List of feminist literature 1578567 223813812 2008-07-05T23:02:59Z Nihil novi 4062893 {{inc-lit}} {{Feminism}} 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]] ==1832== * ''[[Indiana (novel)|Indiana]]'', [[George Sand]] * ''Valentine'', [[George Sand]] ==1833== * ''[[Lélia]]'', [[George Sand]] ==1834== * ''Jacques'', [[George Sand]] ==1845== * ''[[Woman in the Nineteenth Century]]'', [[Margaret Fuller]] ==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]] ==1883== * Augusta Bender ([[Smith College]] located in [[Northampton, Massachusetts|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) ==1886== * ''[[Cathy the Caryatid]]'' ([[Polish language|Polish]]: ''Kaśka Kariatyda''), novel by [[Gabriela Zapolska]] ==1893== * ''[[The New Woman (novel)|The New Woman]]'', [[Bolesław Prus]] ==1899== * ''[[The Awakening]]'', [[Kate Chopin]] ==1905== *''[[The House of Mirth]]'', [[Edith Wharton]] ==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 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. ==1971== *Woman's Estate, [[Juliet Mitchell]] ==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 (novel)|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]] *Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. "[[This bridge called my back]]: writings by radical women of color" ==1982== *''In a Different Voice'', [[Carol Gilligan]] ==1983== *''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 *''[[How to Suppress Women's Writing]]'', [[Joanna Russ]] ==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== *''[[A Vindication of The Rights of Whores]]'', [[Gail Pheterson]](ed.) *''[[Gender Trouble|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 *[[Gerda Lerner|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== *''Pratibandi'', [[Sarojini Sahoo ]] ''ISBN NO :81-7411-253-7'' - the novel has its own credibility for the frankness of the writer to deals with the sensitive matters either it may be in politics or in sexuality in Indian (Oriya) literature . *''[[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) *''[[Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide]]'', [[Maureen Dowd]] ==2006== *[[Sarojini Sahoo ]]- ''The Dark Abode ( Gambhiri Ghara in Oriya and Mithya Gerosthali in Bengali ) '', (''ISBN NO :ISBN No :984 404 287-9'') - It is all about the providence of a woman in India, it also portrays a story how a perverted man becomes slowly as a perfect man, it describes the relation between the ‘state’ and the ‘individual’ and comes in a conclusion that ‘the state’ represents the mood and wish of a ruler and hence ‘the state’ is a form of ‘an individual’.The novel has been translated in to Bangla and published from Bangladesh in 2007. *''[[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== *"[http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/feminist_theory_and_criticism-_1.html Feminist Theory and Criticism]." Accessed August 18, 2005. [[Category:Feminism|Literature]] [[Category:Feminism books]] [[Category:Lists of writers]] [[Category:Women writers]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Feminist literature}} [[Category:Literature by women]] [[sh:Popis feminističke literature]]