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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo (1993) Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women, Alice Walkernand Pratibha Parmar (1993) Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, Miriam Schneir (1994) Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing, Rosemary Radford Ruether (1994)
The following is a list of American feminist literature listed by year of first publication, then within the year alphabetically by title. 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.
Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings is an anthology edited with an introduction and commentaries by Miriam Schneir. [1] It was originally published in 1972 and re-published in 1994 by Vintage Books. [1] It comprises essays, fiction, memoirs, and letters by what Schneir labels the major feminist writers. [1]
Much of the early feminist literary scholarship was given over to the rediscovery and reclamation of texts written by women. In Western feminist literary scholarship, studies such as Dale Spender's Mothers of the Novel (1986) and Jane Spencer's The Rise of the Woman Novelist (1986) were ground-breaking in their insistence that women have always ...
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."
As the critic Lucy Lippard noted, feminist art isn’t a “movement” but rather “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way […] Essentials: 7 Rousing Books on Feminist Art and Artists ...
Miriam Schneir also includes this text in her anthology Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, labelling it as one of the essential feminist works. [ 10 ] The influential editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold , believing Fuller went against his notion of feminine modesty, referred to Woman in the Nineteenth Century as "an eloquent expression of ...
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."