literature of the Oriya language of India to focus on sexuality as a part of social revolt by a woman.
• Jacobson, Joyce P. "The Economics of Gender" 1998. (ISBN 0-631-20726-0)

1999

• Stiffed : The Betrayal of the American Man, Susan Faludi
• the whole woman, Germaine Greer

2000

• Feminism Is For Everybody : Passionate Politics, bell hooks
• ManifestA : young women, feminism, and the future, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
• Slut! : Growing Up Female With A Bad Reputation, Leora Tanenbaum
• Hill Collins, Patricia, "Black Feminist Thought. Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment", Second Edition, Routledge 2000

2002

• Pink Think : Becoming A Woman In Many Uneasy Lessons, Lynn Peril

2004

• Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism, Astrid Henry

2005

• Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy
• Walters, Margaret. "Feminism: A very short introduction". Oxford 2005 (ISBN 0-19-280510-X)

2006

• Stripped: Inside The Lives of Exotic Dancers, Bernadette Barton
• del Giorgio, J.F., The Oldest Europeans:Who are we? Where do we come from? What made European women different?.A.J.Place 2006 (ISBN 980-6898-00-1)

See also

• List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
• List of female poets
• List of feminist poets
• List of women novelists before Jane Austen
• List of women rhetoricians
• List of women writers
• Women's writing in English

Resources

• "Feminist Theory and Criticism." Accessed August 18, 2005.