- In what year, and how, did American women get the vote?
1920, 19th Amendment - Who is the only woman the United States government has ever honored with a commemorative coin?
Susan B. Anthony - 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 - When did the first issue of Ms. Magazine appear?
first Dec 20, 1971 as a 40-pg supplement in New York magazine
first full issue was in the spring of 1972 - What important document was issued at Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848?
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions - When, and by whom, was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) introduced?
1923, the National Woma(e?)n’s Party - What was referred to in Washington as the “Bunny Law”?
The sex provision in the Civil Rights Act - What common feminist slogan was first used at an anti-war protest in Washington DC in 1968?
Sisterhood is powerful - 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 - What was the Oak Room Invasion of 1969?
NOW sponsored an invasion of the men¹s-only clubroom at The Plaza in NYC - 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. - 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 - 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. - Who wrote the book Confessions of a Feminist Man?
Floyd Dell - 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)] Women¹s March For Equality - Who was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1975?
Twelve women - Who released the popular children’s album Free to Be You and Me?
Marlo Thomas - Explain the original purpose of the “powder room.”
men powdered their wigs there in Colonial times - When was the UN Decade for Women?
began in 1976, of all years! - When did NASA accept its first women astronauts?
1978 - Since what year have women outnumbered men in America?
1950 - What US college was first to allow women?
Oberlin (1833) - 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.
Thanks to Williams College for the quiz and the answers.