women's writing
Literature by females
Women's writing refers to literature produced by women, often studied as a distinct category in literary criticism and publishing.
The term can simply denote authorship, but more often it implies attention to female experience, perspective, or concerns.
Some find the category useful for recovering overlooked voices; others consider it limiting, suggesting women's work belongs in a separate sphere from "real" literature.
The bookstore had a women's writing section.
- autobiographiesSelf-narrated life accounts
- memoirsWritten personal history
- personal essayAutobiographical prose work
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- literary salonHosted intellectual gathering
drama · sisterhood · gender equality · second wave · silenced · intersectionality · feminist theory · pseudonym · postcolonialism · female voice · patriarchy · bluestocking · diaspora · suffragette movement · novels · identity · Harlem Renaissance · Brontë
- feminismfeminism, feminist theory, gender equality, feminist novels, feminist themes
- gender studiesfemininity, masculinity, gender norms, gender fluidity, androgyny
- women's poetryfemale poets, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, poetesses
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- Feminist Theorypatriarchy, male gaze, intersectionality, female gaze, Virginia Woolf