Multiple Hugo-winning fan writer and professor of literature Susan Wood and others organized the " feminist panel " at the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention against considerable resistance.

Trained in Continental philosophy and published on Hegel, Butler is better known for her engagement with feminist theory and as the ' mother ' ( along with English literature scholar Eve Sedgwick ) of Queer Theory.

An entire genre of Orthodox feminist literature now exists, and has caused changes within some Orthodox synagogues and communities ( The Status of Women in Halakhic Judaism, Berman, Tradition, 14: 2, 1973 .).

The term, thealogy, increasingly appeared in feminist literature associated with the Neopagan Goddess movement during the 1980s to 1990s.

Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.

In the English literature, the trichotomy between biological sex, psychological gender, and social sex role first appeared in a feminist paper on transsexualism in 1978.

In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s — in the first and second waves of feminism — was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature.

" She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: ( 1 ) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, ( 2 ) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, ( 3 ) to rediscover old texts, ( 4 ) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, ( 5 ) to resist sexism in literature, and ( 6 ) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.

The term feminist literature or woman's literature was shifting during this period.

While some believed that a special term for literature written for women by women about women's experiences were necessary, others were concerned that feminist literature served to place the female writers and readers outside the community, in an isolated cycle.

In the late 1970s, science fiction fan and scholar of Canadian literature Susan Wood helped pioneer the study of feminist science fiction, and ( along with immigrant editor Judith Merril ) brought new respectability to the study of Canadian science fiction, paving the way for the rise of such phenomena as the French-Canadian science fiction magazine Solaris.

Also see ecotopian literature and feminist science fiction

In feminist literature, matriarchy and patriarchy are not conceived as simple mirrors of each other.

This period saw a wave of feminist literature on the gendering of Modernism and psychoanalytical misogyny, by a generation of writers who saw her as an early icon of the feminist movement.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is perhaps best remembered for Sonnets from the Portuguese but her long poem Aurora Leigh is one of the classics of 19th century feminist literature.

Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea stands as a seminal work in feminist literature.

It is also considered a classic in feminist literature for its depiction of a woman's pioneer struggle to forge an independent career in a society only grudgingly tolerant of educated women.

After the writing of Amtmandens Døtre, she focused largely on reviews and essays about literature, many of which solidified Collett as the first feminist literary critic in Norway.

The book might also be described as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself.

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

Femspec is a feminist academic journal specializing in speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, mythic explorations in poetry and post-modern fiction, and horror.

The decade also saw the framing of FGM — along with other issues in the domestic sphere, such as dowry deaths — as a human rights violation, rather than as a health concern, and this encouraged academic interest, including from feminist legal scholars.

Joanna Russ ( February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011 ) was an American writer, academic and feminist.

* Barnita Bagchi: Indian feminist and academic

Camille Paglia, a self-described " dissident feminist " who has often been at odds with other academic feminists, argues that the Marxist-inspired interpretation of misogyny so prevalent in second-wave feminism is seriously flawed.

Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, " There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful.

The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money ( 1955 ), and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards ( see below ).

Biologist and feminist academic Anne Fausto-Sterling rejects the discourse of biological versus social determinism and advocates a deeper analysis of how interactions between the biological being and the social environment influence individuals ' capacities.

The feminist academic and author Sally R. Munt argues that American Beauty uses its " art house " trappings to direct its message of non-conformity primarily to the middle classes, and that this approach is a " cliché of bourgeois preoccupation ... the underlying premise being that the luxury of finding an individual ' self ' through denial and renunciation is always open to those wealthy enough to choose, and sly enough to present themselves sympathetically as a rebel.

* Dorothy Dinnerstein ( 1923-1992 ), feminist activist, author and academic.

Frame's writing became the focus of academic criticism from the late 1970s, with approaches ranging from Marxist and social realist, to feminist and poststructuralist.

In 2011 Jennifer M. Woolston published an academic essay examining Nancy Spungen's life from a feminist perspective.

Australian academic and writer, Kerryn Goldsworthy, writes that " From the beginning of her writing career Garner was regarded as, and frequently called, a stylist, a realist, and a feminist ".

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun ( January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003 ) was an American academic and prolific feminist author of both important academic studies and popular mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.

Her academic books include the feminist study Writing a Woman's Life ( 1988 ).

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective.

Non-heterosexual is used in feminist and gender studies fields as well as general academic literature to help differentiate between sexual identities chosen, prescribed and simply assumed, with varying understanding of implications of those sexual identities.

* Women's Classical Caucus, an academic classical feminist organization

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roxon became close friends with critic and rock manager Danny Fields, Village Voice journalist Blair Sabol, musician and writer Lenny Kaye ( later the guitarist in Patti Smith's band and compiler of the original Nuggets LP ), photographers Linda McCartney and Leee Black Childers and Australian academic, author and feminist Germaine Greer.

Mary Daly ( October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010 ) was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian.

Well-known members of the group included the writer Pat Califia and feminist academic Gayle Rubin.