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This portal lists texts commonly associated with the modern rise of feminism through the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Feminist works and commentaries
[edit]- An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, by Judith Drake, 1696
- The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives, anonymous but attributed to Sarah Chapone, 1735
- The Sentiments of an American Woman, by Esther De Berdt Reed, 1780
- Original Stories from Real Life, by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1788
- Letters on Education with Observations on Religions and Metaphysical Subjects by Catharine Macaulay, 1790. Google Books
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
- The Female Advocate, by Mary Ann Radcliffe, 1799
- Enfranchisement of women, by Harriet Taylor Mill, 1851
- Woman's Rights Tracts, various authors, 1854 IA
- The Subjection of Women, by John Stuart Mill, 1869
- Uncivil Liberty: an essay to show the injustice and impolicy of ruling woman against her consent, by Ezra Hervey Heywood, 1871
- The early history of the property of married women, by Henry Sumner Maine, c.1873
- Woman: Man's Equal, by Thomas Webster, 1873 Project Gutenberg Page scans at IA
- Female Suffrage, article in Popular Science Monthly, 1874
- The New Woman of the New South, by Josephine K. Henry, 1895
- Woman, by Kate Austin, 1901
- "The Bohemian Women in New York", in Charities, vol. 13, no. 10 (December 1904)
- Woman and the Bible, by Josephine K. Henry, 1905
- "Women," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- The Future of the Women's Movement (1913) by Helena Maria Swanwick
- Women and War: An Appeal to the Women of All Nations by Frances S. Hallowes, c. 1914
- "Congress of Slav women" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (7) (1918)
- "Czech Women Real Patriots" by in The Czechoslovak Review, 2 (11–12) (1918)
- Woman Triumphant: The Story of Her Struggles for Freedom, Education and Political Rights, by Rudolf Cronau, 1919
- United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, by the United Nations General Assembly, 1979
- The Feminist Movement (1912) by Ethel Snowden
Poetry
[edit]- The Female Right to Literature, in a Letter to a Young Lady from Florence (poem), by Thomas Seward, 1748
- The Feminead, or: Female Genius. A poem. by John Duncombe, 1751
- An Essay on Woman, by Mary Leapor, external transcript
- The Female Advocate, by Mary Scott, 1774 (Jisc Historical Texts (subscription required)) (Google Books)
- Female Piety and Virtue, an Ode, by Thomas Gibbons, 1777
- Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller, 1915
- Women are people! by Alice Duer Miller, 1917
Feminist fiction
[edit]- The Story of Fidelia by Mary Ann Radcliffe, first published 1753
- Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1788
- The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1798
- Emma by Jane Austen, 1816
- The Yellow Wall Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1901
- Herland, utopian novel about a world only of women by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1915
Biographies
[edit]- "Taylor, Helen," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
Criticism
[edit]- Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women, 1897 IA
- The Legal Subjection of Men, 1908 by Ernest Belfort Bax
- Making a Man of Herself, 1912 by Ida Minerva Tarbell as it appeared in The American Magazine
- The Business of Being a Woman, 1913 by Ida Minerva Tarbell
- The Fraud of Feminism, 1913 by Ernest Belfort Bax
- Woman Suffrage as Affecting the Family, 1874 by John Elliott Cairnes as it appeared in Popular Science Monthly