Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/February

• February 1975 – First publication of The Female Man, a feminist science fiction novel by Joanna Russ, which follows the lives of four women living in parallel worlds who visit each other and encounter new notions of what it means to be a woman
• February 1976 – Andrea Dworkin organizes public pickets of the movie Snuff out of which the activist group Women Against Pornography eventually grew
• 14 February 1998 – First V-Day benefit to raise money to end violence against women, inspired by Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues
• 18 February 1934 – Birth of Audre Lorde, African-American feminist and poet who criticized earlier feminists, such as Betty Friedan, for not considering the effects of race and sexual orientation on feminism
• 19 February 1963 – First publication of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which inspired second-wave feminism