Feminism

1. In what year, and how, did American women get the vote?
   1920, 19th Amendment

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

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?
   A burlesque

4. When did the first issue of Ms. Magazine appear?
   first Dec 20, 1971 as a 40-pg supplement in New York magazine
   1/2 credit- first full issue was in the spring of 1972

5. What important document was issued at Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848?
   The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

6. When, and by whom, was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) introduced?
   1923, the National Woma(e?)n's Party

7. What was referred to in Washington as the "Bunny Law"?
   The sex provision in the Civil Rights Act

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

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?
   Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman

10. What was the Oak Room Invasion of 1969?
    NOW sponsored an invasion of the menıs-only clubroom at The Plaza in NYC

11. How was Our Bodies, Ourselves written? By whom?
    12 white, middle-class women ages 24-40 in Boston, 1969 were involved in a group. The book emerged from a series of papers from the group.

12. When was the National Organization of Women (NOW) founded? What was its policy towards men at the time? Who was its first chair?
    1966, men were very specifically INCLUDED, Dr. Kathryn F. Clarenbach

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?
    A false polarization of feminist and family‹a denial that the core of who a woman is is fulfilled by love, nurture, and home. It is possible to have a home, family and love and still be feminist, she says.

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

15. On the fiftieth anniversary of women's suffrage, there was a large demonstration on 5th Ave, NYC. What was the march?
    [The first annual (not critical)] Womenıs March For Equality

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

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

18. Explain the original purpose of the "powder room."
    men powdered their wigs there in Colonial times

19. When was the UN Decade for Women?
    began in 1976, of all years!

20. When did NASA accept its first women astronauts?
    1978

21. Since what year have women outnumbered men in America?
    1950

22. What US college was first to allow women?
    Oberlin (1833)

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

    NARAL - National Abortion Rights Action League
    WEAL - Women's Equity Action League
    SCUM - Society for Cutting Up Men

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

24. List ten currently available brands of birth control pills.
    Brevicon, Demulen, Genora, Levlen, Lo/Ovral, Loestrin, Micronor, Modicon, Norcept-E, Nordette, Norethin, Norinyl, Norlestrin, Nor-Q D, Ortho-Novum, Ovcon, Ovral, Ovrette, Tri-Levlen, Tri-Norinyl, Triphasil

25. Describe the origin of the I.U.D.
    pits were inserted into the uterus of a camel so it would not get pregnant on long desert voyages.

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?
   Sojourner Truth, 1851, Speech at Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio

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.
   Dilys Laing, 1957, Sonnet to a Sister in Error

3. When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
   Betty Naomi Friedan, 1963, The Feminine Mystique

4. I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made Œem to match the men.
   George Eliot (Marian Evans Cross), 1859, Adam Bede

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.
   Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840, Democracy in America

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.
   Virginia Woolf, 1929, A Room of One's Own

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.
   Henrik Ibsen, 1879, A Doll's House

8. Men are what their mothers made them.
   Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860, The Conduct of Life

9. The usual masculine disillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.
   Margaret Mitchell, 1936, Gone With the Wind

10. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848, First Womanıs Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York

11. It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
    Anaïs Nin, 1933, The Diary of Anaïs Nin

12. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955, Gift from the Sea

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.
    Simone de Beauvoir, 1949-50, The Second Sex

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?
    Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 1934, Seven Gothic Tales

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.
    Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

16. She knows wot's wot, she does.
    Charles Dickens, 1836-7, Pickwick Papers

1. The first woman doctor in America
   Elizabeth Blackwell

2. The first woman bishop in the Anglican church
   Barbara ?????????

3. The first American woman in space
   Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova-Nikolayev (1963)

4. The first woman in the US Congress
   Jeanette Rankin

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)
   Barbara Mikulski (D-Md)

6. The first woman to be a candidate for the US presidency
   Victoria Claflin Woodhull (National Womanıs Suffrage ticket)

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

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

9. The first civilian to sleep on a US Carrier
   Berit Hafstad (Norwegian Parliament)

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

11. The first female vice-president in the Americas
    Isabel Peron (NOT Eva‹this was his first wife)

12. The Vatican's first female ambassador
    Bernadette Olowo

13. The first female chair of the Atomic Energy Commission
    Dixy Lee Ray

14. The first American to discover and report a comet
    Maria Mitchell

15. The first person ever on a postage stamp
    Queen Victoria

16. The first woman on a US postage stamp
    Queen Isabella of Spain

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

18. The first woman member of the US Supreme Court
    Sandra Day O'Connor

19. The first female pilot for a major US airline
    Bonnie Linda Tiburz

20. The first women in the United Mine Workers of America to actually work INSIDE a mine
    Diana Baldwin, Anita Cherry

21. The first woman ever employed by the US Government
    Jennie Douglas (cutting & trimming US currency)

22. The first woman in the National Labor Relations Board
    Betty Murphy

23. The first woman editor of a large American newspaper
    Margaret Fuller

24. The first female network news anchor
    Barbara Walters

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

26. The first woman to reach the North Pole
    Fran Phipps (Canada, 1971)

27. The first woman to swin the English Channel
    Gertrude Ederle (1926)

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

1. What's special about Mt. Athos in northern Greece?
   It likes to call itself an independent country, Has ONLY men - even livestock are all male, 20 monastaries within 20 miles

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?
   Droit du Seigneur or Right of the Landlord