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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)
• The Superior Excellence of Women Over Men, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

17th century

• The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
• Égalité des hommes et des femmes, 1622 and Grief des dames, 1626, Marie Le Jars de Gournay
• De l'égalité des deux sexes, François Poullain de la Barre, 1673

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

1828

• The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress, Elizabeth Caroline Grey

1832

• Indiana, George Sand
• Valentine, George Sand

1833

• Lélia, George Sand

1834

• Jacques, George Sand

1845

• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Margaret Fuller

1847

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

1861

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

1869

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

Little women

1872

• The Adventures of a Woman in Search of her Rights, Florence Claxton

1874

• Papa's Own Girl, Marie Howland

1875

• Blackwell, Antoinette (1976) [first published 1875]. The Sexes Throughout Nature. Hyperion Press. ISBN 088355349X. 

1879

• A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen

1880–81

• Mizora, Mary Lane

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)

1886

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

1889

• New Amazonia, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

1892

• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1893

• The New Woman, Bolesław Prus
• Unveiling a Parallel, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones & Ella Merchant

1898

• The Storm, Kate Chopin

1899

• Arqtiq, Anna Adolph
• The Awakening, Kate Chopin

1905

• The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

1912

• Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw

1929

• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

1935

• Women in Music, edited by Frédérique Petrides

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

1968

• SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas

1969

• Les Guérillères

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.

1971

• The First Sex, Elizabeth Gould Davis
• Woman's Estate, Juliet Mitchell

1973

• Beyond God the Father, Mary Daly
• Our Bodies, Ourselves

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
• Kinflicks, Lisa Alther

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
• Right Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females, Andrea Dworkin
• 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
• Feminism and Anthropology, Henrietta Moore

1989

• A Vindication of The Rights of Whores, Gail Pheterson(ed.)
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender), Judith Butler
• Gossett, Hattie. "Presenting sister noblues"
• Makaan, a novel by Paigham Afaqui treating female character Neera primarily as a human being and treating her being a female as a secondary aspect of her character.

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
• Dirty Weekend, Helen Zahavi

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

• "Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma, Ana Castillo
• 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

• 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

2003

• Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, Susan J. Brison

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 is originally published in Oriya as Gambhiri Ghara and later translated into English ISBN NO : 978-81-906956-2-6 , Mithya Gerosthali in Bengali , (ISBN NO :984 404 287-9) and Irunda Koodaram in Malayalam - 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.

2007

• James Cañón- Tales from the Town of Widows is a lyrical novel that tells the story of Mariquita, a mountain village that’s forever altered the day a band of communist guerrillas forcibly recruits all but three of its men. Left to fend for themselves with an ethically challenged priest, a transvestite and a withdrawn gay man, the virtual widows slowly emerge from their supporting roles as wives and daughters to become unwitting founders of a remarkable new society: an all-female utopia far greater than any revolutionary’s imagined ideal society. It was first published in 2007 by Harper Collins NY. Since, it has been published in over twenty countries and translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew, Korean and Turkish.
• Stripped: Inside The Lives of Exotic Dancers, Bernadette Barton
• Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer
• Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body, Courtney E. Martin
• 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)
• Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters, Jessica Valenti

2009

• The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, Michelle Goldberg
• Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, Alison Piepmeier
• The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women, Jessica Valenti

2010

• Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, Cordelia Fine
• Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution, Sara Marcus
• Click: When We Knew We Were Feminist, Courtney E. Martin, J. Courtney Sullivan, eds.
• Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, Jennifer L. Pozner
• Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women, Rebecca Traister

2011

• Who is Ana Mendieta?, Christine Redfern, Caro Caron, The Feminist Press at CUNY

See also

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

Resources

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