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(Short Stories for Students)
The Awakening, Kate Chopin's 1899 novel, tells of Edna Pointellier, a traditional wife and mother who becomes "awakened" to sexual and spiritual independence after an extramarital affair.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the story of a woman who lacks an outlet for her creativity and descends into madness.
To learn about the suffragette movement and the struggle for women's rights in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, see Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences (1992), by the pioneering feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Adrienne Rich's poetry, particularly her collection, Diving Into the Wreck (1973), explores feminism, female sexuality and women's roles in society.