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Men, Women, And Gods, And Other Lectures, Helen H. Gardener (1885) [100] The Bostonians, Henry James (1886) Cathy the Caryatid (Polish: Kaśka Kariatyda), a novel by Gabriela Zapolska (1886) The Woman Question, Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling (1886) [101] Misogyny in Excelsis, Annie Besant (1887) [102] Women and Men, Thomas Wentworth ...
Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate; Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist; Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author; Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter; Susanna Blamire (1747–1794 ...
Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [11] There is little printed recordings on women's writing in the Western United States because establishing the field involved measures that were not seen as scholarly achievement.
This is a partial list of modernist women writers. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet; Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author; Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American novelist, playwright, etc. Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American novelist, poet, short story writer; Bryher (1894–1983), British novelist, activist
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Before The Tortured Poets Department was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006 ...
Other anthologies created new canons of women's writing from the past, such as Black sister: poetry by black American women, 1746-1980 (1981) edited by Erlene Stetson; or Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 (1987) edited by Paula Rabinowitz and Charlotte Nekola. Such anthologies "established solid ground for the ...