FEMINISM

1. History of Feminist Movement

1.1. Early Beginnings

1.1.1. Mary Wollstonecraft

1.1.1.1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

1.1.1.2. Advocacy for women's education and participation in public life

1.1.1.3. Response to Rousseau's Emile

1.1.2. Grimke Sisters

1.1.2.1. Early advocates in the USA, linking abolitionism and women's rights​

1.2. First Wave Feminism

1.2.1. 19th - Early 20th Century

1.2.2. Suffrage Movement

1.2.2.1. Fight for women's right to vote

1.2.2.2. Key figures: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1.3. Second Wave Feminism

1.3.1. 1960s - 1980s

1.3.2. Simone de Beauvoir

1.3.2.1. The Second Sex (1949)

1.3.2.2. Concept of woman as the 'Other'

1.3.2.3. Influenced existential feminism

1.3.3. Betty Friedan

1.3.3.1. The Feminine Mystique (1963)

1.3.3.2. Critique of the suburban housewife ideal

1.4. Third Wave Feminism

1.4.1. 1990s - Present

1.4.2. Focus on intersectionality

1.4.3. Expansion of feminist thought to include diverse experiences of race, sexuality, and class

2. Key Figures

2.1. Simone de Beauvoir

2.1.1. The Second Sex

2.1.2. Concept of the 'Other'

2.1.3. Existential feminism

2.2. Mary Wollstonecraft

2.2.1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

2.2.2. Advocacy for women's education and rationality

2.2.3. Critique of Rousseau​

2.3. Virginia Woolf

2.3.1. A Room of One's Own

2.3.2. Three Guineas

2.3.3. Analysis of the economic and social constraints on women writers

2.3.4. Early feminist literary criticism​

2.4. Elaine Showalter

2.4.1. A Literature of Their Own

2.4.2. Development of gynocriticism

2.4.3. Analysis of the female literary tradition​

3. Rise of Feminist Theory & Criticism

3.1. Foundational Texts

3.1.1. Simone de Beauvoir

3.1.1.1. The Second Sex as a foundational feminist philosophical text

3.2. Development of Feminist Literary Criticism

3.2.1. Elaine Showalter

3.2.1.1. Elaine Showalter

3.2.1.2. The Madwoman in the Attic by Gilbert and Gubar (1979), exploring female creativity without male authorship​

3.3. Intersection with Other Theories

3.3.1. Psychoanalysis and Feminist Thought

3.3.1.1. Critique of Freudian theories by feminists like Friedan and Millet

3.3.1.2. Integration of psychoanalytic concepts into feminist theory

4. History of Women's Literature

4.1. Early Women's Writing

4.1.1. Mary Wollstonecraft

4.1.1.1. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)

4.1.1.2. Early works reflecting on women's roles and education

4.2. Victorian and Early 20th Century

4.2.1. Virginia Woolf

4.2.1.1. A Room of One's Own (1929)

4.2.1.2. Exploration of the economic and social barriers to women's creativity

4.2.1.3. Three Guineas (1938) on women's education and social roles

4.3. Modern and Contemporary Literature

4.3.1. Elaine Showalter

4.3.1.1. A Literature of Their Own (1977)

4.3.1.2. Concept of gynocriticism and the female literary tradition

4.3.1.3. Analysis of three phases of female literary history