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The following is a list of feminist literature, listed by year of first publication, then within the year alphabetically by title (using the English title rather than the foreign language title if available/applicable). Books and magazines are in italics, all other types of literature are not and are in quotation marks.
Pages in category "English feminist writers" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ruth Adam;
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 ...
Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), English suffragist, poet; Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist; Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet, novelist and short story writer; Katha Pollitt (born 1949), American feminist poet, essayist and critic; Qiu Jin (1875–1907), Chinese revolutionary, feminist ...
Writer, social commentator, feminist author: 1940–1999: Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar: United Kingdom: 1944 – Muslim feminist, professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords [121] 1940–1999: Leila Ahmed: Egypt: 1940 – Writer on Islamic feminism [122] 1940–1999: Sara Ahmed: United Kingdom: 1969 –
List of feminist literature; List of women anthologists; List of women cookbook writers; List of women electronic writers; List of women hymn writers; List of women sportswriters; Lists of women writers by nationality; Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen; Norton Anthology of Literature by Women; Sophie (digital lib)
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), New England 's first published poet Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess