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| 1792 |
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Mary Wollstonecraft,
Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| 1838 |
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Sarah Grimke, Letter
on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women |
| 1848 |
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Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" |
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Women's Rights Convention
in Seneca Falls, New York |
| 1850 |
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First U.S. National
Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts |
| 1851 |
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Sojourner Truth "Ain't
I a Woman" |
| 1851 |
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Harriet
Taylor Mill, "The Enfranchisement of Women" |
| 1870 |
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John
Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women |
| 1871 |
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Josephine
Butler, "Letter to my Countrywomen . . . " |
| 1884 |
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Frederick Engels,
Origin of the Family Private Property and the State |
| 1892 |
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Anna Julia Cooper,
A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South |
| 1898 |
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Mary
Church Terrell, The Progress of Colored Women |
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Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, Women and Economics |
| 1899 |
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Kate
Chopin, The Awakening |
| 1905 |
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Beginning of the Bloomsbury
Group (intellectual, artistic, sexually free group) in which Virginia
Woolf declares her independence from Victorian social codes |
| 1910 |
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Emma
Goldman, The Traffic in Women |
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"Mother"
Jones, "Girl Slaves of the Milwaukee Breweries" |
| 1911 |
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Olive
Schreiner, Women and Labor |
| 1920 |
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Margaret Sanger,
Women and the New Race |
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August 26, ratification
of the Nineteenth Amendment which gives US women the vote |
| 1923 |
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Stella Browne, "Studies
in Feminine Inversion" |
| 1928 |
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British women gain
full suffrage; the obscenity trial begins for The Well of Loneliness,
a lesbian novel by Radclyffe Hall that Virginia Woolf defends |
| 1929 |
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Virginia
Woolf, A Room of One's Own |
| 1932 |
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Karen
Horney, "The Dread of Women" |
| 1935 |
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Margaret
Mead, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies |
| 1941 |
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Virginia Woolf commits
suicide by drowning herself in the Ouse River on March 28 in Lewes,
Sussex England, because of severe depression. |
| 1946 |
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Mary Ritter Beard,
Woman as a Force in History |
| 1946 |
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Florynce
Kennedy, Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times |
| 1949 |
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Simone
de Beauvoir, The Second Sex |
| 1963 |
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Betty Freidan, The
Feminine Mystique |
| 1966 |
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NOW (National Organization
for Women) Statement of Purpose |
| 1967 |
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Valerie
Solanas, SCUM Manifesto |
| 1968 |
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Ann Koedt, "The Myth
of the Vaginal Orgasm" in The New York Radical Women, Notes from the
First Year |
| 1969 |
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Kate Millet, Sexual
Politics |
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Mary Ann Weathers,
"An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force" |
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"Redstockings Manifesto" |
| 1970 |
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Shulamith Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex |
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Pauli Murray, "The
Liberation of Black Women" |
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Radicalesbians. "The
Woman-Identified Woman" |
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The Older Women's
League, "Why OWL?" |
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June
Arnold, "Consiousness Raising" |
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Abott and Love, "Is
Women's Liberation a Lesbian Plot?" |
| 1972 |
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Charlotte
Bunch, "Lesbians in Revolt" |
| 1973 |
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Carolyn Heilbron,
Toward a Reconition of Androgyny |
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Mary Daly, Beyond
God the Father |
| 1974 |
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Sherry Ortner, "Is
Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?" |
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Peggy
Sanday, "Female Status in the Public Domain" |
| 1975 |
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Helene Cixous, "The
Laugh of Medusa" |
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Gayle Rubin, "The
Traffic in Women: Notes Toward a 'Political Economy of Sex'" |
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Susan Brownmiller,
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape |
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Casey Miller and
Kate Swift, Words and Women |
| 1977 |
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Combahee River Collective,
"A Black Feminist Statement" |
| 1978 |
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Monique
Wittig, The Straight Mind and Other Essays |
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Audre
Lorde, "Age, Race, Sex and Class: Women Redefining Difference" |
| 1980 |
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Michele Barrett,
Women's Oppression Today |
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Adrienne
Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" |
| 1981 |
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Cherrie
Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by
Radical Women of Color |
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Mitsuye
Yamada, "Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism" |
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Angela
Davis, Women, Race, and Class |
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Susan
Griffin, Pornography and Silence |
| 1983 |
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Ellen
Willis, "Abortion: Is a Woman a Person?" |
