List of feminist literature

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

Contents 1 15th century 2 16th century 3 1791 4 1861 5 1869 6 1886 7 1883 8 1929 9 1938 10 1949 11 1963 12 1970 13 1973 14 1974 15 1975 16 1976 17 1977 18 1979 19 1981 20 1982 21 1983 22 1984 23 1986 24 1987 25 1988 26 1989 27 1990 28 1991 29 1992 30 1993 31 1994 32 1995 33 1997 34 1999 35 2000 36 2002 37 2004 38 2006 39 Resources

[edit] 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)

[edit] 16th century

• Her Protection for Women, Jane Anger (1589)

[edit] 1791

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

[edit] 1861

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

[edit] 1869

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

[edit] 1886

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 1929

• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

[edit] 1938

• Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf

[edit] 1949

• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

[edit] 1963

• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

[edit] 1970

• The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer
• Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
• The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone

[edit] 1973

• Beyond God the Father, Mary Daly

[edit] 1974

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1976

• 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

[edit] 1977

• A Literature of Their Own, Elaine Showalter

[edit] 1979

• The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

[edit] 1981

• Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks

[edit] 1982

• In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan

[edit] 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

[edit] 1984

• Pure Lust, Mary Daly
• Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks

[edit] 1986

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

[edit] 1987

• Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa
• Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

[edit] 1988

• Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value, Sarah Lucia Hoagland

[edit] 1989

• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender), Judith Butler

[edit] 1990

• Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins

[edit] 1991

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1994

• Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein

[edit] 1995

• Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation, ed. Barbara Findlen
• To Be Real, ed. Rebecca Walker

[edit] 1997

• The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oyeronke Oyewumi

[edit] 1999

• Stiffed : The Betrayal of the American Man, Susan Faludi

[edit] 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

[edit] 2002

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

[edit] 2004

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

[edit] 2006

• Stripped: Inside The Lives of Exotic Dancers, Bernadette Barton

[edit] Resources

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