Major writings by feminists document the movement's development and goals from the late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century.
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Harriet Martineau - Society in America
John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
Angelina Grimké - Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - The History of Woman Suffrage
Friedrich Engels - The Origin of the Family
Emma Goldman - The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation
Charlotte Gilman - Women and Economics
Margaret Sanger - My Fight for Birth Control
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
Margaret Mead - Sex and Temperament
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
With introductory essays by Alice S. Rossi