Fascinating essay Elan thank you. You've used some perfect examples to highlight the use of art and lit in the movement and growth of feminism across the span of the last century.

Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury set, particularly those who lived and worked at Charleston, always did strike me as early feminists, given their collective doesn't seem to have made much notice of gender.

Other personal favourites of mine were also here. I love Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency' collection of photographs. I find her work really thought-provoking. And in 'Men Explain Things to Me', Rebecca Solnit describing the experience of so many women, leading to the popular use of the term 'mansplaining'.... seemingly 'small' acts (taking a photo, writing an article), have been really significant.

Excellent work, thank you for sharing it with us here at Counter Arts.