The essential feminist reader

The book of the City of Ladies (France, 1405) / Christine De Pizan On the equlity of the two sexes (France, 1673) / Francois Poullain De La Barre The reply to Sor Philotea (Mexico, 1691) / Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz A serious proposal to the ladies (England, 1694) / Mary Astell A vindication of the rights of women (England, 1792) / Mary Wollstonecraft Flowers in the mirror (China, c. 1800) / Li Ju-Chen Letters on the equality of the sexes (United States, 1837) / Sarah M. Gimke "The emancipation of working class women" (France, 1843) / Flora Tristan "Declaration of sentiments and resolutions" (United States, 1848) / Elizabeth Candy Stanton Two Speeches / Sojourner Truth "The enfranchisement of women" (England, 1851) / Harriet Taylor Mill The subjection of woment (England, 1869) / John Stuart Mill "Social Purity" (United States, 1875) / Susan B. Anthony The doll's house (Sweden, 1879) / Henrik Ibsen "Daughters in Boxes" (Japan, 1883) / Kishida Toshiko The origin of the family, private property, and the state (Germany, 1884) / Friedrich Engels

"Equality of rights" (Brazil, 1890) / Francisca Diniz A voice from the South (United States, 1892) / Anna Julia Cooper "The solitude of self" / Elizabeth Candy Stanton "The yellow wallpaper" (United States, 1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The liberation of women (Egypt, 1899) / Qasim Amin "Sultana's dream" (India, 1905) / Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Stones of the Jingwei Bird (China, 1905-1907) / Qin Jin "The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation" (United States, 1906) / Emma Goldman "The social basis of the woman question" (Russia, 1909) / Alexandra Kollontai "Rise up! To Woman" / Sara Estela Ramirez "The day the mountains move" (Japan, 1911) / Yosana Akiko "Bread and roses" (United States 1911) / James Oppenheim Mi opinion (Puerto Rico, 1911) / Luisa Capetillo Suffrage speech at Old Baily / Emmeline Pankhurst

Resolutions of the Zurich Conference (1919) / Women's International League for Peace and Freedom "The damnation of women" (United States, 1920) / W.E.B. Du Bois Woman and the new race (United States, 1920) / Margaret Sanger "East and West in cooperation" (India, 1935) / Shareefeh Hamid Ali Three guineas (England, 1938) / Virginia Woolf Nation and family (Sweden, 1941) / Alva Myrdal "Thoughts on March 8" (China, 1942) / Ding Ling Speeches at Arab feminist conference (Egypt, 1944) / Huda Shaarawi "We had equality till Britain came" (Nigeria, 1947) / Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti The second sex (France, 1949) / Simone De Beauvoir Women's charter and aims (South Africa, 1954) / Federation of South African Women The feminine mystique (United States, 1963) / Betty Freidan Testimony, House Committee on Education and Labor (United States, 1970) / Pauli Murray "The politics of housework" (United States, 1970) / Pat Mainardi Our Bodies, Ourselves (United States, 1973) / Boston Women's Health Book Collective "A general strike" (Italy, 1974) / Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Towards equality (india, 1974) / Committee on the Status of Women in India Against our will: men, women and rape (United States, 1975) / Susan Brownmiller "The laugh of the Medusa" (France, 1975) / Helene Cixous "A black feminist statement" (United States, 1977) / Combahee River Collective "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" (United States, 1979) / Audre Lorde Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (1979) / United Nations "The woman's problem" (Bolivia, 1980) / Domitila Barrios De La Chungara "A statement on genital mutilation" (Senegal, 1980) / Association of African Women for Research and Development "How it all began: I have had an abortion" (Germany, 1981) / Anonymous "One is not born a woman" (France, 1981) / Monique Wittig "Notes toward a politics of location" (United States, 1984) / Adrienne Rich "La conciencia de la mestiza: toward a new consciousness" (United States, 1987) / Gloria Anzaldua "When sexism and racism are no longer fashionable" and "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" (United States, 1989) / Guerrilla Girls "Riot grrrl manifesto" (United States, 1992) / Kathleen Hanna/Bikini Kill "Becomming the third wave" (United States, 1992) / Rebecca Walker

Gertrude Mongella (Tanzania), opening address, plenary session / United Nations, Fourth World Conference on Women, Speeches (1995)

Winona LaDuke (United States), "the indigeneous women's network, our future, our responsibility" / United Nations, Fourth World Conference on Women, Speeches (1995)

Palesa Beverley Ditsie (South Africa), statement of the international gay and lesbian human rights commission / United Nations, Fourth World Conference on Women, Speeches (1995)

Gro Haarlem Brundtland (Norway), closing address / United Nations, Fourth World Conference on Women, Speeches (1995)

Parity of the sexes (France, 1998) / Sylviane Agacinski

"Challenging men to reject gender stereotypes" (Zimbabwe, 1998) / Jonah Gokova

Manifesta: young women, feminism, and the future (United States, 2000) / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

"Statement on the occasion of International Women's Day" (Afghanistan, 2004) / Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.