List of works of feminist theory

This is a necessarily incomplete list of significant works of feminist theory and philosophy. Here, feminism includes the various historical and cultural strands of feminism and its related studies; see feminism, feminisms, queer theory, and gender studies.

pre-19th century

• The Book of the City of Ladies (year), Christine de Pizan, 1365-1430 (an argument that women had reason and virtue)
• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), Olympe de Gouges, 1748-1793 (political rights)
• Vindication of the Rights of Woman (year), Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797 (an argument for spiritual equality and equal access to education)

19th century

• The Subjection of Women (year), John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873
• "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women" (1837), Sarah Moore Grimké, 1792-1873
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845, Margaret Fuller
• Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
• "Ain't I a Woman?" (1851 speech), Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883 (speech at 1851 Ohio Women's Rights Convention)
• "The Origin of the Female, Private Property, and the State" (1884), Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895 (early assessment of political economy of monogamy)
• "Enfranchisement of Women" (year), Harriet Taylor Mill, 1807-1858
• The Woman's Bible (year), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (with Matilda Joslyn Gage)
• History of Woman Suffrage (six volumes, from 1887 to 1922), Matilda Joslyn Gage & Elizabeth Cady Stanton

early-mid 20th century

• History of Woman Suffrage (continued)
• Woman and Labour, 1911, Olive Schreiner
• Women's Suffrage : a Short History of a Great Movement, 1912, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
• The Cause: A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain (1928), by Ray Strachey
• Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986
• The Feminine Mystique (1963), Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
• "A Room of One's Own" (1929), Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

1960s-70s

• Sisterhood Is Powerful (1970) Robin Morgan, editor
• The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Shulamith Firestone
• The Female Eunuch (1970), Germaine Greer
• "Goodbye To All That" (1970) Robin Morgan (essay critiquing sexism of 1960s/70s American Left movement)
• "The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970), Toni Cade Bambara
• "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" by Jo Freeman
• Sexual Politics (1970) Kate Millett (significant text in feminist literary criticism)
• Woman, Resistance and Revolution (1973) Sheila Rowbotham
• Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (1973) Sheila Rowbotham
• Corps lesbien (The lesbian body) (1973), Monique Wittig, 1935-2003
• Our Bodies Ourselves (1973; numerous significant revisions since) by the Boston Women's Health Collective
• Woman Hating (1974), Andrea Dworkin
• Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) Luce Irigaray
• "Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape" (1975), Susan Brownmiller
• "Le Rire de la Medusa" (1975), Hélène Cixous
• "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex" (1975) Gayle Rubin
• The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, 1976, Shere Hite
• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976) Adrienne Rich
• This Sex Which Is Not One (1977) Luce Irigaray
• "A Black Feminist Statement" from the Combahee River Collective (1977)
• Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1979), Andrea Dworkin
• SCUM Manifesto (year), Valerie Solanas
• Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them (year), Dale Spender
• Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (1979), Michele Wallace
• Conditions: Five, The Black Women's Issue, No. 2 (Autumn 1979) (eds., Lorraine Bethel & Barbara Smith)

1980s-90s

• Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism (1981), bell hooks
• This Bridge Called My Back (1981), Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, 1942-2004, and Cherríe Moraga)
• Women, Race and Class (1981), Angela Davis
• Surpassing the Love of Men (1981), Lillian Faderman
• All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (1982), edited by Barbara Smith, Gloria T. Hull & Patricia Bell Scott.
• "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" (1982) Gayle Rubin
• In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development (1982) Carol Gilligan (critique of models of ethics and sociology based on studies of boys and men)
• Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983) edited by Barbara Smith
• Right-Wing Women (1983), Andrea Dworkin
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1983) Audre Lorde, 1934-1992 (a "biomythography)
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) Audre Lorde, 1934-1992
• The Spinster and Her Enemies (1985), Sheila Jeffreys
• Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Intercourse (1987), Andrea Dworkin (the source for people who like to claim that Dworkin said all heterosexual sex is rape))
• Feminism Unmodified (1987) Catherine MacKinnon
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1987?) Alice Walker
• How To Suppress Women's Writing (year) Joanna Russ
• A Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway

• Black Feminist Thought (1990), Patricia Hill Collins (see also significant revision in 2000)
• Gyn/Ecology (1990), Mary Daly
• "You Just Don't Understand" (1990) Deborah Tannen (difference feminism; an argument that inherent gender distinctions in communication patterns exist)
• Gender Trouble (1990), Judith Butler
• Epistemology of the Closet (1990) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women]] (1991) by Susan Faludi
• Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex (1992), Carol Tavris
• The War Against Women (1992), Marilyn French
• "Women's Time" in New Maladies of the Soul (1993) Julia Kristeva
• "The Five Sexes" (1993), Anne Fausto-Sterling (a tongue-in-cheek exposition of serious distinction between gender and sex)
• My Gender Workbook (1994), Kate Bornstein
• Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994), Lillian Faderman
• Gender Outlaw (1997), Kate Bornstein
• "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1997?) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 1942 (founding text of postcolonialism)
• Myths of Gender (year), Anne Fausto-Sterling
• Fighting Words (1998), Patricia Hill Collins
• Female Masculinity (1998) Judith Halberstam

2000 & beyond

• Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (2000), Anne Fausto-Sterling
• Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004), Patricia Hill Collins
• From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (2006), Patricia Hill Collins

unsorted

• Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology ed. by Barbara Smith
• Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology ed. by Robin Morgan
• Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés (bestseller)
• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (bestseller)
• Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• The History of Sexuality Michel Foucault
• "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" Anne Koedt
• Cherríe Moraga, 1952- (This Bridge Called My Back with Gloria Anzaldúa)
• "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" Adrienne Rich