List of feminist literature

15th century

• The Book of the City of Ladies
  The Book of the City of Ladies
  thumb|270px|right|Picture from The Book of the City of LadiesThe Book of the City of Ladies , or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, was Christine de Pisan's response to Jean de Meun's The Romance of the Rose. Christine combats Meun's misogynist beliefs by creating an allegorical 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
  Joan of Arc
  Saint Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII...
  
  , Christine de Pisan (1429)

16th century

• Her Protection for Women, Jane Anger
  Jane Anger
  Jane Anger was an English author of the late sixteenth century. The only evidence of her extant is Her Protection for Women, a pamphlet published in London in 1589, of which only one original copy survives...
  
   (1589)
• The Superior Excellence of Women Over Men, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, and alchemist.-Life:Agrippa was born in Cologne in 1486...
  
  

17th century

• The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn
  Aphra Behn
  Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing participated in the amatory fiction genre of British literature.-Early life:...
  
   (1640-1689)
• Égalité des hommes et des femmes, 1622 and Grief des dames, 1626, Marie Le Jars de Gournay
  Marie de Gournay
  Marie de Gournay was an admirer of Michel de Montaigne, who having read his works in her teens, travelled to meet him and eventually became his "fille d'alliance"...
  
  
• De l'égalité des deux sexes, François Poullain de la Barre
  François Poullain de la Barre
  François Poullain de la Barre , was a writer, Cartesian and feminist philosopher.-Life:...
  
  , 1673

1791

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects , written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the...
  
  , Mary Wollstonecraft
  Mary Wollstonecraft
  Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book...
  
  
• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
  Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
  The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen , also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written in 1791 by French activist and playwright Olympe de Gouges...
  
  , Olympe de Gouges
  Olympe de Gouges
  Olympe de Gouges , born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience....
  
   (born Marie Gouze)

1883

• Augusta Bender (Smith College
  Smith College
  Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
  
   located in Northampton
  Northampton, Massachusetts
  Northampton is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 28,978 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hampshire County...
  
  , Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of...
  
  , is today the largest women's college
  Women's college
  Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women...
  
   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
  Concepción Arenal
  Concepción Arenal was a Spanish feminist writer and activist.Born in Ferrol, Galicia, she excelled in literature and was the first woman to attend university in Spain...
  
   (Madrid, Spain)

• The New Woman
  The New Woman (novel)
  The New Woman is the third of four major novels by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was composed, and appeared in newspaper serialization, in 1890-93, and dealt with societal questions involving feminism.-History:...
  
  , Bolesław Prus
• Unveiling a Parallel
  Unveiling a Parallel
  Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance is a feminist science fiction and utopian novel published in 1893. The first edition of the book attributed authorship to "Two Women of the West." They were in fact Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant, writers who lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.-Genre:The novel is...
  
  , Alice Ilgenfritz Jones & Ella Merchant

• Arqtiq
  Arqtiq
  Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole is a feminist utopian adventure novel, published in 1899 by its author, Anna Adolph. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.-Genre:Arqtiq participates...
  
  , Anna Adolph
• The Awakening
  The Awakening (novel)
  The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899 . Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the...
  
  , Kate Chopin
  Kate Chopin
  Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background...
  
  

• The Female Eunuch
  The Female Eunuch
  The Female Eunuch is a book first published in 1970, which became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The author, Germaine Greer, became well known in broadcast media of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and her home of Australia...
  
  , Germaine Greer
  Germaine Greer
  Germaine Greer is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
  
  
• Sexual Politics
  Sexual Politics
  Sexual Politics is a classic feminist text written by Kate Millett, said to be "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism", and "one of the first feminist books of this decade to raise nationwide male ire"....
  
  , Kate Millett
  Kate Millett
  Kate Millett is an American feminist writer and activist. She is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.-Career:...
  
  
• The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone
  Shulamith Firestone
  Shulamith Firestone is a Jewish Canadian-born feminist. She was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism, having been a founding member of the New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists...
  
  
• Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood Is Powerful
  Sisterhood is Powerful
  Sisterhood Is Powerful , published in 1970, was one of the first widely available anthologies of early Second Wave radical feminist writings...
  
  : An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1970.

• “Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness,” Sandra Bartky
• Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller
  Susan Brownmiller
  Susan Brownmiller is an American feminist, journalist, author, and activist. She is best known for her pioneering work on the politics of rape in her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape Brownmiller argues that rape had been hitherto defined by men rather than women; and that men use,...
  
  
• The Female Imagination, Patricia Meyer Spacks
• "The Traffic of Women," Gayle Rubin
  Gayle Rubin
  Gayle S. Rubin is a cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and influential theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography and lesbian literature, as well as anthropological studies and...
  
  
• The Female Man
  The Female Man
  The Female Man is a feminist science fiction novel written by Joanna Russ. It was originally written in 1970 and first published in 1975. The book was re-released in 2000. Russ is an avid feminist and challenged sexist views during the 1970s with her novels, short stories, and nonfiction works...
  
  , Joanna Russ
  Joanna Russ
  Joanna Russ , born to teachers Evarett I. and Bertha Zinner Russis, is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire...
  
  

• Lover
  Lover (novel)
  Lover is a lesbian feminist novel by Bertha Harris, published in 1976 by Daughters, Inc., a small press dedicated to women's fiction. It is considered Harris's most ambitious work, and has been compared to Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and the stories of Jane Bowles...
  
  , Bertha Harris
  Bertha Harris
  Bertha Harris was an American lesbian novelist. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, she moved to New York City in the 1960s. She is highly regarded by critics and admirers, but her novels are less familiar to the broader public.-Career and published works:She is best known for her stylistically...
  
  
• Literary Women, Ellen Moers
• Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Michele Wallace
  Michele Wallace
  Michele Faith Wallace is a feminist author and daughter of artist Faith Ringgold. She became famous in 1979 when, at age 27, she published Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman, a book in which she criticized black nationalism and sexism...
  
  
• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the [20th] century."-Early life:...
  
  
• When God Was a Woman
  When God Was a Woman
  When God Was a Woman is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and history professor Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the UK as The Paradise Papers...
  
  , Merlin Stone
  Merlin Stone
  Merlin Stone is a sculptor and professor of art and art history, perhaps best-known for her feminist book, When God Was a Woman.-Biography:...
  
  

• The Madwoman in the Attic
  The Madwoman in the Attic
  The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, published in 1979, examines Victorian literature from a feminist perspective...
  
  , Sandra Gilbert
  Sandra Gilbert
  Dr. Sandra M. Gilbert , Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, is an influential literary critic and poet who has published widely in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism...
  
   and Susan Gubar
  Susan Gubar
  Dr. Susan D. Gubar is an American academic. Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies. She has taught at Indiana University for more than twenty years. She is co-author with Dr. Sandra M...
  
  
• The Bloody Chamber
  The Bloody Chamber
  The Bloody Chamber is an anthology of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Gollancz and won the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize. All of the stories share a common theme of being closely based upon fairytales or folk tales...
  
  , Angela Carter
  Angela Carter
  Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism and science fiction works.-Biography:...
  
  
• Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, Susan Griffin
  Susan Griffin
  Susan Griffin is an eco-feminist author. She describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac[ing] the causes of war to denial in both private and public life." She received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International...
  
  
• Berk, Sarah Fenstermaker, ed. Women and Household Labor, Sage

• Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
  Bell hooks
  Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by the pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination...
  
  
• Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. "This bridge called my back
  This Bridge Called My Back
  This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color was a ground-breaking feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. The anthology was first published in 1981 by Persephone Press, and the second edition was published in 1984 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color...
  
  : writings by radical women of color"

• Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis
  Angela Davis
  Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist and university professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis was also a notable activist during the Civil Rights Movement and a prominent member and...
  
  
• The Politics of Reality, Marilyn Frye
  Marilyn Frye
  Marilyn Frye is a philosophy professor and feminist theorist. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1969 and has taught feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of language at Michigan State University since 1974...
  
   (especially "Oppression")
• Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria Steinem
  Gloria Steinem
  Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist.Rising to national prominence as a feminist leader in 1969, Steinem was a columnist at New York magazine in the 1960s and broke ground in 1963 with an investigative report of how the women of Playboy were...
  
  
• Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, ISBN 0-394-53438-7
• How to Suppress Women's Writing
  How to Suppress Women's Writing
  How to Suppress Women's Writing is a book by Joanna Russ, published in 1983. Written in the style of an irreverent sarcastic guidebook, it explains how the author believes that women and minorities are prevented from producing written works....
  
  , Joanna Russ
  Joanna Russ
  Joanna Russ , born to teachers Evarett I. and Bertha Zinner Russis, is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire...
  
  

• Pure Lust, Mary Daly
  Mary Daly
  Mary Daly is a radical feminist philosopher and theologian. She taught at Boston College, a Jesuit-run institution, for 33 years...
  
  
• Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde
  Audre Lorde
  Audre Geraldine Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:Lorde was born in New York City to Caribbean immigrants Frederick Byron Lorde and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde, who settled in Harlem...
  
  
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
  Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
  Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center is the second book by bell hooks, published in 1984. The book confirmed her importance as a leader in radical feminist thought....
  
  , bell hooks
  Bell hooks
  Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by the pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination...
  
  , ISBN 0-89608-614-3

• The Handmaid's Tale
  The Handmaid's Tale
  The Handmaid's Tale is a feminist dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985...
  
  , Margaret Atwood
  Margaret Atwood
  Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O.Ont, FRSC is a Canadian science fiction author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
  
  
• French, Marilyn. "Beyond Power"; "War Against Women"; "From Eve to Dawn", a 3-volume history of women

• Feminist Studies, Critical Studies, Teresa de Lauretis
  Teresa de Lauretis
  Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian-born author and Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her doctorate in Modern Languages and Literatures from Bocconi University in Milan before coming to the United States...
  
  
• Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Select Prose (1979-1985), Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Rich
  Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the [20th] century."-Early life:...
  
   (especially "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence")

• Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa
• Intercourse
  Intercourse (book)
  Intercourse is a radical feminist analysis of sexual intercourse in literature and society, written by Andrea Dworkin. Intercourse is often said to argue that "all heterosexual sex is rape", based on the line from the book that says "violation is a synonym for intercourse."-Thesis:In Intercourse,...
  
  , Andrea Dworkin
  Andrea Dworkin
  Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she believed to be linked with rape and other forms of violence against women....
  
  

• A Vindication of The Rights of Whores
  A Vindication of the Rights of Whores
  A Vindication of The Rights of Whores, is an anthology edited by Gail Pheterson with a preface by Margo St. James.The book consists of the voices of a diverse group of prostitutes, Sex worker's rights activists and feminist scholars from around the world, discussing their lives and their...
  
  , Gail Pheterson(ed.)
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender)
  Gender Trouble
  Gender Trouble by Judith Butler is a highly influential book in academic feminism and queer theory. It is also the book credited with creating the germinal notion of gender performativity.- Chapter 1...
  
  , Judith Butler
  Judith Butler
  Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliott professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler...
  
  
• Gossett, Hattie. "Presenting sister noblues"

• Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
  Patricia Hill Collins
  Patricia Hill Collins, is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, former head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati and current President of the American Sociological Association Council...
  
  
• Echols, Alice. "Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975", University of Minnesota Press 1990

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
  Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
  Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women is the title of a 1991 nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi, which argues for the existence of a media driven "backlash" against the feminist advances of the 1970s...
  
  , Susan Faludi
  Susan Faludi
  Susan C. Faludi is an American journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance".-Biographical...
  
  
• Sexual/Textual Politics, Toril Moi
  Toril Moi
  Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway...
  
  
• The Beauty Myth
  The Beauty Myth
  The Beauty Myth, published in 1991, is a book by Naomi Wolf. It examines beauty as a demand and as a judgment upon women. Subtitled How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Wolf examines how modern conceptions of women's beauty impact the spheres of employment, culture, religion, sexuality,...
  
  , Naomi Wolf
  Naomi Wolf
  Naomi Wolf is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third-wave of the feminist movement...
  
  

• Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem
  Gloria Steinem
  Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist.Rising to national prominence as a feminist leader in 1969, Steinem was a columnist at New York magazine in the 1960s and broke ground in 1963 with an investigative report of how the women of Playboy were...
  
  
• Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  Clarissa Pinkola Estés
  Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. is an American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in a now nearly vanished oral and ethnic tradition. She grew up in a rural village, population 600, near the Great Lakes. Of Mexican mestiza and Magyar heritages, she comes from immigrant and...
  
  
• 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)

• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo
  Susan Bordo
  Susan Bordo is a modern feminist philosopher known for her contributions to the field of contemporary cultural studies, particularly in the area of “body studies.”-Overview:...
  
  
• Fire With Fire : The New Female Power And How It Will Change the 21st Century, Naomi Wolf
  Naomi Wolf
  Naomi Wolf is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third-wave of the feminist movement...
  
  

• Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
  Kate Bornstein
  Kate Bornstein is an American author, playwright, performance artist, transsexual woman and gender theorist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Schneir, Miriam. "Feminism : The Essential Historical Writings", New York: Vintage 1994
• Lerner, Gerda
  Gerda Lerner
  Gerda Lerner is a historian, author and teacher. She is a professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a visiting scholar at Duke University...
  
  . "The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy", Oxford University Press 1994

• Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation, ed. Barbara Findlen
• To Be Real, ed. Rebecca Walker
  Rebecca Walker
  Rebecca Walker is an American feminist and writer. She has been named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 future leaders of America.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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

• Upanibesh, Sarojini Sahoo
  Sarojini Sahoo
  Sarojini Sahoo is an Indian feminist writer who has won the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award , the Jhankar Award , the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award, and the Prajatantra Award....
  
   - the first attempt in the literature of the Oriya language
  Oriya language
  Odia or Oriya is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is mainly spoken in the Indian state of Orissa. The language is also one of the many official languages of India.- Overview :...
  
   of India
  India
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
  
   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)

• Pratibandi, Sarojini Sahoo
  Sarojini Sahoo
  Sarojini Sahoo is an Indian feminist writer who has won the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award , the Jhankar Award , the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award, and the Prajatantra Award....
  
    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
  Susan Faludi
  Susan C. Faludi is an American journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance".-Biographical...
  
  
• the whole woman, Germaine Greer
  Germaine Greer
  Germaine Greer is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
  
  

• Feminism Is For Everybody : Passionate Politics, bell hooks
  Bell hooks
  Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by the pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination...
  
  
• ManifestA : young women, feminism, and the future, Jennifer Baumgardner
  Jennifer Baumgardner
  Jennifer Baumgardner is an author and third-wave feminist activist.-Early and personal life:Baumgardner grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1992. Subsequently, she moved to New York City where she took a job writing for Ms....
  
   and Amy Richards
  Amy Richards
  Amy Richards is an United States activist, writer, organizer, feminist and art historian. She graduated from Barnard College in 1992. Richards has appeared in Fox’s The O'Reilly Factor, Oprah, Talk of the Nation, New York One and CNN....
  
  
• 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

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

• Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy
  Ariel Levy
  Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, Men's Journal and Blender...
  
  
• Walters, Margaret. "Feminism: A very short introduction". Oxford 2005 (ISBN 0-19-280510-X)
• Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide
  Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide
  Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide is a book written by American author and The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. It received a torrent of criticism and created controversy regarding classic problems facing women balancing careers and families....
  
  , Maureen Dowd
  Maureen Dowd
  Maureen Dowd is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times. She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter...
  
  

• Sarojini Sahoo
  Sarojini Sahoo
  Sarojini Sahoo is an Indian feminist writer who has won the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award , the Jhankar Award , the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award, and the Prajatantra Award....
  
  - 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
  Women's writing in English
  Women's writing as a discrete area of literary studies is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their gender, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study...
  
  

Resources

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