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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

A Brief Summary of Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Leigh-Smith Bodichon (1854)

Remarks on the Education of Girls, with Reference to the Social, Legal, and Industrial Position of Women in the Present Day,  Bessie Rayner Parkes (1856)

The Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill (1869)

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Friedrich Engels (1884)

The Awakening, Kate Chopin (1899)

A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf (1929)

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (1949)

The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing (1962)

The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)

'A Bunny's Tale', Gloria Steinem (1963)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969)

The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood (1969)

The Dialect of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone (1970)

The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer (1970)

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (1970)

Fear of Flying, Erica Jong (1973)

The Female Man, Joanna Russ (1975)

The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston (1976)

The Woman's Room, Marilyn French (1977)

Fat is a Feminist Issue, Susie Orbach (1978)

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter (1979)

Ain't I a Woman, bell hooks (1981)

How To Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ (1983)

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson (1985)

The Creation of Patriarchy, Gerda Lerner (1986)

Gender Trouble, Judith Butler (1990)

The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf (1991)

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, Val Plumwood (1993)

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2000)

Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy (2005)

Living Dolls, Natasha Walter (2010)

How To Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (2011)

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)

Everyday Sexism, Laura Bates (2014)

Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham (2014)

Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit (2014)

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