The book, compiled from the works of the most prominent and significant authors who dealt with the situation of women in industrial and post-industrial society, presents almost two centuries of the movement for women's rights - feminism. These are the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Georges Sand, Friedrich Engels and August Bebel, Zinaida Gippius and Alexandra Kollontai, Simone de Beauvoir and Elena Bonner and many, many others.