Date Author Title
1405 Christine de Pizan The Book of the City of the Ladies
1792 Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Women
1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
1929 Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
1930 Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
1935 Melanie Klein A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Manic-Depressive States
1940 Clement Greenberg Avant Garde and Kitsch
1949 Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
1963 Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique - Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 5
1964 Antonin Artaud The Theatere and its Double
1967 Roland Barthes The Death of the Author
1967 Michael Fried Art and Objecthood
  Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle
1968 Valerie Solanas SCUM Manifesto
1971 Linda Nochlin Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
1973 Laura Mulvey Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
1974 Juliet Mitchell Psychoanalysis and Feminism
1979 Jean-Francois Lyotard The Postmodern Condition
1980 Julia Kristeva Powers of Horror:  An Essay on Abjection
1984 Frederic Jameson Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
1992 Arthur Danto Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary
1996 Eve Ensler The Vagina Monologues
2003 Ann Landi Who Are the Great Women Artists

 

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