Marxists Internet Archive Library of Feminist Writers

Selected writings of feminists of each of the “three waves” of feminist political activity. Intellectual Property laws prevent the Marxists Internet Archive from reproducing the works of most of the major feminist writers of recent decades. However, key chapters and articles have been reproduced for educaitonal purposes only.

(The “waves” are not defined in the same way as we have chosen to periodise the women's movement. The conventional numbering does not recognise the educated women of the late 18th/early 19th century, part of classical liberalism, as a distinct movement from the later movements which were connected to social democracy. The “third wave” refers to feminists of the 1990s and after who recognised the way in which earlier feminism had been blind to the femininity of Blacks, working class and other women, and developed a much more general, reflexive analysis of status subordination.)