Publications

Women’s Liberation Movement books, magazines/journals and pamphlets

The run up!

1792   Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1972. UK: London: Joseph Johnson. 2004. Ed., Miriam Brody Kramnick. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Penguin.

1851   Ain’t I A Woman? Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) A speech delivered at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, USA. (U.S. National Park Service www.nps.gov retrieved 10 March 2022).

1861   Beeton’s Book of Household Management, Isabella Beeton, London: S.O. Beeton Publishing: First edition published in 24 monthly parts (1859-1861); 1861 First bound edition S.O. Beeton. New edition London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1861. 1986 Facsimile edition, London: Jonathan Cape.

1892   The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, 1892. USA : Boston : New England Magazine 11 (5). 1987 ed. Dover Publications. 1981 (as Charlotte Perkins Gilman): London: Virago Modern Classics.

1899   The Awakening, Kate Chopin, 1899. USA: New Orleans,: Herbert S. Stone & Co., republished New York, NY, USA: Bantam Classics. UK Ed. 2020: Martin Lewis.

1915   Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, USA: where?: The Forerunner (magazine) (serial). 1979: USA: Pantheon Books. 1979: UK: London: The Women’s Press.

1920 Hungry Hearts and Other Stories, Anzia Yezierska, 1920. USA: Houghton Mifflin. Republishe 1985 UK: London: Virago Modern Classics.

1923 Love of Worker Bees (novel), Alexandra Kollontai, USSR. Republished 1977 Love of Worker Bees & A Great Love, Alexandra Kollontai, trans: Cathy Porter, London: Virago.

1925 Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska, 1925. USA: NY: Doubleday.  Republished 1984: UK: London: The Women’s Press Limited.

1928 The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, 1928. UK: London: Jonathan Cape. Republished 2014: UK: London: Wordsworth Editions.

1928 Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, 1928. UK: London: Hogarth Press. Republished 2020: UK: London: Penguin Modern Classics.

1929 A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf, 1929. London, UK,: Hogarth Press. Republished 2014: UK: London: Collins Classics, with Three Guineas.

1933 Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain, 1933. London, UK: Victor Gollanz. Republished 1978: UK: London: Virago.

1936 Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, 1939. US: NY: Harcourt Trade Publishers, Republished 2006: Where? New Directions Publishing.

1936 South Riding, Winifred Holtby. UK: London,: Collins. (Published posthumously).

1938 Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf, UK, 1938. UK: London: Hogarth Press. 2014. UK: London: Collins Classics. Published with A Room of One’s Own.

1946 Woman as Force in History, Mary R. Beard. 1946. US: NY MacMillan. (no relation to Dame Mary Beard).

1949 The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, France: Paris: Gallimard (Le Deuxieme Sexe 2 vols.,). 1953 US. NY: Alfred Knopf. 1953. UK: London: Jonathan Cape Limited. 1997: US & UK Vintage Classic.

1958   Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir, 1958. France: Paris: Gallimard.

1959 Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Simone de Beauvoir, 1959. UK: Harmondsworth: Penguin. The first of 4 volumes of her autobiography republished in English.

1963 The Prime of Life; Simone de Beauvoir, 1963. UK: Harmondsworth: Penguin.

1965 Force of Circumstance, Simone de Beauvoir, 1965. UK: Harmondsworth: Penguin.

1968 All Said and Done, Simone de Beauvoir, 1968. UK: Harmondsworth: Penguin.

1962 The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, 1962. UK: London: Michael Joseph. 2007: Reissued US: Harper Perennial.

1962 The Pumpkin Eater, Penelope Mortimer, 1962. UK: Harmondsworth: Penguin.

1963 A Summer Bird Cage, Margaret Drabble, 1963. UK: London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.

 1963 The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, 1963. US: NY: W.W. Norton. 2010: The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, UK: Harmondsworth: Penguin Modern Classics.

1963 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath, 1963. US: NY: Heinemann. Originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.

1964 L’Opoponax, Monique Wittig, 1964. France: Paris, Les Edition Minuit. 1966: The Opoponax, Monique Wittig, US: Simon and Schuster translated by Helen Weaver.

1964 The Shadow of the Sun, A.S. Byatt, 1964. UK. London: Chatto & Windus.  A. S. Byatt won the Booker prize for her novel Possession in 1990, UK: London: Chatto & Windus. US: NY:  Random House.

1965 The Millstone, Margaret Drabble, 1965. UK: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

1966 The Captive Wife: Conflicts of Housebound Mothers, Hannah Gavron. UK: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Published posthumously.

1966 Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys, 1966. UK: London: Andre Deutsch. US. NY: W.W. Norton. Reissued 2000 Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys, UK: Harmondsworth: Penguin Modern Classics.

1967 Petticoat Rebellion Marion Ramelson, 1967. UK: London: Lawrence & Wishart.

The movement explodes into print:

1968

Books & Pamphlets

Housework and the Politics of Women’s Liberation, Ellen Malos, 1968. UK: Bristol: RSM Publications. 

SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, 1967. US. Self-published pamphlet. 1968 SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas US: New York (NY): Olympia Press.

The Institution of Sexual Intercourse, Ti-Grace Atkinson, US: NY: The Feminists. Pamphlet.

Thinking About Women, Mary Ellmann, US. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World. 2014. Republished UK: London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Journals/Periodicals and key articles

No More Fun and Games: Journal of Female Liberation US: Boston, Mass. Cell 16 and Roxanne Dunbar Betsy Warrior & Dana Densmore, male violence, separatist feminism and female self-defence. 1968-1973.

Notes from the Second Year Journal: The New York Radical Women. 1970 Journal: The New York Radical Women. US: Somerville: New England Free Press.

1968 The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, Anna Koedt, in Notes from the Second Year Journal: The New York Radical Women. 1996 The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, Anna Koedt in Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott eds., Feminism and Sexuality: a reader 1996 US. NY: Columbia University Press.