1. Women and Gender in the Ancient World

• Enheduanna: Hymns to Inana (c. 2250 BCE)
• The Code of the Assura (c. 1075 BCE)
• Sappho : Poetry fragments (c. 600s BCE)
• Herodotus: The History of the Persian Wars (c. 430 BCE)
• Ban Zhao: Lessons for a Woman (c. 80 CE)
• Plutarch: Moralia, "Bravery of Women" (c. 100 CE)
• Soranus: Soranus' Gynecology (early 2nd century CE)
• Juvenal: Satire VI: Don't Marry (c. 115 CE)
• The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas (c. 202 CE)
• St. Jerome: "On a Girl's Education" Letter CVII to Laeta (c. 403 CE)

2. Women in the Early Modern Era

• Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love (Chapter LVIII) (1373)
• Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales (1392)
• Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405)
• Joan of Arc: Letter to the King of England (1429)
• Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1440)
• Malleus Maleficarum (1486)
• Veronica Franco: Letter to a Mother (in Venice) (late 1500s)
• Queen Elizabeth: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
• Ursula de Jesus: Visions of the World to Come (1650)
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: The Poet's Answer to Sor Filotea de La Cruz (1691)
• Mary Astell: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1697)
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Letter on Smallpox Inoculations (1717)
• Lady Hong: "Diary of Lady Hong, Korean Queen" (1750)
• William Blackstone: "Of Husband and Wife," Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

3. Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America

• Deodat Lawson: "A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches, Letter to Nathaniel Higginson"
• Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson (1637)
• Margaret Brent’s Request for Voting Rights (1648)
• Anne Bradstreet: “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (mid-1600s)
• Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother (1662)
• Elizabeth Sprigs: Letter from an indentured servant (1756)
• Phillis Wheatley: “His Excellency General Washington” (1775)
• Abigail Adams: Remember the Ladies Letter to John Adams (1776)
• Cherokee Women : "Letter to Governor Benjamin Franklin, September 8, 1787" (1787)
• Benjamin Rush: Thoughts on Female Education (1787)

4. Women's Rights in the Late Modern Era

• Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay: Letters on Education (1790)
• Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)
• Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
• Mary Hays: Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women (1798)
• Priscilla Bell Wakefield: Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex; with Suggestions for Its Improvement (1798)
• Savitribai Phule: "Poem: "Go, Get Education" (mid-1800s)
• Caroline Norton: Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855)
• Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women (1876)
• Tarabai Shinde: A Comparison Between Women and Men (1882)
• Emmeline Pankhurst: Freedom or Death (1913)
• Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (1929)

5. American Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century

• Fanny Kemble: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1838)
• Catherine Beecher: Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)
• Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
• Amelia Jenks Bloomer: Alas! Poor Adam (1870)
• Page Act (1875)
• Susan B. Anthony: "The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future" (1897)
• Victoria Woodhull: Lecture on Constitutional Equality (1871)
• Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life among the Piutes (1883)
• Elinore Pruitt Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914)

6. Votes for Women: Suffrage in the U.S.

• Sarah Grimke: "Letter III: The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts" from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
• Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
• Lucretia Mott: Discourse on Women (1849)
• Sojourner Truth: "Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Address to the New York Legislature (1854)
• Minor v. Happersett (1874)
• Francis Parkman: Some of the Reasons against Woman Suffrage (1883?)
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: "Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women” (1895)
• Mary Church Terrell: "The Progress of Colored Women" (1898)
• Anna Howard Shaw: Address on the Place of Women in Society (1905)
• Ida Husted Harper: Statement before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage (1908)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Humanness of Women (1910)
• Jane Addams: Why Women Should Vote - January 1910 (1910)
• Alice Paul: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee (1915)
• Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: The Submerged Half (c. 1916)
• Carrie Chapman Catt: "Equal Suffrage – Aug. 3, 1916" (1916)
• Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920)
• William Pickens: "The Woman Voter Hits the Color Line" (1920)
• Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot” (1927)
• Eleanor Roosevelt: Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do (1928)

7. Women's Reform and Justice Movements in the U.S.

• Frances Wright: Of Free Enquiry (1828)
• Lydia Maria Child: "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans" (1833)
• Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
• Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887)
• Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” (1892)
• Frances Willard: Address before the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1890s?)
• Clara Barton: Clara Barton: The Red Cross in Peace and War (1898)
• Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors (1892)
• Ida B. Wells: Lynching: Our National Crime (1909)
• Rachel Carson: Silent Spring (1962)

8. Women's Work and Labor Movements

• Mary Paul: Letters from Lowell Mills (1845)
• Isabella Beeton: Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861)
• Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
• Lucy Parsons: "The Negro: Let Him Leave Politics to the Politician and Prayers to the Preacher" (1886)
• Clara Zetkin: Women's Work and the Trade Unions (1887)
• Jack London: The People of the Abyss (1902)
• Florence Kelley: Child Labor and Women's Suffrage (1905)
• Kelly Miller: "The Economic Handicap of the Negro in the North" (1906)
• Muller v. Oregon (1908)
• Clara Lemlich: “Life in the Shop” (1909)
• Pauline Newman: Oral History of work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (early 1900s)
• Rose Schneiderman: "Speech on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, April 2, 1911" (1911)
• Leonora O'Reily: "Statement to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, March 13, 1912" (1912)
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Truth About the Paterson Strike (1914)
• Helena Swanwick: The War in Its Effect Upon Women (1916)
• The National Women's Trade Union League: Women's Work and War (1919)
• Dolores Huerta: Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor (1969)
• Equal Pay Act (1963)
• Executive Order 11246: Equal Employment Opportunity (1965)

9. Feminism and Equal Rights in the U.S.

• Edith M. Stern : "Women are Household Slaves" (1949)
• Hoyt v. Florida (1961)
• Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique (1963)
• Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women (1963)
• Fannie Lou Hamer: Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention (1964)
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964)
• Pauli Murray and Mary O. Eastwood: Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII (1965)
• Casey Hayden and Mary King: Sex and Caste (1965)
• National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose (1966)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Redstockings: "Miss America Pageant Protest: "No More Miss America!" (1968)
• Sex-Segregated Employment Ads (1968)
• Ella Baker: "Ella Baker: "The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle” (1969)
• Jo Ann Robinson: "The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It" (1987)
• Gloria Steinem: Living the Revolution (1970)
• Shirley Chisholm: Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)
• Phyllis Schlafly: "What's Wrong with "Equal Rights" for Women?" (1972)
• Equal Rights Amendment (1972)
• "Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972" (1972)
• Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
• Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America” (1974)
• Taylor v. Louisiana (1975)
• Audre Lorde: "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" (1977)
• Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986)
• Bella Abzug: "Women and the Fate of the Earth - March 17, 1990" (1990)
• Sandra Day O'Connor: Portia's Progress (1991)
• Violence Against Women Act (1994)
• United States v. Virginia (1996)
• Patsy Mink: Speech on the 25th Anniversary of Title IX (1997)
• Billie Jean King: "University of Massachusetts, Amherst Commencement Address" (2000)

10. Reproductive Rights in the U.S.

• Comstock Act (1873)
• Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment” (1919)
• Buck v. Bell (1927)
• Margaret Sanger: "Awakening and Revolt" (1931)
• Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
• Margaret Cerullo's Story (1968)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Relf v. Weinberger (1974)
• Madrigal v. Quilligan (1978)
• International Campaign for Abortion Rights: "Press Release: International Day of Action March 31, 1979" (1979)
• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Concurrence in Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska v. Carhart (2000)
• Dobbs v. Jackson (2022)

11. Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage in the U.S.

• Emma Goldman: Marriage and Love (1910)
• Mann Act (1910)
• Mackenzie v. Hare (1915)
• Christine Jorgensen: The Story of My Life (1953)
• Denise Harmon: Stonewall Means Fight Back! (1973)
• Sylvia Rivera: "Sylvia Rivera's "Y'all Better Quiet Down" speech," (1973)
• Adrienne Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980)
• June Jordan: "A New Politics of Sexuality" (1991)
• Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
• Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

12. Modern, Postmodern, and Postcolonial Feminisms

• Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (1949)
• Luce Irigiray: "Women on the Market" from This Sex Which is Not One" (1977)
• Hazel Carby: White Woman Listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood (1982)
• Chandra Talpade Mohanty: Under Western Eyes (1984)
• Xiao Lu: "China: Feudal Attitudes, Party Control, and Half the Sky" (1984)
• Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana: To Be a Woman (1984)
• Audre Lorde: The Master's Tools will Never Dismantle the Master's House (1984)
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)
• María Lugones: Toward a Decolonial Feminism (2010)

13. Intersectionality in the U.S.

• Zitkala-Ša: “The Cutting of My Long Hair” (1900?)
• Jessie Fauset: "Some Notes on Color" (1922)
• Marita O. Bonner: "On Being Young—A Woman—And Colored" (1925)
• Zora Neale Hurston: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
• Mary McLeod Bethune: "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?” (1939)
• Combahee River Collective: The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
• bell hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)
• Anita Hill: Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas (1991)
• African American Women in Defense of Ourselves (1991)
• Alicia Garza: "A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement" (2014)
• African American Policy Forum: Say Her Name (2015)
• Kimberlé Crenshaw: Keynote at Women of the World 2016 (2016)
• Judith Heumann: Our Fight for Disability Rights and Why We're Not Done Yet (TED Talk) (2018)
• Oprah Winfrey: Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech (2018)
• Tarana Burke: Full Power of Women Speech (2018)

14. Women's Rights are Human Rights

• "Elena's Story" (1950s?)
• Indira Gandhi: What Educated Women Can Do (1974)
• "Fabienne's Story" (1970s?)
• "A Mother's Life in Rural Pernambuco, Brazil" (1982)
• Rigoberta Menchú Tum: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (1992)
• Hillary Clinton: "Women's Rights are Human Rights, United Nations Speech" (1995)
• Benazir Bhutto: Address at the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995)
• Charlotte Bunch: Through Women's Eyes: Global Forces Facing Women in the 21st Century (1995)
• Queen Noor of Jordan: Remarks at the National Organization of Arab-American Women Banquet (1995)
• Wangari Maathai: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2004)
• Betty Williams: Peace in the World is Everybody's Business (2007)

15. Justice Movements in the 21st Century

• Shirin Ebadi: "Iran Awakening: Human Rights, Women, and Islam - February 7, 2008" (2008)
• Luisa D Diogo: Women for a Better World (2008)
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Nobel Lecture: A Voice for Freedom (2011)
• Michelle Bachelet: Time to Make the Promise of Equality a Reality (2011)
• Michelle Obama: Remarks at the 2012 International Women of Courage Awards (2012)
• Malala Yousafzai: Nobel Lecture (2014)
• Emma Watson: HeForShe U.N. Speech (2014)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All be Feminists (2015)
• Atifete Jahjaga: Support of women's property rights in Kosovo (2015)
• Joyce Banda: Wheelock College Commencement Address (2015)
• Carmen Perez: "Women's March on Washington- Jan. 21, 2017" (2017)
• Emma Gonzalez: "'We call B.S.' address at gun control rally" (2018)
• Autumn Peltier: World Water Day at the U.N. (2018)
• Great Thunberg: Address at World Economic Forum: Our House is on Fire (2019)
• Josina Machel: Male Violence Against Women: the next frontier in humanity TEDx Talk (2020)
• Kamala Harris: "The Status of Women is the Status of Democracy, March 2021" (2021)
• United Nations: Sustainable Development Goal 5 (2022)

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