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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, Beverly Guy-Sheftall (ed.) (1995) "A Good Rape", Andrea Dworkin (1996) "Barred From the Bar - A History of Women and the Legal Profession", Hedda Garza (1996) [545] "Beijing Report: The Fourth World Conference on Women" from off our backs, Joreen (1996) [546]
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.
Betty Friedan (/ ˈ f r iː d ən, f r iː ˈ d æ n, f r ɪ-/; [1] February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
The Feminine Mystique is widely regarded as one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century, and is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. [2] [20] Futurist Alvin Toffler declared that it "pulled the trigger on history."
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In the book's introduction, she discusses the purpose of the book as uncovering feminist writings of the past, how the content included focuses on "unsolved feminist problems," and the past and future of the feminist movement. [1] For each work included in the book, she wrote a brief introduction to the work and its author. [1]
Brindis de Salas is the first Black woman in Latin America to publish a book. The 1947 title Pregón de Marimorena discussed the exploitation and discrimination against Black women in Uruguay. 24.
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.