Women’s Writing
- Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
- Rita Felski
- Sandra Gilbert
- Audre Lorde
- Nancy Miller
- Naomi Schor
- Elaine Showalter
- Janet Todd
- bell hooks
- Judith Kegan Gardiner, “On Female Identity and Writing by Women”. Critical Inquiry, Winter, 1981, Vol. 8, No. 2, Writing and Sexual Difference
(Winter, 1981), pp. 347-361. - Andrea Long Chu, “Against ‘Women’s Writing’ Rachel Cusk’s gender fundamentalism fully surfaces in her latest novel, Parade” (Vulture, June 28, 2024)
- Minda Rae Amiran, “What Women’s Literature?” College English, Feb., 1978, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Feb., 1978), pp. 653-662.
- Melissa E. Sanchez, “What Were Women Writers?” Criticism, Volume 63, Number 1-2, Winter/Spring 2021, pp. 63-73
Ecriture Feminine
- Dani Cavallaro, French Feminist Theory: An Introduction (London: Continuum, 2003)
- Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of Medusa”
- Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément, The Newly Born Woman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986)
- Verena Andermatt Conley, Hélène Cixous (New York: Harvester, 1992)
- Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs, Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)
- Ann Rosalind Jones, “Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of ‘L’Ecriture Feminine'”. Feminist Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer, 1981), pp. 247-263
Trans Women’s Writing
- Rachel Carroll, Transgender and The Literary Imagination: Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
- Juliet Jacques, “Who gets to be a woman writer?” (PEN Transmissions, May 17, 2018)
- Juliet Jacques, “Écriture trans-féminine?” (MAL Journal)
- Vera Nünning and Corinna Assmann (ed.),The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies (Palgrave, 2025)
- Aida Ylanan, “Women’s Prize stands by its nomination of trans author Torrey Peters after open letter” (Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2021)
Diversity and its Discontents
- “Abolish Women’s Studies” (The New Criterion, February 1998)
- “Why women’s studies programs in Canada are more important than ever” (The Conversation, September 19, 2022)
- Christopher Rufo, D.E.I. Programs Are Getting in the Way of Liberal Education (The New York Times, July 27, 2023)
- Bob Armstrong, “A Likely Story: The “Diversity” Myth Consumes the Canadian Literary Scene” (C2C Journal, March 2, 2024)
- Carrie N. Baker, Michele Tracy Berger, Christ Craven, and Janell Hobson, “University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women’s and Gender Studies” (Ms Magazine, September 11, 2025)
- Alan Blinder, “Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender” (The New York Times, January 30, 2026)
- Kathryn Palmer, “Can Embattled Women’s and Gender Studies Programs Survive?” (Inside Higher Ed, February 6, 2026)
- Katherine Knott, “Texas A&M Faculty Challenge System’s Race and Gender Rules” (Inside Higher Ed, August 5, 2026)
Here is a bilbliography that may provide further ideas.