Feminism

1. In what year, and how, did American women get the vote?

2. Who is the only woman the United States government has ever honored with a commemorative coin?

3. Looking at a photograph of famous women at the formation of the National Women's Political Caucus, Nixon asked his secretary of state what he thought it looked like. What was the response?

4. When did the first issue of Ms. Magazine appear?
   1/2 credit- first full issue was in the spring of 1972

5. What important document was issued at Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848?

6. When, and by whom, was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) introduced?

7. What was referred to in Washington as the "Bunny Law"?

8. What common feminist slogan was first used at an anti-war protest in Washington DC in 1968?

9. On the subject of slogans - The office of the editor-in-chief of a popular women's magazine was taken over for nine hours on March 18, 1970 by a large group of women led by Susan Brownmiller. What magazine was it, and what was and is still the slogan of the magazine?

10. What was the Oak Room Invasion of 1969?

11. How was Our Bodies, Ourselves written? By whom?

12. When was the National Organization of Women (NOW) founded? What was its policy towards men at the time? Who was its first chair?

13. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique is one of the most famous feminist works, and the theory is widely known. It is less well known that she has also written about the feminist mystique, in her later book, The Second Stage. What is this feminist mystique?

14. Who wrote the book Confessions of a Feminist Man?

15. On the fiftieth anniversary of women's suffrage, there was a large demonstration on 5th Ave, NYC. What was the march?

16. Who was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1975?

17. Who released the popular children's album Free to Be You and Me?

18. Explain the original purpose of the "powder room."

19. When was the UN Decade for Women?

20. When did NASA accept its first women astronauts?

21. Since what year have women outnumbered men in America?

22. What US college was first to allow women?

23. What do the following acronyms stand for? [And no, these are not editorial statements...]

    NARAL -
    WEAL -
    SCUM -

    Extra Credit: For what was the author of the SCUM Manifesto perhaps more famous?

24. List ten currently available brands of birth control pills.

25. Describe the origin of the I.U.D.

Match these famous women with their lovers, and tell why each woman in column A is famous:

Column A	Column B
Willa Cather	1. Garry Trudeau
Simone de Beauvoir	2. Sarah Churchill
Agatha Christie	3. Kenneth Durant
Gertrude Stein	4. Max Mallowan
Crystal Eastman	5. Frances Blood
Queen Anne	6. Alice B. Toklas
Genevieve Taggard	7. Vita Sackville-West
Jane Pauley	8. Walter Fuller
Mary Wollstonecraft	9. Edith Lewish
Virginia Woolf	10. Jean-Paul Sartre

The top of Stetson is engraved with the names of famous thinkers, authors, scientists, etc., all of them male. List the names in the order they appear (starting at any point on the building), and suggest a female alternative for each. The alternative should begin with the same letter as the original. Extra credit if the women start with the same letter and worked in the same field as the men.

WHO SAID IT? Give the author, date, and work (if applicable) for each of the following.

1. That man ... says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and aren't I a woman?

2. To be a woman and a writer/ is double mischief, for/ the world will slight her/ who slights "the servile house," and who would rather/ make odes than beds.

3. When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

4. I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made Œem to match the men.

5. If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people [the Americans] ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

6. Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

7. Speaker 1: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother.
   Speaker 2: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much as you are.

8. Men are what their mothers made them.

9. The usual masculine disillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.

10. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

11. It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

12. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

13. This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

14. What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

15. It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

16. She knows wot's wot, she does.

1. The first woman doctor in America

2. The first woman bishop in the Anglican church

3. The first American woman in space

4. The first woman in the US Congress

5. The first woman to be elected to the Senate in her own right (not after her husband died, or such, rather, in a real election)

6. The first woman to be a candidate for the US presidency

7. The first woman to be a member of the Christian clergy

8. The first woman to be a chaplain for the US military

9. The first civilian to sleep on a US Carrier

10. The first woman to receive the Order of Merit in England

11. The first female vice-president in the Americas

12. The Vatican's first female ambassador

13. The first female chair of the Atomic Energy Commission

14. The first American to discover and report a comet

15. The first person ever on a postage stamp

16. The first woman on a US postage stamp

17. The first female motorman trainee in the NYC subway system

18. The first woman member of the US Supreme Court

19. The first female pilot for a major US airline

20. The first women in the United Mine Workers of America to actually work INSIDE a mine

21. The first woman ever employed by the US Government

22. The first woman in the National Labor Relations Board

23. The first woman editor of a large American newspaper

24. The first female network news anchor

25. The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel

26. The first woman to reach the North Pole

27. The first woman to swin the English Channel

The nod to male chauvinism - just for a glimpse of the other side

1. What's special about Mt. Athos in northern Greece?

2. In medieval France and Spain the nobleman who owned the land had the right to take any girl of his domain on her wedding night. What was this custom known as?