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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."
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.
[1] [3] [4] Most genres and subgenres have undergone a similar analysis, so literary studies have entered new territories such as the "female gothic" [5] or women's science fiction. According to Elyce Rae Helford, "Science fiction and fantasy serve as important vehicles for feminist thought, particularly as bridges between theory and practice."
Endorsing Women's Enfranchisement, Adelle Hazlett (1871) [38] Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, Mary Edwards Walker (1871) On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1871) [39] "Put Us In Your Place" from The Revolution, Lillie Blake (1871) [40] On Woman's Right to Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony (1872) [41]
Women & Literature was an American feminist scholarly journal. Janet Margaret Todd, a British academic and author, founded the journal around the 1970s while she was teaching at Rutgers University. [1] Women & Literature wrote about feminist film and literature and sought to support the feminist work of the 1970s. [2]
The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom, Phyllis Chesler (2005) The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women, Susan J. Douglas with Meredith Michaels (2005) Women's Lives, Men's Laws, Catharine MacKinnon (2005) Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big, Mary Daly (2006)
A Celebration of Women Writers; SAWNET: The South Asian Women's NETwork Bookshelf; Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil.
Literature by African-American women (31 C, 147 P) Literature by Asian-American women (18 C, 40 P) Literature by Hispanic and Latino American women (14 C, 32 P)