Suffragist who fought for women's voting rights, known for her 1892 speech Solitude of Self, her autobiography "Eighty Years and More" and "The Woman's Bible.". Don't let the word "feminist" deter you—these books are required reading for anybody who believes in equality, freedom, and women's rights. Sappho wrote odes to the goddesses and lyric poetry, whose style gave name to Sapphic meter. Contributors include important feminist writers such as Naomi Littlebear Morena, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith and the Combahee River Collective. The sister of Anne and Emily Bronte, Charlotte was the last survivor of six siblings, the children of a parson and his wife, who died in childbirth. "Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights", "Manifesto of the [Japanese] League for the Realization of Women's Suffrage" (1924). When I came across the history podcast Footnoting History, I knew I found my niche.I listened to everything from an analysis of Jane Austen’s novels to the Victorians’ chilling Christmas traditions, and excitedly discussed these historical tales with my boyfriend. "Sexuality, pornography, and method: 'Pleasure under Patriarchy'". 1977, The Prostitute: Paradigmatic Woman - Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation, Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture, Consciousness-Raising - Women's Liberation Movement, Full Employment: Toward Economic Equality For Women, National Black Feminist - Women's Liberation Movement, Why Women Need the Goddess - by Carol P. Christ, Polare 22: X: A Fabulous Child's Story | The Gender Centre Inc, Iamcuriousblue: Ellen Willis "Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life", "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence", "What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? "Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Against the State Regulation of Vice". | Articles about the CWLU, "Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Mystique of the Sheikh", Angela Davis, The Color of Violence Against Women, As a Feminist, This 'Jane' Was Far From Plain | Text Memoirs, FEMINIST JUDAISM: Past and Future by Rachel Adler, On anniversary of women's suffrage, equality still elusive | The Progressive, The Feminist Ghost at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Lust Horizons - Page 1 - Specials - New York - Village Voice, Understanding and Ending ECT: A Feminist Imperative, Against Sexual Apartheid, by Maryam Namazie, The words of God do not justify cruelty to women | Jimmy Carter | Comment is free | The Observer, Nineteenth-Century American Suffragists in the News, Complete Works of Camilla Collett, Norwegian feminist, 1960s: National Women's Liberation Conference, 1960s: 1960s Photos and Description of WITCH, by Joreen, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_feminist_literature&oldid=994282688, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from January 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Women's Petition to the [French] National Assembly" (1789). The existence of inequalities between men and women are not natural but social taboo. "An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New-York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education". The following is a list of feminist literature, 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. 1976, Women's Liberation Builds Strong Bodies in Many Ways, "A Black Feminist Statement - The Feminist eZine", Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea, Marlene Dixon. "How Can a Little Girl Like You Teach a Big Class of Men?". Her name was placed in BBC’s list of Greatest Bengalis of all Time in 2004. "Sexism", Gloria González, Field Marshal, "The Housewife's Moment of Truth", Jane O'Reilly (1971). "Benjo Kara no Kaiho", in English "Liberation from the Toilet", "Erosu Kaihō Sengen", in English "Liberation from Eros,". It grows through imaginative interdisciplinary work and critical political engagements. Feminist and transcendentalist with strong family ties to Massachusetts, Louisa May Alcott is best known for her 1868 novel about four sisters, "Little Women," based on an idealized version of her own family. "Women on the Social Science Faculties since 1892 (at the University of Chicago)", "'Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men Too" from the, "Women's Lib Organizations", Karen Durbin, from WIN (1970), "Women’s Lib: The War on ‘Sexism’", Helen Dudar (1970). "Change and Continuity for Women at the 1996 Republican and Democratic Conventions". One of the most popular British poets of the Victorian era, Browning is best known for her "Sonnets from the Portuguese," a collection of love poems she wrote secretly during her courtship with fellow poet Robert Browning. Canadian writer whose early childhood was spent living in the wilderness of Ontario. "The Logic of Experience: Reflections on the Development of Sexual Harassment Law". "What's In a Name? This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, longtime American feminist, and prominent lesbian. What is Socialist Feminism? "Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States", "An Appeal to the Men of New Zealand", Femina (pen name of, "The Need of Liberal Divorce Laws" from the, "Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association" (1892). We said: In this award-winning memoir, Yrsa Daley-Ward – poet, model and activist – shares the moving and heartbreaking story of how a childhood spent in the north-west of England became an adulthood in which she discovered the power and fear of sexuality. An Answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouve, Comte, and Other Modern Innovators". "Womb for Rent: Surrogate Motherhood and the Case of Baby M". "The Subjugation of Women Under Capitalism: The Bourgeois Morality. Chilean American writer known for writing about female protagonists in a literary style known as magical realism. The first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1993, Toni Morrison's best-known work is her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Beloved," about a formerly enslaved woman who is haunted by her daughter's ghost. Dedicated to all noble-minded women by an appreciative member of the other sex, Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights by Alexandra Kollontai 1919, Communism and the Family by Alexandra Kollontai, Alexandra Kollontai 1920. International Womens' Day, Prostitution and ways of fighting it by Alexandra Kollontai, The Labour of Women in the Evolution of the Economy by, American Rhetoric: Margaret Sanger - The Morality of Birth Control, "Manifesto of the League for the Realization of Women's Suffrage", in English, Elise Johnson McDougald on "The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation", A room of one’s own, by Virginia Woolf : chapter1, Three Guineas, by Virginia Woolf : chapter1, "Women as a Minority Group - Helen Mayer Hacker", The Matriarchal-Brotherhood by Evelyn Reed 1954, The Myth of Women's Inferiority by Evelyn Reed 1954, http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/sites/dlib.nyu.edu.undercover/files/documents/uploads/editors/Show-A%20Bunny%27s%20Tale-Part%20One-May%201963.pdf, http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/sites/dlib.nyu.edu.undercover/files/documents/uploads/editors/Show-A%20Bunny%27s%20Tale-Part%20Two-June%201963.pdf, A Study of the Feminine Mystique by Evelyn Reed 1964, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the Movement, Free Woman by Heather Dean (1966) - Hippyland, The National Organization for Women's 1966 Statement of Purpose, Women: The Longest Revolution Juliet Mitchell 1966, Het onbehagen bij de vrouw, Joke Kool-Smits, Notes from the First Year - Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, "Christian Marriage: Patriarchy or Partnership? "An Argument for Black Women's Liberation As a Revolutionary Force", "An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights" from, Proposed Statement of Political Principles (1969), "Sweet 16 to Saggy 36: Saga of American Womanhood", Cleveland Radical Women's Group (1969), "The Last of the Red Hot Mammas, Or, the Liberation of Women as Performed by the Inmates of the World" (1969). American writer whose work highlighted gender inequalities. Her best-known works are "Three Lives" (1909) and "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". "The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise". "Items of Interest from Other Countries". "Whatever Happened to Republican Feminists?". 1976), "Women Talk Back", Secret Storm (ca. "Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring". "A Letter to the Queen On Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill". by, "A Response to "Why I am Opposed to Female Suffrage" by. "Full Employment: Toward Economic Equality For Women". "Consistent democracy. Millett pointed out how the three authors … Reader, Lesbians in Revolt - Women's Liberation Movement, NOW Press Release on Gender Discrimination-1972. Women, Culture and Politics by Angela Davis "Analysis of Chicago Women's Liberation School", "A Statement About Female Liberation" (1971), "Equal Only When Obligated", Deborah Miller (1971), "Feminism: Old Wave and New Wave", Ellen DuBois (1971), "Free Abortion is Every Woman's Right: Statement of the, "High School Women Ask: What is Women's Liberation?" Russian poet recognized both for her accomplished verse techniques and for her complex yet principled opposition to the injustices, repressions, and persecutions that took place in the early Soviet Union. "Women in a Socialist Society", Women's Union, "Letter from the Abortion Defense Fund" (1973), "Me and Them Sirens Running All Night Long", Susan Cavin (1973), "Posters that Express the Reality of Being a Woman", Linda Winer (1973), "The Jane Song", Elizabeth Roberts (1973). "What Would a Non-Sexist City Look Like? | Consciousness, Is Biology Woman's Destiny? It's believed that Charlotte heavily edited Anne's and Emily's work after their deaths. "Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII". Her works include "O Pioneers!" Sex or Hey I Thought This Was Supposed to be Fun! "Men and Women; Brief Hypothesis concerning the Difference in their Genius", "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). Black Women and Feminism, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, For Love or Money, a Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, Right Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, The Man of Reason: 'Male' and 'Female' in Western Philosophy, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender), Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent, Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism, Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, Stolen Sunshine: A Woman's Quest for Herself, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, NO EXCUSES: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, List of early-modern women playwrights (UK), The Project Gutenberg ebook of Le tresor de la cité des dames, by Christine de Pisan, Joan of Arc - Maid of Heaven - Song of Joan of Arc by Christine de Pisan, Promenoir+ de Monsieur de Montaigne . It has risen and fallen with the tides of feminism. ", "Women in Saudi Arabia Too Have a Dream", Mody Al-Khalaf (2004), "Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)", Terry Martin Hekker (2006), "Women in Combat: Is the Current Policy Obsolete?" Mexican American writer is best known for her novel "The House on Mango Street" (1984) and her short story collection "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories" (1991). - The Atlantic, A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor;" by Marie E. Zakrzewska, Female Teaching: Or, The Rev. May, "Literature.org - The Online Literature Library", Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1848 - We Now Demand Our Right to Vote, https://web.archive.org/web/20000823085749/http://www.neiu.edu/~thscherm/eos/w%26n.htm. Diana Walker / Hulton Archive / Getty Images. Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" is one of the most-read and most-analyzed works of English literature. "What Concrete Steps Can Be Taken to Further the Homophile Movement", "The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational Structure", by, "Black Women in Poverty", various authors (1968), "Burial of Weeping Womanhood", Radical Women's Group (1968). "The Lesbian and God-the-Father, or, All the Church Needs Is a Good Lay . by Evelyn Reed 1970, Betty Friedan: Judge Carswell And The "Sex Plus" Doctrine, Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation (wlmms01039) - Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture - Duke Libraries, Pamela Newman, Take a Good Look at Our Problems, "The Bitch Manifesto - Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement", Words of fire: an anthology of African-American feminist thought - Google Boeken, The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm by Anne Koedt, The Politics of Housework - The Feminist eZine, The Role of Government Agencies in Gaining Equal Rights for Women | Work, Woman-Identified Woman - Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement - Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon - Google Boeken, What is Women's Liberation? "Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women Considered".