A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"This chick be crazy!" or so the husband of the main character thinks after he forcibly locks his wife away to "cure" her possible mental illness. There's a lot of symbolism and "wink-wink, nudge-nudge" moments in this early feminist short story that could shed some light on Woolf's ideas. - The Handmaid's Tale
Check out this dystopian sci-fi novel where women have zero control over their lives. It's terrifying, and not so far off the world Virginia hailed from.