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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-66144-7. Todd, Janet. Women's Friendship in Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. ISBN 978-0-231-04562-9; Wolfson, Susan J. On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus.
Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer [41] [42] 1700–1799: Sarah Ponsonby: Ireland: 1755: 1831: One of the Ladies of Llangollen [28] 1700–1799: Mary Shelley: United Kingdom: 1797: 1851: Early pioneer feminist [35] 1700–1799: Maria Engelbrecht Stokkenbech: Denmark: 1759: after 1806: Dressed as a man to be able to work ...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who ...
1978: Sisterwrite, Britain's first feminist bookshop, [173] opened in 1978; it was run as a collective. [174] [175] [176] 1978: Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), founded 1978; was a feminist umbrella collective organising under a political black identity [177] 1979: The Kennel Club began admitting women members in 1979 ...
Here's what we do know for sure: until they were collected by early catalogers Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and The Brothers Grimm, fairy tales were shared orally. And, a look at the sources cited in these first collections reveals that the tellers of these tales — at least during the Grimms' heydey — were women.
Heavily influenced by Mary Astell, Lady Mary Chudleigh was one of the first Englishwomen to recognize that as a social group, women faced unique challenges. She wrote overtly feminist works and argued strongly for marriage reform and women's education, believing women should cultivate reason, virtue and stoic integrity, despite living in a ...
This table lists women playwrights who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, before the Victorian era, with a brief indication of productivity or other significant information. The entries may be reordered to browse by name or date.
First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred within the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote). 1824: "Men and Women: Brief Hypothesis Concerning the Difference in their Genius" published by John Neal [3]