This is a list of important literature in the development of feminism, listed by the year they were first published.

1953

• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, ISBN 0679724516

1963

• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, ISBN 0393322572

1989

• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender), Judith Butler, ISBN 0415924995

1992

• Backlash : The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi, ISBN 0385425074

2004

• Not My Mother's Sister : Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism, Astrid Henry, ISBN 025321713X