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List of American feminist literature

Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of menparticularly as regards status, privilege and powerand generally portrays the consequences to women, men, families, communities and societies as undesirable.

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.

18th century

  • Letters on Women's Rights, Abigail and John Adams (1776)
  • Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms, Judith Sargent Murray (1784)
  • "On the Equality of the Sexes", Judith Sargent Murray, from The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum Concerning the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, Amusements of the Age, Vol. II (1790)

19th century

1810s–1820s

  • "An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New-York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education", Emma Willard (1819)
  • "Men and Women; Brief Hypothesis concerning the Difference in their Genius", John Neal (1824)

1830s

  • "Marriage Law Protest", Robert Dale Owen (1832)
  • The History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations, Lydia Maria Child (1835)
  • Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, Sarah Grimke (1837)
  • "Remarks Comprising in Substance Judge Hertell's Argument in the House of Assembly in the State of New York in the Session of 1837 in Support of the Bill to Restore to Married Women the 'Right of Property' as Guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States", Judge Thomas Hertell (1837)
  • The Times that Try Men's Souls, Maria Weston Chapman (1837)

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

20th century

1900s

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1960s

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1990s

21st century

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2010s

2020s

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