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The field of cultural/literary studies focuses on the identification of the phenomena responsible for the marginalization / subalternization of the subjects. Thus, the analysis of the waves of the feminist movement through the eyes of literature makes possible a greater approximation of society to the facts that have occurred and occur in the world, in order that the fight against inequality and patriarchalism perpetuate and become an increasingly tangible reality. It is the purpose of this article to contextualize the feminist waves through the analysis of two stories: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, originally published in 1892 and "Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros, published in 1991. For this, we base this research mainly on the works of Pinto (2010), Devereux (2014), Anzaldua (1987), Bittencourt (2015), Walter (2015) and Saffioti (1986) and we realize that the almost 100 years that separate the two histories were marked by various achievements of the feminist agenda. Through the waves it became possible to study systematically the movement against oppression experienced by women and to situate literature as means of illustrating this path. Since "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Woman Hollering Creek" well represent the two moments and speeches of the first and third waves respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]