- In what year, and how, did American women get the vote?
- Who is the only woman the United States government has ever honored with a commemorative coin?
- 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?
- When did the first issue of Ms. Magazine appear?
- What important document was issued at Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848?
- When, and by whom, was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) introduced?
- What was referred to in Washington as the “Bunny Law”?
- What common feminist slogan was first used at an anti-war protest in Washington DC in 1968?
- 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?
- What was the Oak Room Invasion of 1969?
- How was Our Bodies, Ourselves written? By whom?
- When was the National Organization of Women (NOW) founded? What was its policy towards men at the time? Who was its first chair?
- 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?
- Who wrote the book Confessions of a Feminist Man?
- On the fiftieth anniversary of women’s suffrage, there was a large demonstration on 5th Ave, NYC. What was the march?
- Who was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1975?
- Who released the popular children’s album Free to Be You and Me?
- Explain the original purpose of the “powder room.”
- When was the UN Decade for Women?
- When did NASA accept its first women astronauts?
- Since what year have women outnumbered men in America?
- What US college was first to allow women?
- Describe the origin of the I.U.D.
(Answers tomorrow!)