Feminist Literature: A Bibliography


Bauer, Nancy. Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy and Feminism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Bennett, Paula. My Life, a Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Bernhermeimer, Charles and Claire Kahane. In Dora's Case: 
Freud--Hysteria--Feminism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Birke, Lynda I.A. Feminism and the Biological Body. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. Man Cannot Speak for Her. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Castro, Ginette. American Feminism: A Contemporary History. New York: New York University Press, 1990.

De Lavretis, Teresa. Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Evans, Mary. Simone De Beauvoir, a Feminist Mandarin. New York: Tavistock, 1985.

The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Yale University Press, 1990.

Findlen, Barbara. Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation. Seattle, Wash: Seal Press, 1995.

Fisher, Lucy. Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters: The Grass Roots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique on Individualism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Freedman, Estelle B. No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton, 1983. 

Gamble, Sarah. The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Habegger, Alfred. Henry James and the "Woman Business". New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Hite, Molly. The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narrative. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory From Margin to Center. Boston, Ma: South End Press, 1984.

Humm, Maggie. The Dictionary of Feminist Theory. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.

Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

Rodnitzky, Jerome L. Feminist Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1999.

Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to De Beauvoir. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.

Schneir, Miriam. Feminism In Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War 11 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

Whelehan, Imelda. Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to "Post- Feminism". New York: New York University Press, 1995.

Zinsser, Judith P. History & Feminism: A Glass Half Full. New York Twayne Publishers, 1993.

BIOGRAPHIES

Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. New York: New York University Press, 1988.

Francis, Claude. Simone De Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story. New York: St. Martins Press, 1987.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Griffith, Elizabeth. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.