List of feminist literature (Redirected from Feminist fiction)

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. References lead when possible to a link to the full text of the literature.

14th century

15th century

16th century

  • Orlando Furioso Canto 37, Ludovico Ariosto (1516-1532)
  • The Superior Excellence of Women Over Men, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1529)
  • The Defense of Good Women, Thomas Elyot (1545)
  • La Nobiltà delle Donne, The Nobility of Women Lodovico Domenichi (1549)
  • Difese delle Donne, A Defence of Women, Domenico Bruni da Pistoia (1552)
  • La bella e dotta difesa delle donne in verso, e prosa, di messer Luigi Dardano ... contra gli accusatori del sesso loro. Con un breue trattato di ammaestrare li figliuoli, The Beautiful and Learned Defence of Women in Verse, Prose ... against the detractors of their sex, with a brief tract to be administered to sons, Luigi Dardano (1553)
  • Discorso sopra il Principio di Tutti I Canti di Orlando Furioso, Discourse on the Principles of all the Canti of Orlando Furioso Laura Terracina (1583)
  • Le Promenoir de M. de Montaigne qui traite de l'amour dans l'œuvre de Plutarque, Marie le Jars de Gournay (1584)
  • Her Protection for Women, Jane Anger (1589)

17th century

  • The Worth of Women Il Merito delle Donne, Moderata Fonte (1600)
  • "Poem 92, called Philosophical Satire", Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1600s)
  • The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men Lucrezia Marinella (1601)
  • A Muzzle for Melastomus, the Cynical Baiter of, and Foul-mouthed Barker Against Eve's Sex. Or An Apologetical Answer to that Irreligious and Illiterate Pamphlet Made by Jo. Sw. And By Him Entitled, "The Arraignment of Women", Rachel Speght (1617)
  • Ester Hath Hang'd Haman: An Answer To a Lewd Pamphlet, Entitled "The Arraignment of Women," With the Arraignment of Lewd, Idle Forward, and Unconstant Men, and Husbands, Ester Sowernam (1617)
  • Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Anonymous (1620)
  • Égalité des hommes et des femmes, Marie Le Jars de Gournay (1622), translated into English as The Equality of Men and Women
  • Grief des dames, Marie Le Jars de Gournay (1626), translated into English as The Ladies' Grievance
  • Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus. And how Women were the first that Preached the Tidings of the Resurrection of Jesus, and were sent by Christ's own Command, before he Ascended to the Father, John 20. 17., Margaret Fell (1667)
  • An Essay to Revive the Antient [sic] Education of Gentlewomen in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues, with An Answer to the Objections Against this Way of Education., Bathsua Makin (1673)
  • De l'égalité des deux sexes, François Poullain de la Barre (1673)
  • De l'Éducation des dames pour la conduite de l'esprit dans les sciences et dans les mœurs, entretiens, François Poullain de la Barre (1674)
  • La Princesse de Clèves, Madame de Lafayette (1678)
  • Female Advocate or, an Answer to a Late Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex, Sarah Fyge Egerton (1686)
  • A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, Mary Astell (1694)
  • An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady, Judith Drake (1697)
  • A Serious Proposal, Part II, Mary Astell (1697)
  • The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn (1697)

18th century

19th century

1810s–1820s

1830s

  • Indiana, George Sand (pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1832)
  • "Marriage Law Protest", Robert Dale Owen (1832)
  • Valentine, George Sand (pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1832)
  • Lélia, George Sand (pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1833)
  • Jacques, George Sand (pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) (1834)
  • The History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations, Lydia Maria Child (1835)
  • Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, Sarah Grimke (1837)
  • "Remarks Comprising in Substance Judge Hertell's Argument in the House of Assembly in the State of New York in the Session of 1837 in Support of the Bill to Restore to Married Women the 'Right of Property' as Guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States", Judge Thomas Hertell (1837)
  • The Times that Try Men's Souls, Maria Weston Chapman (1837)
  • Woman, Harriet Martineau (1837)
  • On Marriage, Harriet Martineau (1838)

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

20th century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

  • "Women as a Minority Group", Helen Mayer Hacker (1951)
  • The Matriarchal-Brotherhood: Sex and Labor in primitive society, Evelyn Reed (1954)
  • The Myth of Women's Inferiority, Evelyn Reed (1954)
  • The Feminist Movement in the Philippines 1905-1955: A Golden Book to commemorate The Golden Jubilee of the Feminist Movement in the Philippines, Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido (1955)

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

21st century

2000s

2010s

2020s

  • Women and Work: The Sky Is Full of Sexism, Rahul Kapoor (2021)
  • The Madonna Secret, Sophie Strand (2023)
  • This is what happens, Chris Wind (2020)
  • Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence, by Shrayana Bhattacharya (2021)

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