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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)
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
Endorsing Women's Enfranchisement, Adelle Hazlett (1871) [39] Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, Mary Edwards Walker (1871) On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1871) [40] "Put Us In Your Place" from The Revolution, Lillie Blake (1871) [41] On Woman's Right to Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony (1872) [42]
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social issues of education for women, passing, miscegenation, abolition, reconstruction, temperance, and social ...
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."
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 Feminine Gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836–1945. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. includes brief biographies of 473 writers; Fister, Barbara, ed. Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
Pages in category "American women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,169 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .