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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.
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 ...
Feminist children's literature is the writing of children's literature through a feminist lens. Children's literature and women's literature have many similarities. Both often deal with being weak and placed towards the bottom of a hierarchy. In this way feminist ideas are regularly found in the structure of children's literature. Feminist ...
Pages in category "Feminist literature" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a list of publishers dedicated either wholly or to a significant degree to publishing material written for, by, or about women. Many of them started during the " second wave " of feminism . The focus of this list is not on publishers which market to women, but on publishers who have a stated commitment to publishing feminist and other ...
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."
American feminist critic and writer Elaine Showalter defines this movement as "the inscription of the feminine body and female difference in language and text." [ 14 ] Écriture féminine places experience before language, and privileges non-linear, cyclical writing that evades "the discourse that regulates the phallocentric system."
Suffragette, feminist; human rights campaigner; influential in labour rights and early days of UN: 1875–1939: Louisa Strittmater: United States: 1896: 1944: Feminist whose division of her estate to the National Woman's Party as listed in her will was controversially contested. [103] 1875–1939: Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill: United ...