Feminist movements were born among new bourgeoisie women, and were closely related to French Industrial Revolution and American Abolition Movement. From the mid-19th century to the present, feminism has experienced three waves. However, regardless of theoretical faction, feminists and feminist critics all recognize the historical fact that women are suppressed and discriminated against by men. Based on ‘patriarchy’ and ‘gender’, they discuss sexual issues to rewrite the history of literature and literary criticism, and rediscover female writers and works buried under the male society and patriarchal culture to construct ‘female discourse’ to support ‘female writing’.