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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Davin reports that only L. Taylor Hansen concealed her sex in early years, and that C. L. Moore wanted to hide her career as a science fiction author from her job. Women writers were in a minority: during the '50s and '60s, almost 1,000 stories published in science fiction magazines by over 200 female-identified authors between 1926 and 1960 ...
Women’s History Month is an excellent time to learn about the trailblazing women who came before us and are currently changing the world. Many women’s achievements have been given an even ...
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; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1654–1724), French ...
Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. [11] The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [ 11 ]
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.