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A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest and Some Reflections on Marriage published by Mary Astell.
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen published by Olympe de Gouges.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published by Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Society of Revolutionary Republican Women is founded in France.
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Period: to
First-wave feminism
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“A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women”, published by Barbara Bodichon.
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The Subjection of Women published by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill.
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Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States published by Susan B. Anthony.
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The Man-made world published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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British suffragette Emily Davison ran in front of the king's horse and died at the Epsom Derby race.
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The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal? published by Beatrice Webb.
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf published.
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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir published.
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The Feminine Mystique was published
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"The Discontent of Women", by Joke Kool-Smits, was published
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Chicana feminism, also called Xicanisma
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Period: to
1970's
In the 1970s, French feminist theorists approached feminism with the concept of écriture féminine