Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 04:47, 6 February 2014

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.

Part of a series on
Feminism
History Feminist history History of feminism Women's history American British Canadian German Waves First Second Third Fourth Timelines Women's suffrage Muslim countries US Other women's rights Women's suffrage by country Austria Australia Canada Colombia India Japan Kuwait Liechtenstein New Zealand Spain Second Republic Francoist Switzerland United Kingdom Cayman Islands Wales United States states
Intersectional variants Fat Lesbian Lesbian of color Radical lesbianism Separatist Sex-positive Transfeminism Postgenderism Vegetarian ecofeminism Socialist Anarchist Queer Jineology Marxist Critical theory Standpoint Materialist Ecofeminist Postcolonial Global Transnational Xenofeminism Multicultural Africana womanism Black Hip hop Lesbian Ratchet Chicana Lesbian Indigenous Native American Multiracial Romani Womanism
Other variants Anti-abortion Equity Femonationalism Maternal Postfeminism Reactionary State Carceral Imperial Embedded Gender-critical or trans-exclusionary Victim White
Religious variants Atheist Buddhist Christian Mormon New Womanist Asian Neopagan Dianic Wicca Reclaiming Ecofeminist Hindu Islamic Jewish Orthodox Sikh
Movements and ideologies 4B movement Analytical Anti-fascist Anti-pornography Cyberfeminism HCI Networked Difference Cultural Neo Ecofeminism Eugenic Individualist Lipstick Stiletto Liberal Equality Social Labor Libertarian Post-structural Postmodern Radical Political lesbianism Separatist Technofeminism Women's liberation
Concepts Antinaturalism Choice feminism Cognitive labor Complementarianism Literature Children's literature Diversity (politics) Diversity, equity, and inclusion Effects on society Equality Female education Female genital mutilation Femicide Femonationalism Feminism in culture Feminist movement African-American women's suffrage movement Art movement In hip hop Feminist stripper Formal equality Gender equality Gender quota Girl power Honor killing Ideal womanhood Invisible labor Internalized sexism International Girl's Day and Women's Day Language reform Feminist capitalism Gender-blind Likeability trap Male privilege Matriarchal religion Media Men in feminism Misogyny Trans Oedipus complex Opposition to feminism Pro-feminism Protofeminism Purplewashing Racism Reproductive justice Sex workers' rights Sexual harassment Sexual objectification Substantive equality Toxic masculinity Transmisogyny Triple oppression Violence against women War on women Women's empowerment Women-only space Women's health Women's rights Women in the workforce
Outlooks Bicycling and feminism Criticism of marriage Views on BDSM Views on pornography Views on prostitution Views on sexual orientation Views on sexuality Views on transgender topics SCUM Manifesto
Theory Feminist method Gender studies Gender mainstreaming Gynocentrism Kyriarchy Male gaze Matriarchy Women's studies Men's studies Patriarchy Écriture féminine Areas of study Anthropology Archaeology Architecture Art Art criticism Literary criticism Film theory Science fiction Biology Composition studies Criminology Pathways perspective Economics FDPA Geography International relations Constructivism Legal theory Pedagogy Philosophy Aesthetics Empiricism Epistemology Ethics Justice ethics Existentialism Metaphysics science Political ecology Political theory Pornography Psychology Therapy Revisionist mythology Sex wars Sexology Sociology Technoscience Theology womanist theology
By continent/country Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Mali Nigeria Senegal South Africa Albania Australia Bangladesh Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Republic of Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latin America Argentina Brazil Chile Haiti Honduras Mexico Paraguay Trinidad and Tobago Lebanon Malaysia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Northern Cyprus Norway Pakistan Philippines Poland Russia Saudi Arabia South Korea Sweden Syria Taiwan Thailand Turkey Vietnam Ukraine United Kingdom United States History of women
Lists and categories Lists Articles Feminists by nationality Literature American feminist literature Feminist comic books Feminist songs Conservative feminisms Ecofeminist authors Feminist art critics Feminist economists Feminist philosophers Feminist poets Feminist rhetoricians Jewish feminists Muslim feminists Feminist parties Suffragists and suffragettes Women's rights activists Women's studies journals Women's suffrage organizations Categories Women's rights by country Feminists by nationality
Feminism portal
v t e

Part of a series on
Feminist philosophy
Major works A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) The Subjection of Women (1869) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) The Second Sex (1949) The Feminine Mystique (1963) Sexual Politics (1969) The Dialectic of Sex (1970) Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) This Sex Which is Not One (1977) Gyn/Ecology (1978) Throwing Like a Girl (1980) In a Different Voice (1982) The Politics of Reality (1983) Women, Race, and Class (1983) Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989) Gender Trouble (1990) Sexual Personae (1990) Black Feminist Thought (1990) Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) Whipping Girl (2007) The Promise of Happiness (2010)
Major thinkers Bartky Baier de Beauvoir Bebel Boggs Butler Cixous Cleyre De la Cruz Collins Daly Davis Démar Dworkin Federici Firestone Fourier Friedan Frye Gamond Goldman Grosz Haslanger hooks Irigaray Jaggar Kristeva Lerner Lorde Lugones Luxemburg MacKinnon Mama Michel Mill Taylor Mill Millett Nussbaum Paglia Pankhurst Pateman Plumwood Rubin Saadawi Showalter Solanas Spivak Voilquin Wittig Wollstonecraft Young Zetkin
Ideas Feminism analytical epistemology ethics existentialism metaphysics science Gender equality Gender performativity Social construction of gender Care ethics Intersectionality Standpoint theory
Journals Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Hypatia philoSOPHIA Radical Philosophy Signs
Category Feminist philosophy
v t e

This is a list of feminist literature written by Americans or first published by people when they were living in America, listed by year of first publication.

Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. Feminist literature often identifies women's roles in contrast to men's roles as unequal to men's in status, privilege and power and the usually negative consequences to women and or men, families, communities, and society.

18th century

• 1776 "Remember the Ladies" letter to her husband - Abigail Adams

19th century

• 1837 Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women - Sarah Moore Grimké
• 1985-98 The Woman's Bible - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

20th century

• 1915 Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 1963 The Feminine Mystique - Betty Freidan
• 1964 "After Black Power, Women's Liberation" - Gloria Steinem
• 1971 Our Bodies, Ourselves - ed. Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective)
• 1981 Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks
• 1981 This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• 1983 Heartburn - Nora Ephron
• 1984 Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
• 1989 Tribe of Dina - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
• 1990 Reading Black, Reading Feminist - Henry Louis Gates
• 1991 Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women - Susan Faludi
• 1997 A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution - Tristan Taormino, Karen Green

21st century

• 2001 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
• 2002 Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Inga Muscio
• 2009 A Jury of Her Peers Elaine Showalter

See also

• List of feminist literature
• List of feminist poets

References

1. Waldstreicher, David (2013-02-15). A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 206–. ISBN 9781118524299. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
2. Harness, Cheryl (2003-02-04). Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780064438698. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
3. Gerda Lerner (1998). The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195106046. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
4. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (2006-07). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880 to 1887. Rutgers University Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 9780813523200. Retrieved 20 January 2014. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. Davis, Cynthia J.; Knight, Denise D. (2004-04-16). Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts. University of Alabama Press. pp. 171–. ISBN 9780817350727. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
6. Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth (2009-06-30). Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. Routledge. pp. 216–. ISBN 9780203874448. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
7. Wilson, Wendy S.; Herman, Gerald H. (2000-01-01). Critical Thinking Using Primary Sources in U.S. History. Walch Publishing. pp. 116–. ISBN 9780825141447. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
8. Gilmore, Stephanie (2008). Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-wave Feminism in the United States. University of Illinois Press. pp. 63–. ISBN 9780252075391. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
9. Davids, Tine; Driel, Francien Th. M. van (2005-01-01). The Gender Question in Globalization: Changing Perspectives and Practices. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 77–. ISBN 9780754639237. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
10. Krolokke, Charlotte; Sorensen, Anne Scott (2006). Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance. SAGE Publications. pp. 12–. ISBN 9780761929185. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
11. Davidson, Jeanette R. (2010). African American Studies. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 9780748637157. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
12. Keating, AnaLouise (2013-10-15). Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change. University of Illinois Press. pp. 30–. ISBN 9780252095115. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
13. Muñoz, José Esteban (1999). Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 22–. ISBN 9780816630158. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
14. Gutman, Huck (1991). As Others Read Us: International Perspectives on American Literature. Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 240–. ISBN 9780870236297. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
15. McGilligan, Patrick (2010). Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s. University of California Press. pp. 58–. ISBN 9780520251052. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
16. Guy-Sheftall, Beverly (2013-12-13). Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought. New Press. ISBN 9781595587657. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
17. ^ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2009-01-01). Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature. Infobase Publishing. pp. 738–. ISBN 9781438109107. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
18. Bertens, Hans (2007-10-04). Literary Theory: The Basics. Routledge. pp. 90–. ISBN 9780203939628. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
19. Piepmeier, Alison (2009-11-18). Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism. NYU Press. pp. 221–. ISBN 9780814767733. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
20. Chapman, Roger (2010). Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 152–. ISBN 9780765622501. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
21. Dreier, Peter (2012). The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame. Nation Books. pp. 412–. ISBN 9781568586946. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
22. Auger, Peter (2010). The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory. Anthem Press. pp. 129–. ISBN 9780857286703. Retrieved 19 January 2014.

Resources

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

• American feminists
• American women's rights activists
• Feminist books
• Feminists
• American literature
• Lists of writers
• Feminist literature
• Feminism and the arts
• Feminism-related lists