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Feminist Literature - A Brief List

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Here's a list of feminist literature in literary history.

By Title
  • Adventure of the Black Lady - Aphra Behn
  • Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
  • Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405) - Christine de Pisan
  • Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen - Olympe de Gouges
  • Doll's House (1879) - Henrik Ibsen
  • Female Imagination (1975) - Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Feminine Mystique (1963) - Betty Friedan
  • Her Protection for Women (1589) - Jane Anger
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) - Harriet Jacobs
  • Literary Women (1976) - Ellen Moers
  • Literature of Their Own (1977) - Elaine Showalter
  • Madwoman in the Attic (1979) - Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
  • Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) - Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Room of One's Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf
  • Second Sex (1949) - Simone de Beauvoir
  • Tale of Joan of Arc (1429) - Christine de Pisan
  • Three Guineas (1938) - Virginia Woolf
  • Treasure of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405) - Christine de Pisan
  • Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Woman with Prospects (1869) - Concepción Arenal
By Date
  • The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405) - Christine de Pisan
  • The Treasure of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405) - Christine de Pisan
  • The Tale of Joan of Arc (1429) - Christine de Pisan
  • Her Protection for Women (1589) - Jane Anger
  • The Adventure of the Black Lady - Aphra Behn
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen - Olympe de Gouges
  • Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) - Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) - Harriet Jacobs
  • The Woman with Prospects (1869) - Concepción Arenal
  • A Doll's House (1879) - Henrik Ibsen
  • The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
  • A Room of One's Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf
  • Three Guineas (1938) - Virginia Woolf
  • The Second Sex (1949) - Simone de Beauvoir
  • The Feminine Mystique (1963) - Betty Friedan
  • The Female Imagination (1975) - Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Literary Women (1976) - Ellen Moers
  • A Literature of Their Own (1977) - Elaine Showalter
  • The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) - Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

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