The Spinifex Quiz Book

Susan Hawthorne writes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. A novel, The Falling Woman was published in 1992, and in 1993 her collection of poems, The Language in my Tongue was published in the volume Four New Poets. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have been published in magazines and anthologies in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America, and a German translation of The Spinifex Quiz Book will be published in 1994. In 1989 she received the Pandora Florence James Award for Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Publishing.

Other books by Susan Hawthorne: Anthologies Difference (1985) Moments of Desire (1989/90) with Jenny Pausacker The Exploding Frangipani (1990) with Cathie Dunsford Angels of Power (1991) with Renate Klein Poetry The Language in My Tongue/Four New Poets (1993)

Spinifex is an Australian native desert grass that is drought resistant and holds the earth together. In central Australia spinifex grass is traditionally burnt by Aboriginal people as a means of regenerating the land.

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Spinifex Press Pty Ltd, 504 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, Vic. 3051 Australia First published by Spinifex Press, 1991 Second edition published 1993 Copyright © these questions and the collection Susan Hawthorne, 1991, 1993. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of the book. Typeset in Garamond Light by Claire Warren, Melbourne Made and Printed in Australia by The Book Printer, Victoria National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: CIP Hawthorne, Susan, 1951– . The Spinifex quiz book. 2nd ed. Bibliography. Includes index. ISBN 1 875559 15 9. 1. Women – Miscellanea. I. Hawthorne, Susan, 1951– . Spinifex book of women’s answers. II. Title. III. Title: Spinifex book of women’s answers. 305.42

Contents Acknowledgements

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Introduction

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Science and Spirit Questions Answers

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Herstory

Lives

Time and Place Questions Answers

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Ideology

Sport and Culture Questions Answers

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Sources

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Acknowledgements There are many women to thank for both the genesis and the final shape of this book. The idea for the book came up in a meeting of the Australian Feminist Book Fortnight group, because there was a genuinely collective need for such a book. My thanks to the group for the idea. Thanks, too, to the individuals in the group who provided the initial questions: Judith Rodriguez, Sue Martin, Kate Veitch and, in particular, Jennifer Lang who provided numerous questions and organized them into sections. I would also like to thank Cathie Dunsford, Diana Ellerton, Sandy Jeffs, Renate Klein, Jocelynne Scutt, Dale Spender and Lynne Spender for providing questions in areas I knew little about and which helped the overall balance of the book. I would like to acknowledge the writers of the books in the bibliography, as well as other books not listed, without whose research this book would simply not have been possible. Finally, thanks to the magical workings of Claire Warren, typesetter extraordinaire, to Elizabeth Wood Ellem for her fantastic index, and to Liz Nicholson for her imaginative cover design.

Introduction Did you know that the first known writer in the world was a woman; as was the first novelist? But it is not only in areas such as writing that women are responsible for cultural advancement. Many cultures credit a female deity with creating the world and with inventing all manner of things, including the wheel! Many of the world’s oldest artefacts depict women, and Marija Gimbutas, archeologist of Old Europe, claims that there is no evidence of a father figure in the oldest known historical human era, the paleolithic era (Gimbutas, 1990: 316). In addition, there is an enormous range of traditional stories from around the world that point to a time when women had much more sacred and secular power than now. Much of early human history is guess work and is limited by the imaginations of people engaged in deciphering it. Three sets of footprints across a volcanic ash plain in Africa may be interpreted as a group of men or a nuclear family, but rarely is it suggested that it may be a group of women. There is no reason for that other than our own prejudices. Likewise human figurines previously interpreted as male are now being relooked at and reinterpreted. Closer to our own time, many cultures have a range of tales about heroines who performed remarkable feats of physical or intellectual strength. This book, in part, is intended to bring to the fore some of this knowledge. All the questions are based on previously published material and shortcomings may be the result of earlier distortion of texts relating to women. The first thing to say, with regard to the questions asked is, don’t feel bad if you don’t know the answers. There are many questions about history, the arts, science and women’s lives that simply are not part of the mainstream from which educationalists draw their facts. Some of the questions, if you were to look up a malecentred reference book, would either not appear, or have a different answer. This discrepancy is due, not to mischievousness on my part, but rather to the distortion of knowledge about women that prevails in our culture. A great deal of information about women has been lost or destroyed over the generations. The burning of the great library in Alexandria in the first century AD was one of 1

Introduction the first great losses. The greater part of Sappho’s poetry was lost when the church fathers burnt her work as the works of a heretic. Much more was lost during the years of the witchburnings in Europe. In some instances the losses were not irrevocable. The works of women remained on library shelves gathering dust and have, in recent years, been picked up and read again by feminist scholars in countries all around the world. As a result there is a great deal of re-evaluation of human history from its earliest beginnings going on. But new knowledge takes time to percolate through a culture. In spite of the re-assessment, the caveman image still predominates in the popular imagination, as do many other false images of women. Have you ever been asked, ‘Where are all the great women composers / artists / inventors / scientists / explorers / philosophers / doctors / economists?’ The problem with this kind of question is that if you don’t have a quick answer, then it is assumed that there were none. There have always been women working at the forefront of just about every human occupation – even those with which we might not want to identify – such as military expertise. Indeed, this is one area where many women’s names appear in the records. Sometimes a man has been credited with, say, a work of art, because the person (probably another man) couldn’t believe, or did not wish to believe, that a woman could paint so well. At other times men were given credit, because they were the public figures associated with the discovery which they could not have achieved without assistance, without mathematical skill, or without the daily support of a woman. The Japanese poet Sei Shonagon described the sentiment of many women when she wrote: Very Tiresome Things: When a poem of one’s own, that one has allowed someone else to use as his, is singled out for praise. Even more tiresome were the times when men stole, outright, women’s work, thereby establishing lucrative reputations for themselves. Who knows that it was women who invented the basic tools for our contemporary computer society? When you are asked such a question it is helpful to know a book that contains the answers to these questions. The questions and answers in The Spinifex Book of Women’s Answers will go some way towards changing the popular conception of what women have, or have not, achieved. The book by no means includes every woman of achievement – many volumes would be needed for that. Some 2

Introduction of the questions are phrased in such a way as to make it possible to guess at an answer – there being more information in the question than in the answer. This had been done to help allay the over-whelming feeling of not knowing the answers. Anyone who can answer correctly more than ten percent of the questions is doing well at countering their conditioning and their education. Amongst the traditions dealt with in this book are also new ones: contemporary feminist traditions. Just as women’s work has not been adequately passed on previously, contemporary feminists are concerned to ensure their work is recorded and remembered. Books, art works, political stances and famous utterances are included in this area. This book can be used in many ways. You can sit down and read it straight through (you will find the answers at the end of each section). You can use it as the basis for a quiz night – a quiz night all about women, or if it’s a mixed quiz, as a way of evening up the odds. A question about a famous sportsman should be balanced with one about a famous sportswoman, and so on. The book can be used by students and teachers, as the basis for games or as a source of information about what women have achieved throughout history and in the modern world. Girls need to know about women who have been mathematicians, poets, mechanics, politicians and many other things besides. We all need to know more about our very long history. How does it change a woman’s view of herself when she hears that female figures created the world, or that a woman excelled at the same chosen occupation? Clearly, for an edition published in Australia, questions about Australia and other English-speaking cultures predominate. I have, however, included questions about many other cultures and about women from countries around the world. This does, of course, make it even harder – but not for everyone. These questions will be easier, no doubt, for some. What I have discovered in putting this book together is that what is obscure for one person is very obvious for another. Each of us has our own special interests and this applies to me as the compiler of the questions. I would be interested in hearing from readers who are able to provide questions in areas that are presently under-represented. It is also important to acknowledge and rectify the cultural misrepresentation of European-centred history. Many, so-called ‘European’ cultural institutions were imported from Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Likewise, many oral traditions from around the world record historical events in 3

Introduction religious ritual or storytelling form. Some of these oral traditions predate written historical records. Inevitably, however, some areas will not have been adequately covered. The questions in the book are divided into six categories: Science and Spirit, Herstory, Lives, Time and Place, Ideology, Sport and Culture. The categories provide a focus for questions, but they are not meant to be limiting and you will also find questions about Sport or Science in categories such as Lives or Ideology. Similarly there are occasions when the answers may be incomplete, where, for instance just a few names are listed and the list could be extended. This is not always a quiz about right and wrong answers – there are still many areas where our knowledge is incomplete. Feel free to add your own answers to questions such as, Which goddesses are credited with creating the world? There are too many to list, and if I were to attempt it there would still be omissions. And there are cultures where the names of deities cannot be pronounced – I hope I have not inadvertently overstepped any boundaries in this regard. There are other questions where different traditions provide different answers, and where I have discovered this to be the case, as with immunization and the origin of the Amazons, I have included the variant answers. The Sources represent those books which were the source of at least three questions or critical new information. Some provided many more. In general, they provide further reading or information on many of the questions. I hope that this book inspires you to read more about the lives and achievements of the women in it. Susan Hawthorne August 1991.

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Science and Spirit 1. What feature is common to the mythography of the following cultures: the Chibcha people of Colombia, the Finns, the El Salvadorans, the Pelasgians of Ancient Greece, the Etruscans of ancient Italy, the people of Çatal Hüyük in ancient Anatolia (Turkey), the Maori of New Zealand, the Ashanti of Ghana, the Japanese? 2. When brother William was away from home she managed to discover eight comets over the period 1786–1797. She had also discovered three new nebulae in 1793. Brother William was also unwilling to devote the labour and time required to make a proper index that traced and cross-referenced the discrepancies between the official observations and those of the sister/brother team. The result was the Catalogue of Stars, recommended by William to his ‘Sister to undertake the arduous task’. Who was the sister? 3. In which field of medicine did the Greek physician, Aspasia, contribute the most? 4. What was the cause of ‘child bed fever ’/‘puerperal fever ’ during the 19th century? 5. She founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and is one of the few Australians to be put forward as a candidate for canonization. What is her name? 6. Name two goddesses from any culture credited with the invention of culture, arts, science, language. 7. Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), Anglo-Irish novelist who wrote works such as Belinda (1801), Patronage (1814) and Helen (1834), also developed an educational science curriculum for girls and pursued her own scientific interests. In which scientific discipline did she do most of her work? 8. The high-level universal computer programming language, ADA, is named after which English mathematician? 9. What do the pill, the Dalkon Shield, DES, fertility drugs and RU 486 (the French abortion pill) all have in common? 5

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10. Known as the ‘Witch of Agnesi’, by the age of eleven she was known as the ‘Seven-Tongued Orator ’ because she spoke fluently Italian, Latin, French, Greek, Hebrew, German and Spanish. She developed a reputation as a scholar in logic, physics, minerology, chemistry, botany, zoology and ontology. In 1738, at the age of twenty, she published Propositiones philosophicae and soon announced that she would enter a convent (mostly in order to escape the requirements of secular life, such as fashion, dancing and theatre). Unfortunately Agnesi, despite her reputation, abandoned the area of study in which she showed most promise. Had she continued she would have been considered one of the greatest in her field in the 18th century. What was her field? 11. Aphra Behn, best known for her contribution to literature, translated a scientific work in which field? 12. Amalie Dietrich (1821–1891) wrote Australische Briefe. In what field did she work? 13. What do the following madonnas found in European churches have in common? Our Lady of the Hermits at Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Our Lady of Montserrat in Spain; Notre Dame of Kazan in Russia; Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland; Notre Dame of Hal near Brussels in Belgium; Madonna of Eastern Europe, Monastery Hurezi; the Madonna of Loretto, Italy; and the Queen of the Pyrenees of Nuria, Spain. 14. A mathematical theorem is named after her which is still considered important by mathematicians. It deals with partial differential equations. The mathematician is Russian. Who is she? 15. In 1967, twenty-four-year-old Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed an unknown signal from outer space. What discovery did her observations lead to? 16. Alexa Canady said to her parents: ‘You’re raising me to be the person that you don’t want my brothers to marry.’ Which profession was Alexa Canady the first black American woman to break into? 17. In what way did Amélie Lelande assist Michel Jean Jérôme Lefrançais de Lelande and Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lelande in their astronomical research? 18. Who did Einstein’s mathematics? 19. Hanna Neumann was the first woman to become a professor of what discipline in Australia? 6

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20. Which medieval abbess and healer recommended treating diabetes by omitting sweets and nuts from the diet? 21. Isabella Cunio co-invented which printing method in the 13th century? 22. Scottish-born scientist, Mary Somerville, in her book On the Connexion of Physical Sciences presents an important antecedent to the concept of conservation of energy. In the third edition of the same work she wrote that an analysis of the perturbations of Uranus might yield the orbit of an unseen planet. Her work spread the idea and led to the discovery of which planet? 23. Hertha Marks Ayerton in 1904 read a paper on ‘The Origin and Growth of Ripple Marks’ to the Royal Society (the Royal Society is the most prestigious scientific society in Britain). How many other women had done this previously? 24. Who disproved the theory of phlogiston as it was applied to combustion? 25. Eleanor Omerod began collecting beetles as a child. In which field did she excel in later life? 26. Who was the first major sanitation engineer who, for this task, did not carry a lamp? 27. What feature is common to the mythography of the following cultures: the Ona of Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land in Northern Australia, the indigenous people of the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Slavic peoples of USSR, the Songhoi people of the Sudan and many other places? 28. What do the following goddesses have in common: Inanna, Ishtar, Nerthus, Hygeia, Panacea, Scabies, Angina, Fecunditas, Mater Matuta? 29. Trotula is the author of the world’s most enduring treatise on what aspect of medicine? 30. Who was the woman to import cinchona bark, as a remedy for malaria, into Spain in the 17th century? 31. About which subject was the first manuscript known to be written by a woman in English, and published in 1671 by Jane Sharp?

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32. ‘Are not philosophers, mathematicians, and astrologers often inferior to country women in their divinations and predictions, and does not the old nurse very often beat the door?’ This was said by physician Agrippa von Nettesheim in which century? 33. Wise women had used the foxglove plant as a remedy for failing heart, irregular heart rhythm, and fluid retention and swelling in legs and feet (dropsy) for centuries (millenia?). What did the eighteenthcentury Dr William Withering claim to have discovered about foxglove after visiting an old woman herbalist? 34. Where is the earliest known form of immunization found? 35. In the Sung Dynasty (960–1279 AD), Taoist nuns invented which kind of innoculation for small pox? 36. Who am I? I travelled to Turkey with my husband – the British Ambassador to Constantinople – in 1717. There I learnt how to innoculate against smallpox, a practice I introduced to Britain on my return. This ‘new’ treatment came in for great criticism from both the medical establishment and from the Church, and I wrote a good deal defending it and myself. ‘I am best known, however, for my witty, ascerbic letters that were considered both feminist and funny. Alexander Pope and I were not the best of friends’. 37. With what part of the body is hysteria traditionally associated? 38. Margaret Sanger was born in the late 19th century, and most of her work was done in the early decades of this century. What was her work? 39. Melanie Klein is famous for her psychoanalytic works on the relationship between. . . ? 40. Which company was successfully boycotted by women around the world for its promotion/selling of infant milk formula to Third World countries – a practice that resulted in many thousands of infant deaths due to malnutrition? 41. Mother Theresa worked in which Indian city? 42. Which Indian goddess is Calcutta named after? 43. Who was the Jewish goddess of wisdom? 44. Margaret Mead is best known for her anthropological study of which people? 8

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45. Why did Eve eat the apple? 46. Maria Mitchell was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she said as death approached in 1889, ‘Well, if this is dying, there is nothing very unpleasant about it.’ In which area of science was she highly regarded? 47. One mathematician devised the formulations for several concepts found in Einstein’s theory of relativity; in her work on the theory of ideals she profoundly changed the appearance of algebra; and finally she contributed substantially to work in non-commutative algebras. A school of mathematics is named after her. Who was she? 48. In which field has Norma Merrick Sklarek distinguished herself? 49. What do the following groupings of names have in common? Parvati–Durga–Uma (Kali) in India; Ana–Babd–Macha (the Morrigan) in Ireland; Hebe–Hera–Hecate, the Moerae, the Gorgons, the Greae, the Horae in Greece; the Norns among the Vikings; the Fates or Fortunae among the Romans; Al-Lat–Q’re–Al-Uzza (Manat) among those of Arabia; Diana Triformis among the Druids. 50. Who said in 1764: ‘There have been very learned women as there have been women warriors, but there have never been women inventors.’ ? 51. Who did the Greeks claim as the inventor of agriculture and the mechanical arts? 52. The Indian goddess, Sarasvati is credited with what inventions? 53. In the 11th century Trotula devised a surgical technique for which operation? 54. Marie Colinet, a Swiss physician of the 16th century was the first to remove iron fragments from the eye with what instrument? 55. Seventy years before its ‘discovery’ Elizabeth Stone working with lumberjacks in the North Woods of Wisconsin used which antibiotic therapy? 56. Anne Crépin of France invented what kind of saw? 57. Mme Lefebvre patented the first process for fixing which gas from the air? 9

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58. What do the following have in common? Scotchgard, Liquid Paper, the first business computer, the fungicide Nystatin, the first on-line reservation system for airlines? 59. Bette Graham invented what essential item for writers and secretaries? 60. Who is credited with inventing the wheel? 61. Eli Whitney previously credited with inventing the spinning wheel and Albert Einstein with the theory of relativity shared what with Catherine Greene and Mileva Maric-Einstein respectively? 62. Fritz Haber received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918 for a technology whose earliest form was developed and patented by a woman from Paris. What is her name? 63. Margaret Bourke-White, an American photographer of the 1920s and 30s photographed what kind of subjects? 64. Marie Chambefort was one of the earliest French photographers producing her work in the first decade of photography’s existence had previously worked in what kind of printing job? 65. In May 1839 an English woman, Constance Talbot, was setting what she called her husband’s ‘mousetraps’. What art form were these ‘mousetraps’ to begin? 66. Anna Atkins made photograms of botanical specimens on lightsensitive paper, making them visually recognizable. In 1843 she published the first photographically illustrated book, Photographs of British Algae. The photographs were blue. What process did she use? 67. Rosalie Bertell’s book, No Immediate Danger is a book about what environmental problem? 68. Who am I? My father was the poet Lord Byron. My mother’s marriage to him lasted only a few months. My mother was a mathematical whizz. I was a sickly child, but my mother ensured I received an excellent education, especially in mathematics. In the early 1830s I met Charles Babbage. Together we worked on the programs and mechanics of the world’s first computer. I wrote a great deal about my work, but signed it only with initials (ladies didn’t write their full name!). 10

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69. What Australian artist produced many woodcuts of Australian wildflowers? 70. Caroline Louisa Atkinson and Louisa Anne Meredith were both 19th century Australian novelists.What else did they have in common? 71. What was the fruit which Persephone ate that prevented her from fully leaving the Underworld? 72. What is the female part of a flower called? 73. Whose botanical paintings from travels to Brazil, North America, Japan, Sarawak, Australia, the Seychelles, Chile and elsewhere are on permanent display in a special building in Kew Gardens, London? 74. Caroline Herschel made which instrument necessary for the eventual sighting of Uranus? 75. A Compendius System of Astronomy was published in 1797 in London. Who was the author? 76. Jane Marcet wrote a book that stimulated the enthusiasm of Michael Faraday. In which field of science did she work? 77. Who was the marine biologist whose work on pesticides helped to bring public attention to ecological issues in the 1960s? 78. What did Mary say when she found she was pregnant? 79. What was the name of the woman God made before making Eve? 80. When the Olympic Games finally got off the ground in the 8th century BC, what kind of priestess had to be present at the men-only Games? 81. The goddess Freya from Norway gives us which day of the week? 82. The Greek goddess Aphrodite is represented by what planet? 83. What is Cassandra remembered for? 84. Who wrote: ‘The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies, not of achievements.’ ? 85. Which American writer is known for teaching a stone to talk and being a pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek? 11

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86. Helen Caldicott is continuing a life-long campaign against which worldwide health hazard ? 87. What Australian woman is responsible for the development of the merino sheep? 88. Dian Fossey is to mountain gorillas as Cynthia Moss is to . . . ? 89. What was the name of the IUD that caused many problems for women, and for which its company was ordered to make large payouts as compensation? 90. Adrienne Rich wrote: She died / a famous woman / denying / her sounds / denying / her wounds / came / from the same source as her power Which famous scientist is she writing about? 91. What was it that Marie Curie discovered? 92. Rosalind Franklin’s work was critical in the discovery of an important aspect of modern science. Maurice Wilkins was given the Nobel Prize for work it is widely believed she had done. What was Rosalind Franklin’s contribution to science? 93. This scientist could have written the history of each of her corn plants. She said herself, ‘I know them intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.’ She was awarded the Nobel Prize for her important work on these same corn plants. What was her name? 94. From which African goddess did the Virgin Mary borrow many of her attributes, including her titles: The Madonna, Queen of Heaven, Mother of God, The Great Mother, Our Lady? 95. What do the following writers all have in common: Gertrude the Great, Juliana of Norwich, Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Sienna, Hadewych of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Hildegard of Bingen? 96. What were New Orleans women, Sanité Dédé, Marie Saloppé and Marie Laveau famous for? 97. Betty de Bono worked as a Union Delegate at Taubmans paint factory in the Western suburbs of Melbourne. What did she work to change in her workplace? 98. Which American comedian said: ‘If you have a psychotic fixation and you go to the doctor and you want these two fingers amputated, 12

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he will not cut them off. But he will remove your genitals. I have more trouble getting a prescription for Valium than I do having my uterus lowered and made into a penis.’ ? 99. What happened after German runner, Lina Radke, won the 800m in 1928? 100. According to Plutarch, Sappho invented a musical scale, the myxolydian mode, built upon the fifth note of the Western scale. According to Plutarch, which emotion is aroused by the myxolydian mode? 101. Ida P. Rolf (1896–1979) writes that the body is not healed only by chemistry but also by attention to structure and physics. What handson technique did she invent? 102. What animal product was used in the construction of corsets? 103. Who had a spin-off to prove who was the best weaver? What was the result? 104. For what masculine evils was Pandora blamed? 105. Which Indian Goddess is known as the Dark Mother? 106. Which zodiac sign is symbolized by a woman? 107. Which people worshipped the goddess Cerridwen? 108. In which part of the world do the Djangguwal Sisters and the Wawalag Sisters travel?

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Science and Spirit – Answers 1. That a female deity created the world. 2. Caroline Herschel. 3. Obstetrics and gynaecology. 4. Caused by spreading of bacteria, frequently by physicians who did not wash their hands after examining cadavers and who then went straight to the bedside of a woman about to deliver and carried out digital examinations. The highest rates were in large lying-in hospitals, 160 per 1000 live births in England in 1872 (almost 1 in 5!). Midwives had much lower mortality rates. 5. Mary MacKillop. 6. Miti-Miti (Siberian Koryaks), Tsenabonapil (Melanesian New Ireland), Sarasvati (India), Athena (Greece), Minerva (Roman), Brigit (Ireland), Isis (Egypt). 7. Astronomy. 8. (Augusta) Ada Byron Lovelace (1815–52). 9. They all have short- and longterm adverse effects on women’s bodies. 10. Mathematics, her major publication was Analytical Institutions. Her real name was Maria Gaetana Agnesi. 11. Astronomy. She translated Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. 12. She was a naturalist. 13. They are all black.

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14. Sonya Kovalevsky, a creative mathematician of the highest order. The mathematical theorem is the Cauchy-Kovalevsky theorem. 15. Pulsars. Her supervisor received a Nobel Prize for his work. 16. She is a neurosurgeon. 17. She did the calculation of astronomical tables. 18. Mileva Maric-Einstein (his wife). 19. She was the inaugural Chair in Pure Mathematics in 1964 at Australian National University. 20. Hildegard of Bingen. 21. Woodblock engraving, coinvented with her brother Alexander. 22. Neptune. Mary Somerville and Caroline Herschel were the first women awarded honorary membership in the Royal Society. 23. None, she was the first. They were ripple marks in sand. 24. Elizabeth Fulhame, a British chemist. Her work was entitled Essay on Combustion and she is significant in not only applying empirical methods but also in developing theoretical explanations for her observations. 25. Entomology; she wrote several important books about British insects, with particular reference to their effect on agriculture. 26. Florence Nightingale – she designed many sanitation systems in India, and is particularly well known for that in Delhi.

Answers 27. That there was a time when women held the sacred power and were the rulers of the culture. 28. All were associated with healing. 29. Gynaecology and obstetrics. 30. The Countess of Cinchon. She had previously been cured by its use while in Peru, and presumably was given the remedy by the peoples native to that area, again probably women. 31. It concerned midwifery and was called The Midwives’ Book. 32. Sixteenth century. 33. That foxglove was useful for the above ailments. He wrote a paper entitled ‘An Account of the Foxglove and Some of Its Medical Uses’ thereby establishing a reputation as one of the finest botanists of all time!

Science and Spirit 41. Calcutta. 42. Kali. 43. Sophia. 44. Samoa. 45. She wanted to have eternal knowledge. 46. Astronomy. In 1849 she became a computer for the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. 47. Amalie Emmy Noether; mathematicians speak of the ‘Noether school’ of mathematics. 48. Architecture, she designed Terminal One at Los Angeles International Airport. 49. Some of the original Trinity of the goddess in the Indo-european world. 50. Voltaire. 51. Athena.

34. In Africa, through the process of cicatrization (scarring) the body is stimulated to create anti-bodies. It is likely that this was the purpose in all cultures that traditionally include scarification.

52. Wisdom, science, speech, music and the deviser of Sanskrit script.

35. Variolation – innoculation with smallpox virus rather than milder cowpox virus.

56. The bandsaw.

36. Lady Mary Wortley Montague. 37. Uterus. 38. She fought to set up women’s health centres to help educate women about contraception and reproductive health.

53. Perineal repair. 54. The magnet. 55. Penicillin. 57. Nitrogen. 58. They were all invented or co-invented by women in the 20th century. 59. Liquid Paper.

39. Mother and child.

60. Athena/Minerva; she was credited with inventing the cart, and in order to have a cart one must have wheels.

40. Nestlé.

61. Royalties.

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62. Mme Lefebvre in 1859.

87. Elizabeth Macarthur.

63. Industrial imagery and documentary magazine work.

88. Elephants.

64. As a daguerreotypist.

90. Marie Curie.

65. Photography.

91. Radium / radiation.

66. Cyanotype. 67. Low-level radiation.

92. She contributed to the discovery of the DNA structure.

68. Ada Byron Lovelace.

93. Barbara McClintock.

69. Margaret Preston.

94. Isis.

70. Both were botanists. 71. The pomegranate.

95. All were mystics and philosophers during the middle ages in Europe.

72. Gynoecium.

96. They were voodoo queens.

73. Marianne North (1830–90). 74. The mirror for the 30-foot reflector of the telescope.

97. Safety regulations. She died at the age of forty-seven, probably from inhaling dangerous fumes.

75. Margaret Bryan.

98. Lily Tomlin, 1974.

76. Chemistry and the book was called Conversations on Chemistry.

99. The distance was declared dangerous for women and removed from the Olympic calendar for thirty-six years.

77. Rachel Carson. 78. ‘How can this be, seeing I know not a man.’ (Luke, 1:34). 79. Lilith. 80. A priestess of Demeter. 81. Friday. 82. Venus.

89. The Dalkon Shield.

100. Passion. 101. Rolfing – a technique that allows emotional residue held in the muscles, and thereby affecting movement through skeletal and muscular tension, to be released. 102. Whalebone.

83. She made prophecies but was not believed.

103. Arachne challenged Athene / the goddess turned her into a spider.

84. Ayn Rand (1905–1982) in her book Atlas Shrugged.

104. War, death, disease, etc.

85. Annie Dillard, the titles of her books (two of them) are Teaching a Stone to Talk and Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek. 86. Nuclear War / power.

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121. Who built the third pyramid at Giza, Egypt? 122. Djamila Bouhared and Djamila Boupacha were involved in the Algerian resistance movement in the 50s? What were they famous for? 123. For what is the Burmese queen Mallica remembered? 124. Who said, defending her people against the Romans: ‘It will not be the last time, Britons, that you have been victorious under the conduct of your queen. For my part, I come here as one descended of royal blood, not to fight for empire or riches, but as one of the common people, to avenge the loss of their liberty, the wrongs of myself and children.’ ? 125. Ireland and Scotland are named after whom? 126. Bouboulina, a Greek heroine of the 19th century was famous for what? 127. The Mexican woman La Malinche is famous for what? 128. Which country did Cut Nyak Dien rule for fifty years in the 17th century? 129. I was born in 1583 and known variously as Jinga or Ginga, but more ofter as Nzingha. I was the sister of King Ndongo, Ngoli Bbondi and belonged to the people known as the Jagas. The Portuguese attempted to enslave my people, so I made an alliance with the Dutch. In 1623 at the age of forty-one I became Queen of Ndongo and when leading the army I wore male attire. I became known as a visionary political leader and one committed to resistance to European invasion. The Portuguese captured and beheaded my sister, Fungi. I joined the Catholic faith because of the power of its god and signed a treaty with the Portuguese. In 1663 when I was nearing eighty, I died. After my death the Portuguese enslaved South West Africa. What is the modernday name for my country? 130. I am called the Falasha Queen, and unlike my African sisters Candace and Nzingha, I didn’t simply defend my country, I challenged and fought and defeated the Abyssinian Solomonid dynasty and then reigned unchallenged for forty years. I did not like Christians and so I destroyed their churches and their people. The world still does not know all there is to know about me. What is my name? 131. Who was the leader of the Ashanti people in Ghana against the British in the early years of the twentieth century? 18

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132. In which country did the Ibu Women’s War of 1929 take place? 133. Which members of the Yoruba culture (Nigeria) traditionally wore plaits? 134. In 40 AD the Trung Sisters, Trung Trai and Trung Nhi, led the first national insurrection against the Chinese. Which modern-day nation were the Trung Sisters defending? 135. Christine de Pisan wrote the following lines about a French heroine. Who was she writing about? ‘O Thou! ordained Maid of very God! / Joanna! born in Fortune’s golden hour’ 136. For what crime was Joan of Arc tried? 137. Help from whom was indispensable to Jason getting the Golden Fleece? 138. Who is the Catherine wheel named after? 139. When a woman was burnt ‘quick’ after being accused and found guilty of witchcraft, what did that mean? 140. The book which provided the basic material for accusations of witchcraft against many a good feminist was called the Malleus Maleficarum. What was its English title/translation? 141. Who is said to have been the first great alchemist? 142. Which novelist was the first woman named to the prestigious ‘Academie Française’? 143. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley tells the history of which culture? 144. What is the name of the woman who features in Kate Grenville’s fictional history of Australia? 145. Mary Grant Bruce is best known for her series of novels featuring a young heroine named Norah Linton. The series is called . . . ? 146. Which novel by Catherine Helen Spence is one of the first books about Australia by a woman, as well as being an important record of life in South Australia and the Victorian goldfields in the 19th century? 147. Who set up the first all-female garage in Melbourne in 1919? 19

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148. Who was the first Aboriginal woman to be appointed Magistrate? 149. In 1956 Pearl and Faith established the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship. What are their last names? 150. Who was responsible in 1946 for Aboriginal workers at Roy Hill in Western Australia going on strike and for the subsequent spread of the strike to the Pilbara region further inland? The strike changed the structure of labour relations in the north of the state forcing many stations to recognize that wages would have to be raised. 151. Who wrote the first novel written and printed in Australia and what was it called? 152. Tasmanian, Constance Stone, the first woman to become a practising doctor in Melbourne started the Queen’s Shilling Fund to set up what institution to be run by women for women in 1897? 153. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to be admitted to the previously all-male British Medical Association. In which year was she admitted? 154. What public office was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson the first to hold in England? 155. Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women in 1791. What was the title of Mary Wollstonecraft’s book on the same subject published in 1792? 156. Who started the Russian Revolution with the cry: ‘Bread and Roses’? 157. What is ‘General’ Harriet Tubman famous for? 158. Who said: ‘But ain’t I a woman?’ 159. How was news of secret meetings for Black women passed from one end of a city, such as New Orleans, during the slave era in the USA? 160. Who created the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Britain? 161. Who sparked the civil rights movement in the USA by refusing to go to the back of the bus? 162. Who became the first woman premier of Victoria? 20

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163. Who began working in a mill at the age of ten, and later became a leader in the British Suffrage movement? 164. What was the best-selling novel in nineteenth-century America? 165. With which international crisis are the photographs of Dorothea Lange associated? 166. A law affecting the extermination of what people did Esther convince her husband to repeal? 167. Who said: ‘The serpent beguiled me and I did eat?’ (Genesis, 3:13) 168. After cutting off the head of Holofernes she said: ‘Her sandal ravished his eye, / her beauty took his soul prisoner. . . / and the scimitar cut through his neck!’ Who was speaking? 169. Who painted two pictures in 17th century Italy of Judith cutting off Holofernes’ head? 170. Who said on the day of her death: ‘I have heard say the executioner is very good, and I have a little neck.’ ? 171. One of the greatest rulers of Egypt was a woman. She was called Pharaoh and was a warrior queen, though she waged no wars abroad. She organized commercial expeditions and is credited with creating a new science of rulership. She is depicted wearing a beard. What is her name? 172. Cleopatra, the black ruler of Egypt committed suicide soon after Mark Antony’s death. Her loss of him is usually said to be the reason for her suicide. What was the real reason? 173. Who was the next queen the Romans had to contend with after the death of Cleopatra? 174. Margaret of Austria (1480–1530) was Regent of what country? 175. ‘Everyone knows that . . . a woman ought not to let it appear that she understands . . .’ Who wrote this in The Heptameron ? 176. Who said the following at her trial in 1586: ‘Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.’ ? 21

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177. Who did Antoinette de Pons Guercheville (1570–1632) direct the following remark at: ‘If I am not noble enough to be your wife, I am too much so to be your mistress.’ ? 178. On 24 October 1975 there was a 24-hour Women’s Strike in one nation. In which country was this strike held? 179. On 14 June 1991 there was a Women’s Strike in a European country to protest the existence of 700 years of ‘Papiland’ (fatherland). In which country was the strike held? 180. In which year did Swiss women get the right to vote federally? 181. In which year did Swiss women in all cantons achieve the right to vote? 182. My birth is recorded as being the daughter of Queen Marie Theresa of Spain and Louis XIV of France. The court was distressed when I was born as I resembled my mother’s Dahomian attendant, Nabo. I was taken secretly to the convent of Moret and when I grew up I became known as the Black Nun. When my mother named me she chose to combine my legal parents’ names. What is my name? 183. Which suffragette and contraception activist wrote the following words: ‘No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body.’ ? 184. On which continent are the earliest-known examples of the following found: wigs, eye shadow, breath freshener, nail stain, lipstick, scented pomades and oils for the skin and hair? 185. Who designed the first mini-skirts? 186. In which year did Robin Morgan and other feminists first disrupt a Miss America contest? 187. In which year were the following three books published: The Feminine Mystique, The Group, The Bell Jar? 188. In which year were the following books published: The Dialectic of Sex, The Female Eunuch, Sexual Politics, Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement? 189. In which year was the US feminist magazine, Ms. first published? 22

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190. Who were/are the first and current editors of Ms. magazine? 191. In which year did the UK feminist magazine, Spare Rib begin? 192. What was the name of the newspaper printed by Louisa Lawson and her women-only press? 193. Madame Helena Blavatsky set up which prominent society? 194. C. A. Dawson, known variously as ‘Sappho’ and ‘Mrs Sappho’ founded which international organization in 1921? 195. Women’s Wax Works recording label produced the first lesbian record recorded and produced by women. What was it called? 196. Which US feminist and woman-owned recording company released work by Meg Christian, Cris Williamson, and Margie Adam? 197. Who published Robin Morgan’s first book of poems, Monster, in Australia? 198. Which famous American writer and activist wrote the famous words: ‘Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights – nothing less.’? 199. Which American writer is known for shooting Andy Warhol, and authoring the controversial book The SCUM Manifesto ? 200. What was the title of Sylvia Plath’s most famous novel? 201. Name the seven women writers who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature up to 1992. 202. Who am I? I lived in Saxony sometime between 935–1000 AD. I was the abbess of a Benedictine nunnery. My plays and dramas were respected but ignored for a long time. One of my plays is said to be the earliest version of the Faust story. 203. Who ruled the court at Poitiers from 1170 creating an influential centre for art and culture and in particular for the flowering of Troubadour song? 204. The author of The Tale of Genji wrote the following: ‘Indeed she had seen enough of the world to know that in few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a story. . .’ What is the writer’s name? 23

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205. Known as the first Black poet in the US, who wrote these lines: ‘I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatched from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat: / What pangs excruciating must molest, / What sorrows labor in my parent’s breast?’ 206. Who was the first black woman to have a play appear on Broadway? 207. Who wrote the first Australian novel about convict life in Tasmania? What was its title? 208. Sue Hardisty wrote the book, and with Susan Maslin, made the documentary, Thanks Girls and Goodbye. What aspect of Australian history does it deal with? 209. Who wrote the novel Bring the Monkey ? 210. Who was the first European woman to cross the Franklin and Jane Rivers in Tasmania? 211. Her first piece of fiction was published in Vashti’s Voice, a Melbourne feminist newspaper. She was dismissed from her teaching job and her first novel, published in 1977 was set in Melbourne’s inner suburbs. Jane Campion directed her script, Two Friends, an awardwinning telefeature. What is her name? 212. Name the Maori writer who won the Victoria University Writer in Residence Award in 1985, and subsequently won the New Zealand Book Award for her novel, Potiki. 213. Which New Zealand children’s writer was approached by a New York publisher when she was thirty-two and has since published over forty-five children’s books? 214. The name Aoteoroa is applied to which country by its indigenous people? 215. Whom did Aeneas leave in Carthage? 216. Synesius of Cyrene (in North Africa) credited her with the invention of apparatus for distilling water and measuring the level of liquids. She was known for her work in algebra, geometry and astronomy. She was a leading figure in non-Christian thought in Alexandria and in 415 AD she was murdered and dismembered by a mob of Christian fanatics. Who was she? 24

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217. I was born in 1415 BC, daughter of Yuya and Thuya, Nubians and high priests in service of the god Amun. Although neither Egyptian nor royal, I married the Pharaoh Amenhotep III. I was mother to Akhenaten, Smenkhare and Tutankhamen, all Pharaohs. I stabilized Egypt during the 18th dynasty and took over the role of Secretary of State during my sons’ reigns. During my reign women prospered and I introduced to Egypt the tradition of matrilineal succession. What is my name? 218. Who was the daughter-in-law of Tiye, renowned for her beauty, intellect and insistence on equality? 219. Byzantium was ruled by which woman in the 6th century AD? 220. Which woman pharaoh built a temple in the Valley of Kings? 221. Who am I? I lived between 1122–1204. My own fame equalled that of my husbands and my sons who became kings of great renown. During my reign I held and administered lands equalling one-third of present-day France, established my own court which was celebrated for its enlightenment and patronage of the arts, and went off to the crusades. 222. In Italy during the 17th century there were many artists who achieved fame for their excellent work. One such woman and her work have only recently received the attention they deserve after being ‘forgotten’ by the art establishment. What was her name? 223. Which ‘Russian Amazon’ assassinated Czar Alexander II in 1881? 224. What did the women in the play Lysistrata refuse to do? 225. Her sonnets were considered the greatest sonnets since Shakespeare? 226. Who originated the Montessori method? 227. She ran an important artistic salon in Paris during the 1920s, including all-female evenings, who was she? 228. Which French philosopher committed suicide by starvation in 1934? 229. Justice Mary Gaudron was the first woman appointed to what Australian Court in February 1987, in the entire eighty-four years of existence? 25

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230. Who was the first woman Supreme Court Judge, now Governor of South Australia? 231. Who was the first woman ever appointed to the head or deputy head of a Law Reform Commission in Australia? 232. The film Two Laws is about women from which Aboriginal community in northern Australia? 233. My Survival as an Aboriginal tells the story of whose life? 234. How many feature films were made by women in Australia between 1921 and 1933? 235. Which Chinese poet wrote: ‘Why should marriage bring only tears? / All I wanted was a man / With a single heart, / And we would stay together / As our hair turned white, Not somebody always after wriggling fish / With his big bamboo rod.’ ? 236. Which ruler of Egypt said the following to Marc Antony: ‘Leave the fishing rod, Great-General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus.’ ? 237. What shouldn’t you do if you meet Medusa?

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weeks and became interpreter for Cortés. Although maligned by historians as a traitor La Malinche managed to save the lives of thousands of Native Indians through her influence over Cortés. 128. Indonesia. 129. Angola. 130. Judith. (Some Ethiopian historical manuscripts have never been released; perhaps when they are we will know more about Judith). 131. Yaa Asantewa. 132. Nigeria. 133. The women. 134. Viet Nam. 135. Joan of Arc. 136. Witchcraft. 137. Medea. 138. St Catherine (Catherine of Sienna). 139. To be burnt ‘quick’ meant to be burnt alive.

123. For killing over fifty military elephants when leading an army in tribal war.

140. The Hammer of Witches.

124. Boadicea (also known as Boudicca).

143. Celtic.

125. Queen Eire and Queen Scota.

145. The Billabong Books.

141. The Virgin Mary. 142. Marguerite Yourcenar. 144. Joan in Joan Makes History.

126. She was a sea pirate who fought the Turks.

146. Clara Morison.

127. She was a skilled linguist, learning Spanish in a matter of

148. Pat O’Shane. The first Aboriginal to be appointed to a

147. Alice Anderson.

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Answers 166. Jewish people. 167. Eve. 168. Judith. (Judith, 16:9). 169. Artemisia Gentileschi. 170. Anne Boleyn (19 May 1536). 171. Hatshepsut. 172. Egypt was a Roman protectorate that Cleopatra protected through liaisons with Roman rulers, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Once they were dead Octavius assumed full control of Egypt. Egypt lost any remaining autonomy and Cleopatra committed suicide over the loss of her country, not over the loss of a man. 173. Candace of Ethiopia – there were several queens of this name. 174. Netherlands (Holland). 175. Margaret of Navarre, the book has the alternative title of Novels of the Queen of Navarre. 176. Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–87). 177. Henry IV. 178. Iceland. 179. Switzerland. 180. 1971. 181. 1991.

161. Rosa Parkes.

182. Marie-Louise.

162. Joan Kirner.

183. Margaret Sanger.

163. Annie Kenney.

184. Africa.

164. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

185. Mary Quant.

165. The depression of the 1930s.

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188. 1970.

209. Miles Franklin.

189. 1972.

210. Lady Jane Franklin.

190. Gloria Steinem / Robin Morgan.

211. Helen Garner.

191. 1971.

212. Patricia Grace. 213. Margaret Mahy.

192. The Dawn. 193. The Theosophical Society.

214. New Zealand (it means ‘the land of the long white cloud’).

194. PEN.

215. Dido.

195. Lavender Jane Loves Women.

216. Hypatia. 217. Tiye.

196. Olivia Records.

218. Nefertiti.

197. Radical Feminists.

219. Theodora.

198. Susan B. Anthony.

220. Hatshepsut.

199. Valerie Solanas

221. Eleanor of Acquitaine.

200. The Bell Jar. 201. Selma Lagerlöf Grazia Deledda Sigrid Undset Pearl S. Buck Gabriela Mistral Nelly Sachs (shared) Nadine Gordimer

222. Artemisia Gentileschi. 1909 1926 1928 1938 1945 1966 1991

202. Hrotsvita of Gandersheim. 203. Eleanor of Aquitaine. 204. Lady Murasaki Shikibu.

223. Sophia Perovskaya. 224. To have sex with men. 225. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 226. Maria Montessori. 227. Natalie Barney. 228. Simone Weil. 229. High Court of Australia. 230. Dame Roma Mitchell.

205. Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784).

231. Jocelynne Scutt, appointed in December 1984.

206. Lorraine Hansberry. The play was A Raisin in the Sun.

232. Borroloola.

207. Caroline Woolmer Leakey (‘Oliné Keese’). The book was The Broad Arrow, the year, 1859. 208. The Women’s Land Army which operated during World War II.

233. Essie Coffey. 234. Sixteen. 235. Chuo Wên-chün. 236. Cleopatra. 237. Look at her face.

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whom I eloped two years later. Before I was 21 I had completed and published a novel which was to become famous throughout the world, and the basis for many films. I wrote one of the earliest works of fiction about incest, Mathilde and my story ‘The Last Man’ has been widely anthologized. The famous names in my life are Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Shelley and Frankenstein. Who am I? 249. What did Katherine Mansfield die of? 250. In the Brontë family there was a fourth sister who died of consumption at the age of twelve, and who provided the model for Helen Burns in Jane Eyre. What was the sister’s name? 251. How and at what age did Eleanor Marx die? 252. Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown is based on which famous tennis player? 253. I grew up in Beaumont, Texas, and as a child was prodigiously good at almost any sport I tried. When I was sixteen I had an offer to move to Dallas and play for a basketball team as part of a company. On one day, within three hours, in July 1932 I won the javelin, shot put, baseball throw, long jump, 80 metres hurdles and a tie in the high jump. Two were new world records. I won gold medals in javelin and hurdles and tied in the high jump at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932, setting records in all three events – I was the first athlete to do that. I later went on to win many golf tournaments. Who am I? 254. Ruth spoke the following to Naomi: ‘Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people. . .’ (Ruth, 1: 16) What relation was Naomi to Ruth? 255. Poppy, by Drusilla Modjeska, is a book about which relation? 256. My family name is well known in Victorian Aboriginal circles as many of my descendants have been activists. I was born in 1836 on Preservation Island in Bass Strait. With my husband John I travelled to the Victorian goldfields in 1853 after which we went to live at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. I gave evidence to the enquiry in 1876 to resist plans to sell the property, but I was forced off the land. Laws about half-castes separated the family several times and eventually I moved to Cummeragunja near the Murray River in New South Wales. Some of my descendants were to walk off this land in later years. Who am I?

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257. I was born on 25 December 1933 at Echuca, Victoria, a member of the Yorta-Yorta tribe from the Murray River area. Amongst my ancestors were also the Wurundjeri people of the Melbourne area. When I was a child my family and I walked off the Cummeragunja Station to Mooroopna, and later Shepparton. I went to school in the Good Shepherd Convent in Abbotsford, Melbourne and later worked as a domestic at St Andrews Hospital. I married a Andrew Marimutha, a Malayan Indian, whose name we all shortened. I initiated the setting up of the Aboriginal Health Service and the Aboriginal Legal Service. I also set up Worowa Aboriginal College and later Worawa Primary School for younger children. I am well known for coauthoring the script of Women of the Sun. Who am I? 258. Zora Neale Hurston worked as a maid, a librarian, and a teacher. What was her main claim to fame? 259. She was born in Chattanooga, her last name was Smith and she sang the blues. Her first name is . . . ? 260. Leontyne Price had her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1961. How long was the ovation she received for her portrayal of Leonora in Il Trovatore on that night? 261. At what age did Libba Cotten, Grammy Award-winning singer, storyteller, composer, begin her performing career? 262. I was born in Paris in 1857 and began composing at the age of eight when I wrote church music. I was famous for my recitals in which I often played my own works. I wrote a ballet, Callirhoë, a composition for chorus and orchestra, Les Amazones, a flute concerto and over 200 piano pieces. I died in 1944, aged eighty-six. Who am I? 263. I was born in Japan and became an artist. I exhibited an apple in an art gallery with a high price tag. I also produced the solo records Approximately Infinite Universe and Feeling the Space as well as records with my husband. I wrote a book of poems, Grapefruit. My husband was shot in New York City in 1980. Who am I? 264. I was born in Paris in 1915, the daughter of an Italian street singer, Line Marsa, and I was named after Nurse Edith Cavell. At the age of eight I became blind and my grandmother with whom I lived took me on a pilgrimage to Lisieux. By the age of thirteen I could see again. I sang on the streets with my father and in 1935 I began to sing in cabarets. I was nicknamed ‘the sparrow’ and after the second world war I became famous. I sang songs composed by my favourite

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composer, Marguerite Monot, including L’Etranger, C’est l’amour, and Hymne à l’amour. My most famous song is Non, je ne regrette rien. By what name am I known? 265. Who says: ‘I enjoy being a girl’ ? 266. I was born in Germany in 1915 and made my debut in opera at the Berlin Staatsoper in Parsifal in 1938. I am well known for my Lieder recitals and I appeared almost annually at the Salzburg Festival for twenty-five years. In recent years I have become well known for my master-classes. Who am I? 267. She was the greatest woman pianist of the nineteenth century and lived in Germany. Her name is . . . ? 268. She composed many musical works, but was prevented from performing publicly first by her father, and then by her brother Felix. Her name is . . . ? 269. Who achieves the remarkable feat of taming nine fire lizards in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsong? 270. Who wrote Gone With the Wind? 271. Calamity Jane is known for many things, but she also wrote. What was the title of her small collection of letters? 272. I was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960. In 1982 I became the first Black collective-member of Sheba Feminist Publishers in London. I was the in-house editor of the anthologies, A Dangerous Knowing: Four Blackwomen Poets, Charting the Journey. I have authored two collections of poetry, As A Blackwoman and Zabat: Poetics of a Family Tree. I am the co-founder, with Lubaina Himid, of Urban Fox Press, the first independent blackwomen’s press in Britain. My most recent book is Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity. Who am I? 273. Who am I? I joined the suffragettes in England and America. I helped form Women’s Trade Unions, and I served in a Scottish hospital unit in war zones during WWI. I’m better known for my novels set in Australia, and for my struggle to establish a brilliant career. My name is . . . ? 274. Who am I? I was a feminist, a committed socialist, and an Australian. In 1936 I wrote a novel which offered a daring exploration of female sexuality. I went on to write other books, many of which dealt with the issues of racism. For many years my work was ignored

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and it has just been rediscovered by a new generation of feminists, readers and scholars. 275. I was born in 1762 and worked as a cook in Suffolk for Mr Cobbold. When I was unemployed and desperate I dressed in male attire and rode Mr Cobbold’s horse to London. I was sentenced to be hanged, but this was commuted to seven years transportation. At first I was not transported, but sent instead to Ipswich jail. I dressed in sailor clothes and escaped over the wall, but I was recaptured. This time I was transported and sent to Sydney where I worked again as a cook and assisted in the delivering of babies. Although I was asked several times to marry I always refused. In 1814 I was granted an absolute pardon. After that I worked my own farm raising sheep, goats and pigs. Who am I? 276. I was born in Lincolnshire, England around 1612. In 1630, aboard the Arabella I set out for Massachusetts. I wrote poems about my life, my children and my house which burnt down. I am known as the first American poet. What is my name? 277. Who was the first woman in the US to be nominated for President? 278. Who were the first women to become professional stockbrokers? Sisters, they set up business in New York in 1868 and were extremely successful. 279. Who said: ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.’ ? 280. Who wrote the following in her diary on 22 November, 1963: ‘It all began so beautifully. After a drizzle in the morning, the sun came out bright and clear. We were driving into Dallas. In the lead car were President and Mrs Kennedy. . .’ ? 281. Who said: ‘I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.’ ? 282. I was born in Russian Poland in 1870 and my family moved to Warsaw when I was three. Although I was lame, I never lacked confidence in my ideas. I studied philosophy, economics and law in Zürich and married a German. In 1893 I helped form the Social Democratic Party of Poland. I later worked on the socialist newspaper Vorwärts and spent time in prison in 1904 and 1905. I wrote an influential pamphlet, The Mass Strike and in 1914 a major text on economics, The Accumulation of Capital. I strenuously opposed all forms of nationalism as they destroy international solidarity amongst workers. Due to my anti-nationalist beliefs I spent most of the first world war in prison. My work has been described as providing a

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unified theory and tactics for the European-wide revolution. After founding the German Communist Party and, following the Spartacist uprising in 1919, I was arrested, interrogated, beaten and shot. My body was thrown into the Landwehr Canal in Berlin and my murderers were acquitted. Who am I? 283. Indian politician, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, was president of what international body in 1953? 284. In 19th century Britain Josephine Butler fought for the repeal of which Acts that discriminated against women but took no account of men’s role in spreading venereal disease? 285. Ada Evans was the first Australian woman to graduate in law from Sydney University? In what year did she graduate? 286. A well-known figure in Sydney from the mid-twenties to the sixties, she was a voracious reader, often refused to pay cab fares, gave recitations of Shakespeare wearing a green tennis shade. In old age she claimed, ‘I have no allergies that I know of, one complex, no delusions, two inhibitions, no neuroses, three phobias, no superstitions and no frustrations.’ She is the subject of Kate Grenville’s novel, Lilian’s Story. What is her name? 287. I was born in 1843 in England and when in my late thirties my eyesight began to fail I turned from working with silver, woodcarving and embroidery to gardening. I designed many gardens based on blending colour in the style of French Impressionist painters. I worked for many years with architect Edward Lutyens, designing gardens for his houses. My gardens broke with the Victorian tradition of ‘bedding out’, and instead were ‘wild’, extensively using native plants and herbs. I died in 1932. Who am I? 288. Who is the contemporary British photographer who has documented her own breast cancer? 289. Which American photographer famous for her photographs of people during the Depression era said: ‘. . . being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.’ ? 290. A film was made in the last decade about two European-born Mexican artists – one a painter, the other a photographer. What are their names? 291. Her work has been described as the ‘quintessence of the idealizing Victorian frame of mind’. She lived from 1815 to 1879. Her

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photographic subjects include Stella Duckworth, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell. Who is she? 292. New York photographer, Lisette Model, through her street photographs provided inspiration for which other New York photographer famous for portraits of people on the margins? 293. In 1937 the English artist, Gluck said of her painting entitled, Medallion, ‘We are not an affair – We are husband and wife.’ What kind of relationship was it? 294. Testament of Friendship (1940) is a biography of Winifred Holtby but also explores the subject of friendship among women. Who was its author? What was her relationship to Winifred Holtby? 295. Who were the three famous women writers who loved each other in various combinations, and whose first names all started with V ? 296. Who is Virginia Woolf’s Orlando modelled on? 297. Helen Ambrose, a character in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, is based on which relative? 298. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s lifelong companion was . . . ? 299. What is the pen-name of Alma Routsong? 300. Radclyffe Hall provided a model for many writers. In 1928 Djuna Barnes satirized her and Una Troubridge as Lady BuckandBaulk and Tilly-Tweed-in-Blood in which book? 301. The following lines are written on whose gravestone: And if God choose / I shall but love thee better / after death. / Una.? 302. Lady Eleanor Butler lived in Llangollen with . . . ? 303. Their cow was called . . . ? 304. What word does Gertrude Stein use as a metaphor for orgasm in Lifting Belly? 305. Who wrote Conversations With Cow ? 306. I was born in Melbourne, Australia and moved to Britain during the 1970s. My first book of poems was Hecate’s Charms. I have also

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written a novel, Between Friends and a book on the life and art of Dorothy Richardson. I have written widely on modernist women writers and on lesbian culture and lifestyle. In 1986 I co-authored a collection of poems with Suniti Namjoshi. Who am I? 307. Who said the following to her brother, Cesare, after the murder of her second husband:‘. . . my husbands have been very unlucky.’ ? 308. I was the most distinguished teacher at Salerno, a medieval medical university in Italy. My existence has been denied by several historians in spite of the fact that my manuscripts are held in several European museums. In my day I was referred to as a magistra medicinae. I was particularly famous for managing women’s health problems and well known as a diagnostician. I treated conditions such as prolapsed uterus, was the first to describe the dermatological manifestations of syphilis and used opiates for pain management. Who am I? 309. Mechtild of Magdeburg lived in an independent community of nuns. By what name were these independent convents known? 310. Maryse Condé, author of Heremakhonon, comes from the Antilles. In what language does she write? 311. In The Odyssey who says: ‘Careless to please, with insolence ye woo!’ as she undoes another night’s weaving? 312. Which famous 16th century Spanish philosopher and mystic of the Carmelite order said the following: ‘We are not angels and we have bodies. To want to become angels while we are still on earth. . . is ridiculous.’ 313. I was born in Kent, but spent my childhood in Surinam, Guyana. I married at eighteen, but my husband soon died. At the age of 26, I went to Antwerp as a spy for Charles II, but fell out of favour and ended up in debtors’ prison. I was the first woman in the world to support myself on my writing alone. I wrote poems, histories, novels and seventeen plays, including The Rover in which one of my characters, Lady Knowall says: ‘Can anything that’s great or moving be expressed in filthy English.’ My novel was called Oronooko, or the History of the Royal Slave. Who am I? 314. The greatest name in medieval Dutch literature was probably also a beguine and possibly the head of a beguinage. She wrote poems that are complex mystical visions. What was her name?

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315. By what name were Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Fatima Velho da Coata and Maria Teresa Horta collectively known? 316. I was born near Barcelona in 1908 and became involved in the Surrealist movement. I was forced into exile when the fascists took over in Spain and in 1940 I was arrested and interned in a French concentration camp. I later left Marseilles as a refugee and arrived in Mexico City at the end of 1941. I worked closely with my friend, Leonora Carrington. My paintings play with the transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary and include works such as Embroidering Earth’s Mantle, Creation of Birds, Solar Music. Who am I? 317. In what musical art form did Peggy Glanville-Hicks work? 318. Who loved a sunburnt country? 319. Australia’s best known Aboriginal poet is the author of We Are Going, The Dawn is at Hand, My People and Stradbroke Dreaming. What is her name? 320. What is the name of the book by Katherine Susannah Pritchard that centres on the life of an Aboriginal woman? 321. Which writer left Australia and lived for many years on the Greek island of Hydra? 322. Who am I? I was born in England and later came to Australia. My family ran a Quaker home for down-and-outs. I worked as a nurse, a real-estate agent and a teacher. My manuscripts were rejected for many years. I am now considered one of Australia’s finest writers. My name is . . . ? 323. Which novelist was born in Persia, grew up on a farm in Southern Rhodesia and moved to England in 1949? 324. George Eliot is to Mary Anne Evans as Isak Dinesen is to . . . ? and Henry Handel Richardson is to . . . ? 325. Ruth Rendell also writes as . . . ? 326. Hercule Poirot is to Agatha Christie as Adam Dalgliesch is to . . . ? 327. Everyone knows her pen-name, but what was George Sand’s real name? 328. Henry James had a sister who was also a writer. Her name was . . . ?

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329. My name is Mira, and I’m friends with Val, Isolde, Kyla, Clarissa and Grete. We all appear in which novel? 330. Which woman writer created: Lola Blau Mrs Ramsay Kezia Miss Peabody Snugglepot Squeaker’s mate

Sybylla Melvyn Louie Pollitt Evelina Fadette Maggie Tulliver Emma

331. Angel at My Table is the second volume of Janet Frame’s autobiography. What are the titles of the first and third volumes? 332. My forebears are Orcadian, Lancashire and Maori. I worked in Woolworths, as well as being a fish and chip cook, a postie, a tobacco picker, a journalist and trainee TV director before retiring to write full time. I am also a devoted white baiter. My first novel was rejected by many publishers until a group of women formed Spiral Collective in order to publish it. The book won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction, the Mobil Pegasus Prize as well as the Booker Prize. Who am I? And what was the title of the book? 333. When I left school I trained as a jockey. I spent ten years living in the Greek Islands. When I returned to Australia I moved into radio. I was one of the early members of the Coming Out Show team. I presented First Edition and later The Europeans. I am now a Commissioning Editor for Arts National on ABC Radio. Who am I? 334. I was thrown out of the convent I attended in Townsville on my fourteenth birthday. A long-time activist for Aboriginal causes in Australia I was part of the Aboriginal Embassy that stood on the lawns of Parliament House for seven months in 1972. In the 80s I attended Harvard University where I received my doctorate. I am the author of a number of books including one I wrote with MumShirl. I have also written Love Poems and Other Revolutionary Actions and most recently Black Majority. Who am I? 335. Elsie Roughsey, who wrote An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New, a book about her life on Mornington Island in the Torres Strait, is also known by another name. What is it? 336. I was born in New Zealand and I am famous around the world for my recitals of Mozart, opera and popular songs. Who am I?

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337. I was born in Edinburgh in 1928. I studied music in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. I have worked as a conductor and have written opera, including The Voice of Ariadne (1973) as well as works for flute, Orfeo (1975) and dance. Who am I? 338. I was born in Canada, on Vancouver Island, in 1871. The Nootka people called me Klee Wyck, Laughing One. I painted many villages and totem poles in places such as Queen Charlotte Islands. My paintings were not recognized or appreciated until I was in my sixties. I am now one of Canada’s best known artists and I am recognized for developing a distinctive Canadian style. Who am I? 339. Who co-founded The Hogarth Press in 1917? 340. Which story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman written in 1892 and based on her own life tells of a young mother driven mad and confined in a room by her doctor / husband? 341. Which of Christina Stead’s novels, although set in 1930s Baltimore and Annapolis, actually draws on her childhood memories of Sydney? 342. Who showed up the publishing and literary world’s treatment of new writers by using the pseudonym Jane Somers for her book The Diary of a Good Neighbour? 343. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is based on the story of the mad wife in which Brontë novel? 344. Over the past few years there has been a campaign to preserve May Gibbs’ Sydney home. The house is known as . . . ? 345. Name the author and the title of the novel about love, junkies and communal living that caused a stir when it was first published in Australia in 1977. 346. What do Jane, Julie, Gina and Alice have in common? 347. What is inscribed on the gold medallion that Barb gives to Brenda in Lisa Alther’s Other Women? 348. Name three of the roles reconciled by Morgan Rose in Mothers and Lovers by Elizabeth Wood. 349. Who uttered the immortal words: ‘My weight is always perfect for my height which varies.’ ?

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350. And who created both the words and the character? 351. Who was Helen Keller’s teacher? 352. A book in the New Testament – Acts – tells of a woman called Lydia who was a business woman in the rag trade. What commodity did she buy and sell? 353. In the novel Pride and Prejudice Lydia married Mr Wickham, and Elizabeth married Mr Darcy. Whom did Jane marry? 354. Colette writes of a ‘sapphic poet’ in The Pure and the Impure. To whom is she referring? 355. Who wrote the poem ‘Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded’? 356. What is the name of Sally Morgan’s grandmother in My Place? 357. What other artform, in addition to writing, does Sally Morgan work in? 358. I was born in Russia in 1885 and in 1913 I invented pasted cutouts as a design technique, one which Henri Matisse was to use towards the end of his career. My designs influenced Paul Klee and my designs with stripes predated the American painters use of them by some forty years. By 1925 I was designing clothes that could still be worn today and be regarded as avant garde. The fabrics I designed were worn by Gloria Swanson and Nancy Cunard and the designs influenced the direction of modern clothing. I also designed sets and costumes for the theatre, film and ballet. In 1975 I designed a poster for UNESCO on the occasion of International Women’s Year. I died in 1979 aged ninety-four. Who am I? 359. Tasma is the pseudonym of what Australian writer? 360. Who wrote the long poem Goblin Market? 361. What is the title of Edith Bagnold’s famous book about a horse? 362. A popular English writer who writes both fiction and philosophy, what is her name? 363. What do Elizabeth Evatt, Deirdre O’Connor and Sally Thomas have in common?

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364. The Congregationalist Church (now part of the Uniting Church) was the first church in Australia to ordain a woman, Winifred Kiek. In which year was she ordained? 365. Who launched her first and much-awaited book Through My Eyes in 1991? 366. H. D. are the initials of which American writer? 367. Who wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas? 368. I was born Tamara Gorska in Warsaw in 1898. Described in 1923 as the best of the Art Deco painters, my work combines strength and sensuality. I divorced my first husband, Tadeuz in 1928 and married a Hungarian Baron, Raoul Kuffner. I lived in Paris, Hollywood and New York and decorated the apartments of my friends including Helena Rubinstein’s sister, Muzka Bernard. Many of my paintings are of women, including Les Jeunes Filles (1928) and a self portrait called Auto-Portrait (Tamara in Green Bugatti) (1925). By what name am I known? 369. I am the author of One Writer’s Beginnings. I lived in Mississippi in the 1930s amongst rural blacks about whom I wrote and whom I photographed. What is my name? 370. In 1981 the life of a !Kung woman was published in which she says: ‘There isn’t a child whose birth is painless. It hurts like a terrible sickness.’ What is her name? 371. I was born in Nigeria where I still live. My Ibu foremothers handed down a tradition of great strength to me. I am one of the best known African writers and the author of Ifuru and the long poem Cassava Song and Rice Song which deals with the politics of agriculture in third world nations. My press, Tana Press was the first independent women’s press in Africa. Who am I?

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264. Piaf.

239. Thirteen.

265. Phranc.

240. Flora Tristan. Highgate Cemetery, London (next to Marx).

266. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

241. Judy Garland (1922–1969). 242. Mary Pickford. 243. Gloria Swanson. 244. Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. 245. Francesca Miles, independent feminist detective, in Melissa Chan’s novel, Too Rich.

267. Clara Schumann. 268. Fanny Mendelssohn. 269. Menolly. 270. Margaret Mitchell. 271. Letters to my Daughter. 272. Maud Sulter. 273. Miles Franklin. 274. Dymphna Cusack.

246. Elizabeth Taylor, in 1964.

275. Margaret Catchpole (1762–1819).

247. By the guillotine.

276. Anne Bradstreet.

248. Mary Shelley.

277. Victoria Woodhull, nominated by the Equal Rights Party in 1872.

249. Tuberculosis. 250. Maria. 251. She took poison at age forty–two. 252. Martina Navratilova. 253. Babe Didrickson. 254. Mother-in-law. 255. Her mother.

278. Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin. 279. Mae West (1892–1980). 280. Lady Bird Johnson. 281. Marie Antoinette. 282. Rosa Luxemburg.

256. Louisa Briggs.

283. United Nations General Assembly.

257. Hyllus Maris.

284. Contagious Diseases Acts.

258. Writer.

285. 1902. She was not admitted to practise as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales until 1921. After fighting each year subsequent to her graduation for the passage of the Women’s Legal Status Act to enable her to go into practice.

259. Bessie. 260. Forty-two minutes! 261. Sixty-seven. 262. Cécile Chaminade. 263. Yoko Ono.

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The Act was passed in 1918. Then, in order to comply with the Barristers’ Admission Rules, shehad to be registered as a student-at-law for two years.

310. French.

286. Bea Miles.

314. Hadewijch (Hadewych).

287. Gertrude Jekyll.

315. The Three Marias.

288. Jo Spence.

316. Remedios Varo.

289. Dorothea Lange.

317. Opera.

290. Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti.

318. Dorothea MacKellar.

311. Penelope. 312. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582). 313. Aphra Behn (1640–1689).

291. Julia Margaret Cameron.

319. Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker).

292. Diane Arbus.

320. Coonardoo.

293. Lesbian (her lover was Nesta Obermer, the painting is reproduced on the Virago edition of Radclyffe Hall’s, The Well of Loneliness).

321. Charmian Clift.

294. Vera Brittain (1896–1970). Friend and lover. 295. Virginia Woolf / Vita Sackville-West / Violet Trefusis.

322. Elizabeth Jolley. 323. Doris Lessing. 324. Karen Blixen; Ethel Florence Robertson. 325. Barbara Vine. 326. P. D. James.

298. Valentine Ackland.

327. Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin (named at birth) Baronne Dudevant (changed to in later life).

299. Isabel Miller.

328. Alice James.

300. The Ladies’ Almanac.

329. The Women’s Room by Marilyn French.

296. Vita Sackville-West. 297. Vanessa Bell.

301. Radclyffe Hall. 302. Sarah Ponsonby. 303. Margaret Ponsonby. 304. Cow. 305. Suniti Namjoshi. 306. Gillian Hanscombe. 307. Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519). 308. Trotula. 309. Beguinages.

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330. Lola Blau Robyn Archer Sybylla Melvyn Miles Franklin Mrs Ramsay Virginia Woolf Louie Pollitt Christina Stead Kezia Katherine Mansfield Evelina Fanny Burney Miss Peabody Elizabeth Jolley Fadette George Sand Snugglepot May Gibbs Maggie Tulliver George Eliot Squeaker’s mate Barbara Baynton Emma Jane Austen

Answers 331. To the Is-Land / The Envoy from Mirror City. 332. Keri Hulme, for ner novel, the bone people. 333. Julie Copeland.

Lives 354. Renée Vivien. 355. Gertrude Stein. 356. Daisy Corunna. 357. Painting / Prints.

334. Roberta Sykes.

358. Sonia Delauney.

335. Labumore.

359. Jessie Couvreur.

336. Kiri Te Kanawa.

360. Christina Rosetti.

337. Thea Musgrave.

361. National Velvet.

338. Emily Carr.

362. Iris Murdoch.

339. Virginia Woolf.

363. Each was the first woman appointed to head a Court / Tribunal in Australia. Justice Elizabeth Evatt was the first Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia, and the first woman Chief Judge of that court. Justice Deirdre O’Connor was the first woman appointed as President of the (Federal) Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Sally Thomas, C. M is Chief Magistrate of the Northern Territory Magistrates’ Court, and the first woman ever appointed to head a Magistrates Court in Australia.

340. The Yellow Wallpaper. 341. The Man Who Loved Children. 342. Doris Lessing. 343. Jane Eyre. 344. Nutcote. 345. Helen Garner / Monkey Grip. 346. Their mother, Joanna May in Fay Weldon’s novel. 347. Plus que hier, moins que demain / More than yesterday, less than tomorrow. 348. Head girl, hockey star, bush nurse, rebel, actress, feminist, wife, lesbian and mother.

364. 1927. 365. Lindy Chamberlain. 366. Hilda Doolittle. 367. Gertrude Stein.

349. Sylvia.

368. Tamara de Lempicka.

350. Nicole Hollander.

369. Eudora Welty.

351. Anne Sullivan. 352. Purple cloth.

370. Nisa (from the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman).

353. Mr Bingley.

371. Flora Nwapa.

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Time and Place 372. Before Everest was renamed after a Western man (Sir George Everest) the traditional name was Chomo-Lung Ma. What is the meaning of this name? 373. Name the place or culture of origin of the following goddesses: Blodeuwedd Isis Nastséestsan Aphrodite Kunapipi Kuanyin Oya Brigit Chicomecoatl Sarasvati Freya Pele Harity Mokosh 374. Hatshepsut said: ‘My command stands firm like the mountains and the sun’s disk shines and spreads rays over the titulary of my august person, and my falcon rises high above the kingly banner unto all eternity.’ Which country did she rule? 375. What is the name of the mountaineer who wrote the popular book Clouds from Both Sides and who died in 1986 on the mountain, K2, that she had just successfully climbed? 376. Who am I? I was born in 1831 in Yorkshire, England. I came from a staid church family which I didn’t leave until I was in my forties. Once I left, however, I really left, travelling all over the world and writing about my adventures with a lively and witty hand. I travelled to the Rocky Mountains, Japan, Korea, Hawaii and many other places. 377. In which century did Lady Ho of China write the following: ‘When a pair of magpies fly together / They do not envy the pair of phoenixes.’? 378. Where does the band, ‘The Flying Lesbians’ come from? 379. From where do Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders originate? 380. From which culture did the poet, Macuilxochitl (1435–1499) come?

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381. Who invented Kabuki theatre? 382. The Book of the City of Ladies was written by Christine de Pisan in what century? 383. In which country did Khosrovidoukht Koghtnatsi (died 737) and Nahabed Kouchak (15th century) live? 384. Lal Ded, 16th-century poet from the Indian subcontinent, wrote in which language? 385. Which queen of England said: ‘Much suspected of me, / Nothing proved can be.’? 386. Where were the following lines by Lady Jane Grey written: ‘Think not, O mortal, vainly gay, / That thou from human woes art free; / The bitter cup I drink today, / Tomorrow may be drunk by thee.’? 387. Where was Caterina Sforza (1462–1509) when she wrote: ‘Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.’? 388. In what century did Jezebel say : ‘. . . arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry. . .’? (Kings, 21:7) 389. The Olgas in Central Australia were named after the Grand Duchess Olga Constantinova of which country? 390. What’s so special about Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland? 391. Amazon Acres, Herland and The Valley in New South Wales are collectively known as . . . ? 392. From which modern-day countries did the ancient Thermadontines or Amazons come? 393. Of which ancient city were Khaizuran and Zubaidah queens? 394. Which famous ancient women were supposed to come from Libya? 395. In which language did Venmanipputi, write: ‘my arms grow beautiful / in the coupling / and grow lean / as they come away. / What shall I make of this?’ (Other poets who wrote in the same language between the first and tenth centuries AD include: Auvaiyar, Kaccipettu Nannakaiyar, Okkur Macatti and Andal. These poets are amongst the earliest writers on the Indian sub-continent.) 47

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396. In which Indo-European language did the following poets write in the 500 year period from 650–1150 AD? Sila, Silabhlattarika, Vidya, Mahodahi, Vallana and Marula? 397. Queen Dahia-al Kahina in the 7th and 8th centuries resisted the advance of Islam and Christianity into Africa, including recapturing the ancient city of Carthage from the Arab general, Hassan-ben-Numan. Which modern-day country still bears the scars of her defensive action of laying the land waste so that food and water shortages would discourage the Arabs from returning? 398. In what year did Moroccan women gain the right to choose their own husbands? 399. Penthesilea was queen of what people? 400. What sisterhood did Brynhild belong to? 401. Melpomene, a Greek woman, ran the official marathon in four and a half hours, at the first modern Olympics. In what year was that? 402. When was the Olympic Marathon first opened to women? 403. Who rode from Ireland to India on a bicycle, and then wrote a book about it? 404. When was the first cycling event for women at the Olympics? 405. Who cycled down the Nile river from beginning to end? 406. Which country was ruled by the following women: Neith-hotep, Mer-Neith, Anchnesmerir, Nitocris, Sobeknofru, Ahotep, AhmoseNefetere, Hatshepsut, Mutemwia and Ta-wsret? 407. Gwerfyl Mechain (1460–1500) wrote: ‘The moon in its robes of snow clouds / welcomes you / and your silver coins.’ Where does she come from? 408. Which people worshipped the horse goddess Epona? 409. Described as two of Japan’s legendary poets, Izumi Shikibu and Ono No Komachi wrote the following love poems: Izumi Shikibu: ‘Why haven’t I / thought of it before? / This body, / remembering yours, / is the keepsake you left’ Ono No Komachi: ‘My longing for you – / too strong to keep within bounds. / At least no one can blame

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me / when I go to at night / along the road of dreams.’ They wrote during the period when the emperors ruled from the city of Heiankyo. Which modern-day city is this? 410 Sulpicia wrote: ‘Drat my hateful birthday / to be spent in the boring old country.’ and, ‘Friends worry about me and are upset that somehow / I might tumble into bed with a nobody.’ In what language did Sulpicia write? 411. Hildegard of Bingen was the head of what kind of institution? 412. Where are Ursula Le Guin’s Tombs in the second of her Earthsea series? 413. Where does Persephone go in Autumn? 414. Who helped Theseus to find his way out of the labyrinth of Knossos? 415. Who wrote Briefing for a Descent into Hell ? 416. From what country does Teresa of Avila come? 417. In which European language did the Jefimija (1348–1405) and Jevgenija (1353–1405) write? 418. Name the countries the following writers come from: Nawal El Saadawi Luisa Valenzuela Clarice Lispector Isabel Allende Bessie Head Maxine Hong Kingston Christa Wolf Marina Tsvetaeva Janet Frame Molly Keane 419. Where is Jeanette Winterson’s novel, Sexing the Cherry, set? 420. Which arty and literary sisters lived at 46 Gordon Square in London? 421. Katherine Mansfield was born in which country? 422. What’s at 84 Charing Cross Road, and who was interested? 423. What’s at 68 Charing Cross Road, London today? 424. The Orient Express that Agatha Christie so immortalized began and finished its journey in which cities?

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425. Which much celebrated and highly eccentric Victorian lady traveller and writer spent the last twenty-five years of her life in an old monastery, DarDjoun, in the foothills of Mount Lebanon? 426. In which year did British yachtswoman, Frances Clytie RivettCarnac win her event? 427. Maria Cunitz published a simplification of Keppler’s tables of planetary motion entitled, Urania propitia sive tabulae astronomicae mire faciles, vim hypothesium physicarum a Kepplero proditarum complexae, facillimo calculandi compendio sine ulla logarithmorum mentione phenomenis satisfacietes in 1650. In which country did she live? 428. Dorothea Bocchi (Bucca) was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Bologna in which century? 429. Professor Enid Campbell was appointed the first female Professor of Law at what Australian university in 1967? 430. In which year did Marie Curie isolate a decigram of radium chloride, thereby enabling her to make the first determination of the atomic weight of radium, 225.93? 431. To which group of people do the following statistics apply: they are responsible for more than 50% of food production in developing countries; on the African continent they do 60–80% of all agricultural work, 50% of animal husbandry and 100% of all food processing; in industrialized countries they are paid one half to three quarters of what is considered the standard wage; they make up 90% of all refugee populations? 432. Match the following jumbled job ghettos for women in the 1980s with the country in which they occur: doctors, road repair UK secretarial, office cleaning Mexico garment industry, electronics assembly Nepal lace working, cigarette production China Market trading, teaching Uganda road building Brazil charcoal selling India bank tellers former USSR weaving USA cotton and rice harvesting Iran 433. What percentage of women are in the workforce in: Barbados, Romania, Mozambique, Sweden? (1975 percentages): 0–15%, 16–25%, 26–35%, 36–45%, over 45%? 50

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434. What percentage of women are doing agricultural work in: Turkey, Mali, Madagascar? (1975 percentages): 0–20%, 21–40%, 41–60%, 61–80%, over 81%. 435. In which three Asian countries is sex tourism a major problem for women? 436. Feminist writer, Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo coined the phrase ‘pornography of power’ to describe the basic connection between the propaganda of violence against women (pornography) and the practice of that violence. Which country does she come from? 437. Wivi Lönn (1872–1966) was the first woman architect in which country? 438. Which famous children’s writer comes from Finland? 439. What does Winnie the Witch finally do about her cat? 440. Who created the language Láadan? 441. Which feminist science fiction writer created the world of ‘Grass’? 442. Doris Lessing’s first novel The Grass is Singing is set in which country? 443. When did Zimbabwe win the Women’s Hockey Gold Medal? 444. Who won the Women’s Hockey Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympics? 445. Who won the 1991 Netball World Title? 446. In what year did Jean Shrimpton shock Australians by wearing a mini-skirt to Derby Day? 447. Where did Joan Lindsay’s picnic take place? 448. The novel Come in Spinner by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James is set in what city? 449. Where was Gladys Moncrieff born? 450. Who thought up the classic horror story ‘The Lottery’ as she returned home from a shopping expedition wheeling her baby in a pram? 51

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451. The following Australian authors are associated with which jumbled places? Daisy Bates Blue Hills Jean Devanny Brindabella / Bin Bin Colleen McCulloch Gippsland Eve Langley Montsalvat Gwen Meredith Murray River Miles Franklin Perth / Western Australia Nancy Cato Norfolk Island Betty Roland Nullabor Plains Aeneas Gunn Queensland’s cane fields Elizabeth Jolley The Never-Never 452. Where did Harry Lavender spend his life and commit his crimes? 453. What type of car does Katherine Forrest’s detective Kate Delafield drive? 454. Where does V. I. Warshawski live and work? Who is her creatrix? 455. Which artist is responsible for inviting thirty-nine international guests to a dinner party? 456. Under which two paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art do the characters in Sandra Shotlander’s play Framework meet? 457. Berenice Abbott’s photographs are associated with which city? 458. Which great poet lived in Amherst, Massachusetts? 459. Patti Smith sings about searching on Redondo Beach? Where is Redondo Beach? 460. Leonora Carrington still lives in Mexico, though she also spends time in the US. She is both a painter and a writer. Her books include The Hearing Trumpet and Down Below, an account of her time in an asylum in Spain in 1942. She is one of many women who were active in the surrealist movement and both her paintings and writings draw on magical and occult traditions. In which country was she born? 461. In which country is Harriet Doerr’s Stones for Ibarra set? 462. Sex tests were introduced for women at the Olympic Games held in Mexico. Which year was that? 52

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463. Graciela Iturbide uses her sense of the bizarre and of the incongruous as a weapon. Women pose with iguanas on their heads or alongside a crocodile. From which country does Graciela Iturbide come? 464. From which country does Rigoberta Menchú come? 465. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992? 466. Fanny Burney, who lived into her nineties, wrote about age: ‘How true it is, yet how consistent. . . that while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old.’ and, ‘But an old woman. . . is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can’t get rid of her.’ Which two centuries does her life span? 467. Jeanne Marie Roland (1754–1793), just before being guillotined, said: ‘O liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!’ On what monument are these words inscribed? 468. When did Marie Antoinette say: ‘I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.’? 469. Which country in the world has the only Feminist Party in government? 470. Who was elected Prime Minister of Norway in November 1990? 471. In what year did Indira Gandhi become Prime Minister of India? 472. Who dreamt of Manderley? 473. In 1982, German sociologist, Maria Mies wrote a book entitled The Lace Makers of Naraspur. In which country is Naraspur? 474. Which Burmese political figure won 80 per cent of the vote in elections held in 1989, and was then put under house arrest where she has remained since that time? In 1991 she won the Nobel Peace Prize. 475. Ambaphali wrote in the 4th century BC: ‘Such was my body once. Now it is weary and tottering, the home of many ills, an old house with flaking plaster.’ In what country did Ambaphali live? 476. In which language does Najma mostly write and sing?

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477. Sophie Mgcina wrote the music for Poppie Nongena. This is a musical based on the life story of a woman from which country? 478. Ruth Neto was the elected Secretary-General of OMA in 1984. In which African country did OMA operate? 479. The novel Ties of Blood by Gillian Slovo is set in which country? 480. The Dictionary of Composers and their Music lists only seven women composers: Amy Mary Beach (1867–1944), Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944), Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907– ), Thea Musgrave (1928– ), Priaulx Rainier (1903– ) and Ethel Smyth (1858–1944). In which countries were these composers born? 481. From what country does the singer Mary Coughlan come? 482. Of which country was Maria Callas a citizen when she died? 483. Who was known as the ‘Sibyl of the Rhine’? 484. From what country does Saint Bridget come? 485. Margery Kempe, the English mystic and writer, lived in which English county? 486. In which country was Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill born? 487. Which village was the home of the Brontë sisters? 488. Hannah Wakefield’s Emma Victor was born in . . . . and moved to . . . . . to live and work. 489. Who is the woman at the helm? 490. In which language did Empress Nur Jahan write the following lines: ‘Your love turned my body / into water.’? 491. ‘You’ve made me all wet and slippery, / But no matter how hard you try / Nothing happens. So stop. / Go and make somebody else / Unsatisfied.’ In what century did the Chinese poet, Huang O write these lines? 492. Esther said, ‘Never let men mock at our ruin.’ Of what country was Esther Queen?

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493. In which Australian state was Aboriginal playwright, Eva Johnson’s play, Tjindarella, first performed? 494. Who wrote ‘Down City Streets’ which appears on Archie Roach’s Charcoal Lane cassette tape? 495. Wandering Girl, published by Magabala Books, an Aboriginalrun press, and written by Glenyse Ward describes events from Glenyse Ward’s life that took place in which Australian state? 496. Shame, a film about rape, was made in which country? 497. How much money did Pat Lovell pay for an option to make a movie from the book, Picnic at Hanging Rock? 498. Which Pankhurst came to Australia? 499. Judo appears as a competitive sport for the first time for women in the Olympics in which year? 500. The first gold medal to be won by a woman in a swimming event was won by Fanny Durack in 1912. Which country was she representing? 501. In which year did Mary Decker and Zola Budd collide? 502. Anne of Green Gables’ fame lived on which island? 503. In which century did the French poet, Louise Labé live? 504. Name five expatriate women writers who lived in Paris during the heady days between 1900 and 1940. 505. Who lived at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris? 506. Which famous poet lived on the Greek island of Lesbos? 507. Who was the first woman to attempt to fly around the world? 508. Ursula Le Guin wrote The Word for World is . . . ? 509. What does Gaia mean?

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Time and Place – Answers 372. Goddess Mother of the Universe. 373. Blodeuwedd – Wales Isis – Egypt Nastséestsan – Navajo Aphrodite – Greece Kunapipi – Australia Kuanyin – China Oya – Yoruba Brigit – Ireland Chicomecoatl – Mexico Sarasvati – India Freya – Norway Pele – Hawaii Harity – Afghanistan Mokosh – Russia

389. Russia. 390. It is an Amazon country run by and for women. It is considered a dangerous place for men to visit. 391. The Women’s Land. 392. Iran and Iraq. 393. Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid dynasty in the 8th and 9th centuries AD, or according to Islamic reckoning the 2nd century AH.

374. Egypt.

394. The Amazons. The Libyan Amazons rode on horseback and Strabo said of them ‘there have been many generations of belligerent women in Libya’.

375. Julie Tullis.

395. Classical Tamil.

376. Isabella Bird.

396. Sanskrit.

377. 300 BC.

397. Tunisia.

378. Berlin.

398. 1958.

379. Pern.

399. The Amazons.

380. Aztec.

400. The Valkyries.

381. Japanese courtesans in the 16th century.

401. 1896.

382. Fifteenth century. 383. Armenia. 384. Kashmiri. 385. Elizabeth I (1533–1603). 386. On a prison wall at the Tower of London in 1554. 387. In prison, in the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome. 388. 9th century BC (874 BC–853 BC).

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402. 1984. 403. Dervla Murphy. 404. 1984. 405. Bettina Selby. 406. Ancient Egypt, also called Kemet. 407. Wales. 408. Celts/Welsh. 409. Kyoto 410. Latin.

Answers 411. Convent. 412. Atuan. 413. Hades/The Underworld. 414. Ariadne. 415. Doris Lessing. 416. Spain. 417. Serbian. 418. Nawal El Saadawi – Egypt Luisa Valenzuela – Argentina Clarice Lispector – Brazil Isabel Allende – Chile Bessie Head – Botswana Maxine Hong Kingston – China Christa Wolf – Germany Marina Tsvetaeva – Russia Janet Frame – New Zealand Molly Keane – Ireland 419. The Thames River, London. 420. Vanessa and Virginia Stephen. 421. New Zealand. 422. An English bookshop (Messrs. Marks and Co.) / Miss Helene Hanff writes to the staff. 423. The feminist bookshop, Silver Moon Books. 424. London and Constantinople (Istanbul). 425. Lady Hester Stanhope.

Time and Place 431. Women (and children are included in the final 90% statistic). 432. doctors, road repair – former USSR secretarial, office cleaning – UK garment industry, electronics assembly – Mexico lace working, cigarette production – India Market trading, teaching – Brazil road building – Nepal charcoal selling – Uganda bank tellers – USA weaving – Iran cotton and rice harvesting – China 433. All have over 45%. 434. All are over 81%, and this does not include subsistence agriculture which would involve many more women. 435. Thailand, Philippines, South Korea. 436. Portugal. 437. Finland. 438. Tove Jansson. 439. Instead of changing the cat different colours, she changes the house. 440. Suzette Haden Elgin in her novel, Native Tongue. 441. Sheri S. Tepper. 442. Rhodesia / Zimbabwe.

426. 1908.

443. 1980.

427. Germany.

444. Australia.

428. Fourteenth century (1390), she held the post for forty years.

445. Australia.

429. Monash University.

447. Hanging Rock.

430. 1902.

448. Sydney.

446. 1964.

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Answers 468. 1793, on October 14 at the revolutionary tribunal. 469. Iceland. 470. Gro Harlem Brundtland (she was also Prime Minister in 1981 and 1986–89). 471. 1966. 472. The second Mrs Maxim de Winter, in Daphne du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca. 473. India. 474. Aung San Suu Kyi. 475. India. 476. Urdu. 477. South Africa.

453. Plymouth.

478. Angola. OMA = Organization of Angolan Women.

454. Chicago, Sara Paretsky.

479. South Africa.

455. Judy Chicago.

480. USA, France, England, England, Scotland, South Africa, England.

456. ‘Black Iris’ by Georgia O’Keefe and ‘Gertrude Stein’ by Pablo Picasso. 457. New York. 458. Emily Dickinson. 459. Los Angeles. 460. England. 461. Mexico. 462. 1968. 463. Mexico. 464. Guatemala. 465. Rigoberta Menchú. 466. 18th and 19th centuries (1752–1840). 467. The Statue of Liberty, New York City.

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481. Ireland. 482. Greece. 483. Hildegard of Bingen. 484. Ireland. 485. Norfolk. 486. Ireland (1743–1790). 487. Haworth. 488. USA / England. 489. Jeannine Talley – sailor. 490. Persian. 491. 16th century (during the Ming Dynasty). 492. Persia. (Esther, 4: 17).

Answers 493. In South Australia at the Aboriginal Women’s Arts Festival in 1984. 494. Ruby Hunter. 495. Western Australia. 496. Australia. 497. $100, in 1972.

Time and Place 503. Sixteenth century (c.1524–1566). 504. Djuna Barnes / Natalie Barney / Kay Boyle / Colette / Nancy Cunard / H. D. / Janet Flanner / Mina Loy / Jean Rhys / Solita Solano / Gertrude Stein / Alice B. Toklas / Renée Vivien.

498. Adele.

505. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

499. 1992.

506. Sappho.

500. Australia.

507. Amelia Earhart.

501. 1984 in the 3000 m race.

508. Forest.

502. Prince Edward Island.

509. Earth – originally from Greek.

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/ Who took care of you in your house, / a man? / Idiots! / Why do you vomit insults, screaming / ‘woman, woman!’ / What special virtue is there in a son / or perdition in a daughter? / Here and in the other world / happiness / comes to a person, not a gender. / A crude man is nothing, / A noble daughter is blessed forever.’ What is the poet’s name? 516. Who said: ‘A quarrel between women is a victory for patriarchy?’ 517. Who was the then little-known writer who wrote the following in a book published in 1936: ‘. . . there is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everyone nowadays is a father, there is Father Mussolini, and Father Hitler and Father Roosevelt and Father Stalin – and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing, England is the only country now that has not got one and they are more cheerful there than anywhere.’ 518. What issues does Eva Johnson write about in her three-monologue play, What Do They Call Me? 519. Bessy Cameron of the Nyungar people in Western Australia was well known as an accomplished pianist. She was appointed as a teacher of Aboriginal people at Lake Tyers, but her work was closely scrutinized. Due to the forces of racism Bessy was sacked and reinstated several times, as well as being forced to move off land by the Half-Caste Act in 1886. By the end of her life she was fighting again on behalf of her children and her children’s children. For what end was she fighting? 520. Her work was described, during Hitler’s reign, as degenerate. And yet her drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and sculptures done during World War I are amongst the most powerful anti-war art ever produced. She expressed through her work the plight of the oppressed, the causes of peace and social justice, the joys and sorrows of motherhood, and the misery of death. What is her name? 521. I am a Maori filmmaker and my documentaries, Bastion Point and Patu have won prizes in International Film Festivals. I was the first to film current events from a Maori perspective. I said: ‘I think you can use tradition and culture as a form of oppression, or you can use it to progress by extending the barriers. How the hell are we expected to make any kind of progress economically, socially or politically if we continue to sit nicely with our hands folded and our mouths shut. What is my name? 61

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522. Who said: ‘. . . rape . . . is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.’ ? 523. What happens once every ten minutes in Mexico City and once every six minutes in the US? 524. What rape law do Japan, Nigeria, Switzerland, Netherlands, India and Finland have in common? 525. What is involved in infibulation? 526. What is sati (suttee)? 527. In what year in Iran was the ‘protective’ overgarment, the chador made illegal? 528. In what year was the chador once again made compulsory? 529. In 1983 what happened to the following women in Iran: Iran’s first woman physicist, a concert pianist, the former personnel director for Iran Television, a nurse and students? 530. Which Black American political activist, falsely jailed for her politics wrote: ‘The master subjected her to the most elemental form of terrorism distinctly suited to the female: rape.’ ? 531. Which Australian feminist theorist wrote: ‘Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.’ ? 532. What does a misogynist hate? 533. Who said: ‘“Hero” is the surprising word that men employ when they speak of Jack the Ripper’? 534. Ida Wells-Barnett wrote articles for a Memphis newspaper in the 19th century protesting what kind of racist action? 535. The British Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869 were directed at which group of women? 536. In which European country is it still illegal to have an abortion? 537. Who said: ‘If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.’ ? 62

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538. Gloria Steinem wrote the following in which book: ‘So what would happen if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not? . . . Men would brag about how long and how much . . . Gifts, religious ceremonies, family dinners, and stag parties would mark the day . . . Doctors would research little about heart attacks . . . but everything about cramps . . . Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free.’ ? 539. The term Revolutionary Feminists was born at the London Women’s Liberation Movement Conference in 1977 with a paper called ‘The Need for Revolutionary Feminism’. It grew out of Radical Feminism and Lesbian Feminism and by 1978 had grown into a vocal strand of the WLM who later founded WAVAW (Women Against Violence Against Women). Who coined the term? 540. Who framed the Minnesota Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinances which defined pornography as a civil rights issue for women? 541. What do healing, midwifery, impotent men, milkless cows, knowledge of botanical cures, wealth in a woman have in common? 542. What natural skin markings counted as ‘witch’s marks’? 543. ‘Erica Huggins; Frances Carter; Rose Smith; Loretta Luckes; Margaret Hudgins; Maud Frances — 6 sisters in prison; 3 sisters pregnant; 2 sisters almost in labor. All have been falsely accused of conspiracy and murder. None have been tried or found guilty. All 6 are black.’ To which Black organization did they belong? 544. The above statement was published in WITCH in November 1969. What does WITCH stand for? 545. I lived in the USA from 1826 to 1898 and encouraged women to be disloyal to the laws of the fathers. My major work was Woman, Church and State (1893) in which I condemn the church as ‘The most stupendous system of organized robbery and it is woman that is being robbed, thereby . . . not only taking her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry, her opportunities of education, the exercise of her judgement, her own conscience, her own will.’ I was too radical for many of my sisters and have largely been written out of history. Were it not for contemporary feminists such as Mary Daly and Sally Roesch Wagner who have republished my book, I might not been known at all. Who am I? 546. Which country was the first to grant the vote to women without any restriction on class or race? 63

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547. I was the first President of the Woman’s (Federal) Political Association in Australia and the first woman candidate in the British Empire ever to stand for Parliament (the Senate) in 1903. My candidacy was definitely feminist and I directed my campaign at women. I got 51,497 votes which even my opponents recognized as a considerable triumph for anybody – and especially a woman – on a non-party ticket. I stood four more times as an independent both for the Senate and Parliament, but was never successful. Today, my contribution to the first years of the nation’s formation is often forgotten: the boys would have to look at the part they played in keeping me out of power which does not portray them in a flattering light. What is my name? 548. Who wrote March of the Women, a stirring suffragist orchestral work? 549. Place the following jumbled countries and dates in the order in which women achieved the right to vote without any property, class or race restrictions. New Zealand Australia UK France Finland Afghanistan South Africa Argentina

1920 1956 1965 1991 1893 1945 1914 1906

Switzerland USA Germany Russia Egypt Canada Japan

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legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is . . . ?’ 555. Who said: ‘Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.’ ? 556. Who organized the International Women’s Conference Against the War in 1915 against much political opposition? 557. In Sri Lanka in 1973 the prior statistic of women as 26% of the labour force rose steeply to 44.9%. What caused this sudden rise? 558. I had an enormous international reputation at the turn of the last century and my most famous book, Women and Economics (1898) was translated into seven languages. From 1909 to 1916 I edited and wrote for The Forerunner, a monthly US magazine dealing with topics from venereal disease to noise pollution with an overall focus on the rights of women and socialism. Throughout my life I had a passionate friendship with Grace Channing. Today I am mostly remembered for the description of my descent into madness as a new mother, The Yellow Wallpaper, following, but finally resisting Dr. Mitchell’s ‘Rest Cure’ and resuming work which saved my life. Who am I? 559. Which New Zealand economist, writer and ex-politician has written of women’s exclusion from the economics of capitalism and communism? What is the telling title of her book? 560. My slogan was ‘Equal pay, equal status and equal opportunity’ and I fought for this for over fifty years. I worked in many areas of union activity including the Federated Unions in Australia in 1919– 1920. I wrote several influential articles including ‘The Basic Wage Betrayal’ in the early 20s, ‘The Trade Union Women’ in 1928 and ‘Are Women Taking Men’s Jobs?’ in 1935. I proposed maternity and child allowances as a basic right for Australian women in the 20s. I established the Unemployed Girls Relief Movement during the Depression. I died at the age of eighty-nine in poverty in St Kilda. Who am I? 561. Who said: ‘The definition of women’s work is shitwork.’ ? 562. Who am I? I was born in 1858 and died in 1943. My husband and I were socialists. I was one of the founding members of the Fabian Society and the London School of Economics. I published a great deal of work focusing on labour and capital, as well as my diaries. Virginia Woolf didn’t like me at all. My name is . . . ? 563. What did the film For Love or Money deal with? 65

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564. Who said marriage was legal prostitution, but because prostitutes had more control over their time and payments they got a better deal than wives? 565. Of which people was Fredegund queen? 566. Who was the most famous member of the ‘Gang of Four’ in China? 567. Who became the first Australian woman premier? 568. Which recently deposed leader said the following: ‘One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasoning sex.’ ? 569. Who became the Premier of Israel in 1969? 570. Renée de France (1510–1575) said: ‘Had I a beard I would have been the King of France.’ Why couldn’t she be Queen of France? 571. To which torturers did Maria Cazalla say the following: ‘Why do you need to torture me? I have told the truth and can say no more. ’ and, ‘You do this to a woman? I dread more the affront than the pain.’ 572. Who taught Gandhi everything he knew about civil disobedience? 573. Born in Holland as Gertrude Zelle, she was later accused by the French government of aiding the Germans and executed. By what name was she best known? 574. Who was the first New Zealand woman to be Minister of Finance? 575. Who was the first Australian woman to be appointed to the Cabinet? 576. How many women Supreme Court Judges are there in Australia in 1991? 577. What did the following headline on 1 January, 1975 herald? $2 MILLION FOR THE SHEILAS – SURPRISINGLY IT’S NO JOKE. 578. Who was appointed as Special Adviser to Gough Whitlam on Women’s Affairs in 1973? 579. Who resigned her membership of the US organization, Daughters of the Revolution when Black contralto, Marian Anderson was denied permission to perform at Constitution Hall? 66

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580. Who wrote the first sociology textbook? 581. Who wrote: ‘Alas, a woman that attempts the pen / Such an intruder on the rights of men.’ ? 582. Complete the famous graffiti: ‘Boys will be boys, but girls will be . . . ? 583. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote the following in which poem: ‘Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, / By reiteration chiefly . . .’ ? 584. Who said: ‘. . . a woman must have a room of her own if she is to write fiction.’ ? 585. Boosey and Hawkes, publishers of music, lost interest in 1945 when they discovered that the composer of Concerto for String Orchestra was a woman. Amongst other important works she composed music for poems by Judith Wright, called Six Australian Songs and an opera based on the life of Daisy Bates, The Young Kabbarli. She was largely responsible for securing the site for the present Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne. What is her name? 586. The tenth century Japanese poet, Sei Shonagon, made lists of things she liked and things she disliked. The poetic form she invented still bears the name of her book. Here is an example that expresses sentiments of many modern-day women in numerous fields of work: ‘Very Tiresome Things: When a poem of one’s own, that one has allowed someone else to use as his, is singled out for praise.’ What was the name of her book of poems? 587. Famous for her love letters, a medieval Frenchwoman wrote the following lines to her lover: ‘Only tell me, if you can, why, since the retirement from the world which you yourself enjoined upon me, you have neglected me. Tell me, I say, or I will say what I think, and what is on everybody’s lips. Ah! it was lust rather than love which attracted you to me. . .’ Who wrote these lines? 588. Which Frenchwoman said: ‘Genius has no sex!’? 589. In the first decade of this century my name was a household word in the USA. I was known as the ‘Queen of Anarchists’, ‘Most Dangerous Woman in the World’, ‘Red Emma’. In 1917 I was deported to Russia. Today’s feminists use one of my slogans on their T-Shirts, ‘If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution’. What is my name? 67

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590. I aroused (and still do) powerful positive and negative emotional responses in other people. I was friends with Havelock Ellis, Eleanor Marx and Edward Carpenter, had lots of energy (some called it neurotic and ‘frenetic manner of talking’), and always spoke my mind. Not for me any Victorian deference to men: I shouted them down, sneered at them, interrupted them and mocked them. I was born in South Africa to missionary parents, in 1855. I travelled widely and was one of the first internationally networking feminists. I lived my politics as well as wrote and spoke them and was passionately committed to ‘new women’ and the ‘new life’. The Story of An African Farm is what most people know. The story of who I really was still needs to be written. What is my name? 591. Famous for her contribution to Marxist philosophy and to her critique of Fascism, who wrote the following: ‘Wars and revolutions. . . have outlived all their ideological justifications. . . No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.’ ? 592. Nguyen Thi Binh said in 1975: ‘I was tortured [in the 1950s] by the Vietnamese, with the French directing, just as now it is with the Americans directing.’ What government position did she hold? 593. Who wrote: ‘And if the white man thought that Asians were a low, filthy nation, Asians could still smile – at least they were not Africans. And if the white man thought that Africans were a low, filthy nation, Africans in Southern Africa could still smile – at least they were not bushmen. They all have their monsters.’ ? 594. Which novelist from Ghana wrote the following: ‘Awards / What / Dainty name to describe / This / Most merciless / Most formalised / Open, / Thorough, / Spy system of all time / For a few pennies now and a / Doctoral degree later, / Tell us about / Your people / Your history / Your mind’? 595. La-Neeta Harris was thirteen years old and at school in New York state when she wrote a manifesto called ‘Black Women in Junior High School’. In what year did she write it? 596. Which US ex-Furies member now active in international feminism wrote: ‘Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of ‘women’s issues.’ ? 597. What political action did the following women all engage in: 68

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Madame Tinubu of Nigeria; Nandi of the Zulu people; Kaipkire of the Herero people of South West Africa; and the female army that followed the Dahomian King, Behanzin Bowelle? 598. In what year did the first black model appear on the cover of Vogue? 599. Who wrote ‘Goodbye to All That’ first published in Rat in 1970 and then in Sisterhood is Powerful. 600. The first contemporary Women’s Studies course is said to have taken place at Cornell University (USA) in 1968. But more than thirty years ago – 1934 – another woman in the US wrote a fifty-page pamphlet entitled ‘A Changing Political Economy as it Affects Women’ which was a detailed syllabus for a Women’s Studies course and must be credited with being the first of its kind. In 1941 the same author wrote a forty-page feminist critique of the Encyclopedia Britannica (financed by the Encyclopedia itself). In 1946 she published Woman as A Force in History. In all her writing she asserted that women have always been a very real but highly neglected force in society. She never received the credit she was due. In 1977 Ann J. Lane republished some of her work in a source-book. What is her name? 601. What was the name of the US author who wrote a book on women’s oppression particularly pertinent to married women in the early days of the second wave of contemporary feminism this century and entitled her first Chapter ‘The problem that has no name’? When did she write the book and what was its title? 602. Who was the woman who said when she was asked in a discussion on sexist language what she thought about manholes: ‘There should be more of them!’? 603. Complete the graffiti response to: If it [a car] were a lady, it would get its bottom pinched. 604. Who wrote in 1973: ‘I never said I was a dyke even to a dyke because there wasn’t a dyke in the land who thought she should be a dyke or even thought she was a dyke so how could we talk about it’? 605. Yoko Ono wrote the following in which book: ‘I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will . . . If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.’ ? 606. Which important early work of feminist theory of the late 60s 69

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analysed the work of Norman Mailer, Jean Genêt, D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller? 607. ‘Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore, and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.’ In which manifesto did this appear? 608. When did Sarah Moore Grimké write the following: ‘I ask no favours for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will will take their feet off our necks.’ ? 609. Maggie Kuhn (US) said: ‘I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction – I’ve worked hard for them.’ Which organization did she found? 610. In Australia there is an annual 10/40 conference. What does 10/40 stand for? 611. What is the original meaning of the suffix –ix in words such as: obstetrix, creatrix, matrix, executrix? 612. When was the word ‘Chairperson’ first used in legislation in Australia? 613. What is the origin of the word ‘trivia’? 614. Who wrote the famous words: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.’ ? 615. ‘I don’t know what a feminist is but I know people call me that whenever I express an opinion that differentiates me from a doormat.’ Who said this? 616. Which writer put forward this theory on the emergence of British women writers after the First World War? ‘. . . the men were dead, you see, and the women didn’t marry so much because there was no one for them to marry, and so they had leisure, and, I think, in a good many cases money – because their blokes were dead, and all this would lead to writing wouldn’t it, being single and having some money and having the time – having no men, you see.’ 617. Name one of the three French feminists who Elizabeth Grosz writes about in Sexual Subversions. 70

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618. Singer, Judy Small is known for her folk songs with a political bent. One of her songs, ‘When the Party’s Over’, looks at Australian white oppression of Aborigines. Complete its refrain: 619. Which Australian poet, also known as an active conservationist, attacks Australia’s history of crimes against the Aborigines and the land in her work? 620. Who wrote the classic feminist works: The Second Sex and The First Sex? 621. Who went way Beyond God the Father ? 622. Which US woman writer started her feminist life as a married Mormon? 623. In which year was the first test-tube baby born? 624. What is the failure rate for women on IVF programs? 625. The Australian film On Guard, made by Sarah Gibson and Susan Lambert dealt with what feminist issue? 626. Queenslander, Jackie McKimmie was writer and director of a film about surrogacy. What is the film’s name? 627. Who wrote The Dialectic of Sex? 628. What did African-American dancer, Janet Collins, refuse to do when offered a conditional position with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo? 629. The writing’s on the wall – finish the graffiti: ‘It begins with sinking into his arms and ends with . . . ? 630. Which feminist magazine, first published in 1972, changed its subtitle in 1977 from A Women’s Studies Journal to A Journal of Radical Feminist Thought. The title of the journal has its roots in a chant the convict women invented. The journal is celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 1992. 631. The Australian journal Scarlet Woman focuses on what kind of feminist thought? 632. How many female Professors of Law had been appointed in Australia by August 1991? 71

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633. What is the graffiti writer’s response to: ‘Renew his interest in carpentry?’ 634. How were athletes and coaches sex tested after 440 BC to ensure women were kept out? 635. Why were women made to cover their hair in church? 636. What Australian organization uses the abbreviation WWWW? 637. Which Australian poet was taken to court by her ex-husband because of a poem? 638. Which book by Amanda Lohrey was banned? 639. Who wrote the following, and in which of her books? ‘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.’ 640. Who uttered the immortal words: ‘Thank God for Dale Spender.’ ? 641. In which years have women’s organizations intervened in Basic Wage Cases, Equal Pay Cases, Minimum Wage Cases, and/or National Wage Cases before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and its precursors?

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512. Germany.

husband. Although outlawed in India where the practice most frequently occurred, there are still reports of this happening.

513. Hedwig Dohm (1933–1919).

527. 1936.

514. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797– 1883).

528. 1983.

510. Ella Simon (1902–1981). 511. Because she was Jewish.

515. Honnamma (1665–1699). 516. Dale Spender. 517. Gertrude Stein in Everyone’s Autobiography. 518. The kidnapping and separation of Aboriginal children from their mothers. 519. She was fighting to stop her children being taken, as she had been, to be brought up ‘white’.

529. They were executed by the Islamic Revolutionary Court. 530. Angela Davis in The Black Scholar, 1971. 531. Germaine Greer in The Female Eunuch, 1971. 532. Women. 533. Susan Brownmiller. 534. Lynching.

522. Susan Brownmiller, in Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, published in 1975.

535. Prostitutes (in garrison towns prostitutes were required to subject themselves to compulsory physical examination and treatment for disease, while no such requirement was placed on their clients – men).

523. A woman is raped.

536. Eire (Republic of Ireland).

524. Wife rape is not acknowledged as a crime.

537. Florynce R. Kennedy (1916–).

520. Käthe Kollwitz. 521. Merata Meta.

525. Cutting of clitoris, labia minora and part of the labia majora. Most of the vaginal opening is then stitched together. Although most frequently practised in Africa and the Middle East, it also occurs in the West. 526. When a widowed Hindu woman, whether by physical force or peer pressure, burns to death on the pyre of her

538. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. 539. Sheila Jeffreys. 540. Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. 541. All are cause for accusations of witchcraft. 542. A mole, wen, any part of the body that did not bleed when pricked (possibly caused by a build up of scar tissue), any

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peculiarity of the genital (as defined by the witch hunters), any puckering of skin. 543. The Black Panther Party. 544. Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell. WITCH formed in 1967. 545. Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898). 546. NZ in 1893. 547. Vida Goldstein (1869–1949). 548. Ethel Smyth. 549. New Zealand Australia Finland Germany Russia Canada USA UK France Japan Argentina Egypt Afghanistan Switzerland South Africa

1893 1902 1906 1914 1917 1918 1920 1928 1944 1945 1947 1956 1965 1991 ????

for the first time as workers. 558. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935). 559. Marilyn Waring, Counting for Nothing. 560. Muriel Heagney, 1885–1974. 561. Gloria Steinem in 1974. 562. Beatrice Webb. 563. The history of women and work in Australia. 564. Mary Wollstonecraft in Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792. 565. The Frankish people; she died in 597 AD. 566. Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch’ing). 567. Carmen Lawrence. 568. Margaret Thatcher. 569. Golda Meir. 570. Salic law (derived from a 5th century Frankish code) prevented women from succeeding to the throne. 571. The Inquisition.

550. The vote.

572. Christabel Pankhurst.

551. The right to vote.

573. Mata Hari.

552. The vote was achieved in 1920 – sixty-five years!

574. Ruth Richardson.

553. Caroline Norton. 554. The husband.

575. Susan Ryan. 576. One. Justice Jane Matthews.

555. Virginia Woolf, from ‘Lady Dorothy Nevill’, The Common Reader, 1925.

577. The money was allocated by the Whitlam Government for the International Women’s Year program.

556. Clara Zetkin.

578. Elizabeth Reid.

557. Housewives were included

579. Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1939.

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Ideology run you down’?’ 604. Jill Johnston in Lesbian Nation. 605. Grapefruit, published in 1970. 606. Sexual Politics by Kate Millet, published in 1969. 607. SCUM Manifesto, 1967–1968 by Valerie Solarnas. 608. 1837 in a letter to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. 609. Gray Panthers. 610. Women who are over forty years of age who have been members of the women’s movement for ten or more years. 611. It indicated that the person was female – one can deduce from the prior existence of such words to their masculine counterpart (creator, for example) that these were originally roles undertaken by women. 612. 1984 – in the Law Reform Commission Act.

598. 1987.

613. It refers to the three (tri-) ways (via) or crossroads sacred to goddesses such as Hecate Trevia. These were meeting places where people met to gossip and pass on information and news. Trivia is therefore important knowledge.

599. Robin Morgan.

614. Simone de Beauvoir.

600. Mary Ritter Baerd (1876–1958).

615. Rebecca West.

601. Betty Friedan, 1963, The Feminine Mystique.

616. Ivy Compton-Burnett.

602. Dale Spender.

617. Julia Kristeva/Luce Irigaray/Michele Le Doeuff.

595. 1970. 596. Charlotte Bunch. 597. They all resisted the European slave trade.

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Answers women were ordered by St Paul to cover their heads when praying or prophesying.

620. Simone de Beauvoir, Elizabeth Gould Davis.

636. Women Who Want to be Women – an anti-feminist organization.

621. Mary Daly.

637. Dorothy Hewett.

622. Sonia Johnson.

638. The Reading Group.

623. 1978, Louise Brown in England.

639. Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own.

624. 90–95 per cent.

640. Jeanette Winterson.

625. Reproductive technology.

641. 1949–50, Basic Wage Case – Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women (AFPBW) and National Council of Women (NCW). 1969, National Wage Case/Equal Wage Case – the Union of Australian Women (UAW) and the Australian Federation of Women Voters. 1972, National Wage Case/Equal Pay Case – NCW, UAW, and the Women’s Liberation Movement. 1974, Equal Pay Case/Minimum Wage Case – UAW, NCW, Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL). 1983, National Wage Case – UAW, NCW, WEL. 1988, National Wage Case – National Pay Equity Coalition. 1990–91, National Wage Case – AFPBW.

626. Waiting. 627. Shulamith Firestone 628. She refused to wear white make-up to lighten her skin. 629. ‘Your arms in the sink.’ 630. Refractory Girl. 631. Socialist feminist. 632. Seven. Prof. Enid Campbell, Monash University; Prof. Alice Eh Soon Tay, University of Sydney; Prof. Maureen Brunt, Monash University; Prof. Marcia Neave, Adelaide University; Prof. Helen Gamble, Wollongong University; Prof. Cheryl Saunders, Melbourne University; Prof. Margaret Thornton, Department of Legal Studies, La Trobe University. 633. ‘Saw his head off.’ 634. They had to register naked. 635. Hair was magically associated with the spirit world and unbinding the hair could raise storms and control the spirit world. In order to prevent this

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658. Who directed Dark Times? 659. Who made the film, Olympische Spiele (Triumph of Will) about the Nazi Games in Berlin in 1936? 660. Which race did Debbie Flintoff win at the 1988 Olympics? 661. In which sport did Australia win the inaugural world championship in 1965? 662. Who won the most Olympic Gold Medals of any Australian in a single Olympic Games? 663. Who is the only female competitor to win gold medals in the same event in three successive Olympic Games? 664. Who said:‘ People think of me as the incredible hulk.’? 665. For which sport is Fatima Whitbread famous? 666. Who was the tallest and heaviest woman to be an Olympic champion? 667. Which countries entered women in their shooting teams in the 1964 Olympics? 668. Who is the youngest medalist of either sex in the shooting events? 669. Who is the youngest archery Olympic Champion? 670. Ilona Elek of Hungary competed in the fencing events in 1936 and 1948. How many wins did she have in the two Olympics? 671. Who sings the songs ‘Lola’ and ‘Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt’ in the film The Blue Angel? 672. What do Iva Smith, Memphis Minnie, Lil Johnson, St Louis Bessie, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday have in common? 673. Who made ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ famous? 674. Who wants to drive in an open sportscar through the streets of Paris with the wind blowing her hair? 675. Match the following jumbled jazz musicians with their instrument:

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vibes harp violin accordion tenor sax trumpet alto sax ukulele keyboards organ bass drums trombone reeds alto sax flute

676. Who won the first gold medal in the Standard Rifle event in 1984? 677. In 1902 a British woman, Madgs Syers entered the world championships in an event supposedly only for men and was placed second. In which sport was this? 678. Ludmila Khvedosyuk Pinayeva has won three gold medals in which sport? 679. Who is the only competitor to score a ‘perfect’ score in gymnastics? 680. Who invented what is labeled as ‘killer gymnastics’? 681. Who wrote ‘Ode to a Gym Teacher’? 682. On which record by Joan Armatrading does the song ‘Willow’ appear? 683. ‘Good evening. This is your Captain. / We are about to attempt a crash landing.’ Who wrote and sings these lines? 684. Who wrote Pack of Women? 685. The musical Pack of Women centres around what game? 686. Which Australian directed Fourteen’s Good, Eighteen’s Better, High Tide and My Brilliant Career?

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687. Who played Sybylla Melvyn in the film of Miles Franklin’s novel, My Brilliant Career? 688. Who was the producer of Eden’s Lost and For Love Alone? 689. ‘Last night I heard the screaming / Loud voices behind the wall / Another sleepless night for me / It won’t do no good to call / The police / Always come late / If they come at all’ Who wrote and sings these lines? 690. In which collection of Sylvia Plath’s poetry do the following lines appear: ‘A living doll, everywhere you look. / It can sew, it can cook, / It can talk, talk, talk. / It works, there is nothing wrong with it. / You have a hole, it’s a poultice. / You have an eye, it’s an image. / My boy, it’s your last resort. / Will you marry it, marry it, marry it’? 691. Which American opera singer said the following: ‘The thing to do [for insomnia] is to get a opera score and read that. That will bore you to death.’? 692. Which opera singer is known by the title La Stupenda? 693. There are two famous Flower Duets for two female voices. In which operas do they occur? 694. What is the title of Sinéad O’Connor’s first recording? 695. Patty, LaVerne and Maxine are sisters. By what name are they known on their recordings? 696. What was special about the 1984 100m freestyle? 697. Which sport had its debut at the Olympics in 1988 and had never been at the Olympics before, even as a demonstration? 698. Frances Clytie Rivett-Carnac was the first woman to win an event not restricted to women or mixed pairs in any sport. What did she win? 699. Who was the first mother to run an Olympic race? 700. What were Soviet runner Irina Nazarova and Soviet discus medalist, Elizabeta Bagriantseva famous for? 701. Who won the first women’s marathon?

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702. Which New Zealand leading middle-distance runner is an Olympic Gold Medallist, was also USA Runner of the Year in 1982, and won 108 out of 120 races? 703. Of the fourteen possible gold medals in track and field and swimming, how many did East Germany win in 1976? 704. What distinguishes the childhood of Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter, from other athletes? 705. Who was the first athlete to win the 200m and 400m race at a single Olympics? 706. Which famous swimmer said: ‘I hated the easy assumption that girls had to be slower than boys.’ 707. Who was the first Black woman to win an Olympic throwing event? 708. For what sport is Norwegian Grete Waitz famous? 709. Who is the only runner in the world to hold, simultaneously, the 5,000m, 10,000m, 15,000m, half-marathon and marathon world records? 710. Who was the first Black American to play tennis at the US Open (1950) and Wimbledon (1951)? 711. Who jumped seventeen fences when concussed? 712. What is so special about Princess Smartypants? 713. Who is Miss Fanshawe? 714. History is being made. The world champion is a woman. Who was this said of in 1986? 715. Who is the oldest-ever woman to compete in the Olympics? 716. ‘Some say an army on horseback, / some an army on foot, / still others say a fleet of ships remains / the most beautiful sight in / this dark world; / but I say it is / the one you love.’ Who wrote this? 717. Who wrote: ‘An army of lovers shall not fail.’ 718. The Beverley Malibu is to Amateur City and Murder at the Nightwood Bar as A Captive in Time is to … ?

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719. What are the two things Kaz Cooke highly recommends for cheering yourself up? 720. What Comes Naturally? 721. Who is the tenth muse? 722. What did the Troubadour women Alais, Carenza and Iselda do together? 723. Which renaissance French poet wrote the following: ‘Kiss me again, rekiss me, kiss me more, / give me your most consuming tasty one, / give me your sensual kiss, a savory one, / I’ll give you back four burning at the core.’? 724. She is known for her collected letters, Staying on Alone, for typing and editing Gertrude Stein’s manuscripts with whom she lived for nearly forty years, and for her cookbook. What is the name of her cookbook? 725. Who wrote the song from 1965 called ‘White Rabbit’ in which occur the lines: ‘Remember what the doormouse said: / ‘Feed your head. / Feed your head. / Feed your head.’ ? 726. Who wrote for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf? 727. I have lived in many countries including France, Italy, Greece, Egypt and India which I have written about in numerous books. My contribution to the field of cookery and wine has been recognized by awards in Britain and France including an OBE, an honorary doctorate of the University of Essex, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a CBE. My books include Mediterranean Food, French Provincial Cooking and An Omelette and a Glass of Wine. Who am I? 728. Which South Australian winemaker started Marienberg wines? 729. What famous Australian gardener promoted roadside conservation? 730. What is the name of Vita Sackville-West’s country home and famous garden? 731. Which European ruler of the 18th century, known for her

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correspondence with Voltaire, was a leading patron of the arts and gardening? 732. What kind of garment is a frou-frou? 733. One of the first film producers in Australia, with husband Charles she worked on numerous films as assistant director, co-writer, associate producer, dialogue director, and once in an acting role. She co-produced Jedda and a cinema in Sydney bears their name. What is her name? 734. Alma de Groen wrote the script for the telefeature Man of Letters. Who wrote the novel? 735. Jessica Anderson and Thea Astley have won which prestigious Australian literary award more than once? 736. Who was the presenter of The Big Gig? 737. Who said: ‘Where would we be without the movies?’ 738. Eva Jessye was the Choral director for which famous Gershwin opera? 739. What new elements did Katherine Dunham introduce into modem dance in the 30s? 740. What is the characteristic of traditional Yoruba plaiting worn by the High Priestess of the River Goddess? 741. Which black South African singer made the record Pata Pata? 742. ‘Sweet Honey in the Rock’ are described as what kind of group? 743. Which Irish musician wrote the music for the BBC TV series, The Celts? 744. Who sings ‘Hymn to Her’? 745. The photographers Lucia Moholy and Lotte Beese were associated with which art school in Weimar? 746. Jan Groover is known for what kind of photography? 747. Who are Somerville and Ross? 748. Natalia Goncharova worked with Sergei Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsksy in what kind of work?

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749. The Alyawarre and Anmatyerre women from Utopia in Central Australia are particularly well known for what kind of art work? 750. What do Ethel Spowers, A.M.E. Bale, Clara Southern, Vida Lahey, Thea Proctor, Grace Cossington-Smith, Margaret Bevan and Dora Searle have in common? 751. WHEN RACISM & SEXISM ARE NO LONGER FASHIONABLE, WHAT WILL YOUR ART COLLECTION BE WORTH? The art market won’t bestow mega-buck prices on the work of a few white males forever. For the 17.7 million you just spent on a single Jasper Johns painting you could have bought at least one work by all these women and artists of color: Bernice Abbott Annie Albers Sofonisba Anguisolla Diane Arbus Vanessa Bell Isabel Bishop Rosa Bonheur Elizabeth Bougereau Margaret Bourke-White Romaine Brooks Julia Margaret Cameron Emily Carr Rosalba Carriera Mary Cassatt Constance Marie Charpentier Imogen Cunningham Sonia Delauney Elaine de Kooning Lavinia Fontana Meta Warwick Fuller Artemesia Gentileschi Marguérite Gérard Natalia Goncharova Kate Greenaway Barbara Hepworth Eva Hesse Hannah Hoch Anna Huntingdon May Howard Jackson Frida Kahlo Angelica Kauffmann Hilma af Klimt Käthe Kollwitz Lee Krasner Dorothea Lange Marie Laurencin Edmonia Lewis Judith Leyster Barbara Longhi Dora Maar Lee Miller Lisette Model Paula Modersohn-Becker Tina Modotti Berthe Morisot Grandma Moses Gabriele Münter Alice Neel Louise Nevelson Georgia O’Keefe Meret Oppenheim Sarah Peale Ljubova Popova Olga Rosanova Nellie Mae Rowe Rachel Ruysch Kay Sage Auggsta Savage Vavara Stepenova Florine Stettheimer Sophie Taeuber-Arp Alma Thomas Marietta Robusti Tintoretto Suzanne Valadon Remedios Varo Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun Laura Wheeling Waring. Which organization wrote the above manifesto? 752. Who created the Fairy Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne? 753. What Japanese poetic form is the following poem by Kawai? Chigetsu-Ni (1632–1736): ‘Grasshoppers / Chirping in the sleeves / Of a scarecrow.’

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754. American artist living in London, Mary Kelly documented the growth and development of her new-born son. It was produced between 1973 and 1979. What is the name of this work? 755. Ezra Pound in The Pisan Cantos mentions Yeats, Beardsley, Ford, William, Eliot, Joyce, Symonds, Hulme, Lewis, Hemingway and Antheil, but he does not mention D. Marsden, H. Monroe, H. Weaver, M. Moore, A. Lowell, M. Loy, S. Beach, H. Doolittle or D. Richardson. What are the first names of those in the second group? 756. Who invented stream-of-consciousness writing in her novel, Pilgrimage ? 757. What is the real name of the poet known as ‘The Matchless Orinda? 758. Who wrote the famous Scottish song to Charles Edward Stewart, (a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie and The Young Pretender) that begins: ‘O, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier.’ ? 759. In which novel did Jane Austen write: ‘An annuity is a very serious business.’? 760. Which of the world’s great better writers and figure in 17th century French society and literary circles, made the following observation: ‘Luck is always on the side of the big battalions,’ 761. Amy Mary Beach made her debut in 1885 and she created a work called The Chambered Nautilus. In which art form did she work? 762. The Jesse Tree is a Masque written by Anne Ridler and first performed in 1970. Who wrote the music for the work? 763. Priaulx Rainier was born in South Africa and some of her music draws on Zulu rhythms and melodies. She studied with Nadia Boulanger briefly in 1939. She was a close friend of artist, Barbara Hepworth. Her work The Bee Oracles honoured which experimental English poet? 764. What is the name of the only woman Troubadour (Trobairitz) whose music has survived to the present day?

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765. The Australian contemporary composer Ros Bandt has invented a percussion instrument called a flagone. What is this instrument made from? 766. Caroline Newcombe (1812–1874) and Anne Drysdale (1792– 1853) were responsible for setting up what kind of business? 767. Name the two sequels to Seven Little Australians. 768. What is the name of the children’s book Louisa Lawson wrote? 769. What is unusual about the character Nosy Alf in Joseph Furphy’s Australian novel Such is Life? 770. In which of her books did Emma Goldman (1869–1940) write: ‘As to the eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values – especially the moral ones – coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.’ ? 771. Who wrote: ‘If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure of getting out of it …’ ? 772. What domestic activity was Tillie Olsen writing about in the story that contains these lines: ‘And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?’ 773. Which film star said: ‘I always wear slacks because of the brambles and maybe the snakes. And see this basket? I keep everything in it. So I look ghastly do I? I don’t care – so long as I’m comfortable?. 774. About whom was Dorothy Parker writing in this review: ‘She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.’? 775. Ann Ronell, songwriter, composer and orchestra conductor and the first woman to conduct and compose for film, is famous for her work with which American movie company that specializes in works for children? 776. Who said: ‘Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was I found spirit in the air…’? 777. Which US fiction writer, pacifist and anti-Vietnam activist wrote: ‘I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.’?

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778. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird? 779. What was the title of Shirley MacLaine’s autobiography published in 1970? 780. Who said: ‘I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.’? 781. In what way was Hungarian chess player, Judith Polgar, wonderful? 782. Who wrote: ‘… a woman is talking to death …’? 783. ‘And I will speak less and less to you / And more and more in crazy gibberish you cannot understand: / witches’ incantations, poetry, old women’s mutterings …’ Who wrote these lines? 784. Who searched for her mother’s garden and found her own? 785. In which novel did Christina Stead write: ‘… the waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life … I’ll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.’? 786. Known for her ascerbic wit, she was a formidable critic for The New Yorker and other magazines. In 1922 she wrote: ‘The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.’ ? 787. Who sang the hit song, ‘I Am Woman? 788. Which Australian singer and performer starred in the musical, Piaf? She has also produced the records, Free Fall through Featherless Flight and looking Backwards to Tomorrow. 789. Kay Gardner, composer and accompanist to Alix Dobkin on Lavender Jane Loves Women, plays what instrument? 790. Who says: ‘Ain’t Life a Brook?’ 791. What does Kathleen Battle sing? 792. Mitsuko Uchida is known for her inspired performances of which composer’s work for piano? 793. German woodwind player, Sabine Meyer, plays what instrument?

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794. Who wrote ‘A rose is a rose is a rose’? 795. Peggy Guggenheim is associated as a patron with which art form? 796. A collaboration between a writer and an artist produced the book Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth. Who were the collaborators? 797. What is the name of the central character in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple? 798. What is the English (original) title of Merlin Stone’s book When God Was a Woman? 799. What is the subtitle of Sue Ingleton’s Almaniac? 800. Who directed the film Sweetie? 801. What is the name of the only Australian magazine to review women’s books? 802. What is the only national festival for writers held in Australia every two years? The festival promotes women’s writing. 803. What are the two US magazines that review women’s books called? 804. What is the name of the central female character in W uthering Heights? 805. Madame Becl appears in which of Charlotte Brontë’s novels? 806. Dorothy Sayers is known for three very different kinds of writing, What are they? 807. In which Dorothy Sayers’ novel does the character Catherine Bendick appear? 808. In which multimedia artform have the following women worked? Yoko Ono, Mary Beth Edelson, Carolee Schneemann, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Betsy Damon, Yvonne Rainer, Jill Orr.

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642. Golfing greens throughout England were carved with the slogan ‘no votes, no golf’.

659. Leni Riefenstahl.

643. Margaret Abbott, USA, 1904 (it was discontinued after that).

661. Softball.

644. Polo. 645. Princess Anne. 646. Her horses won the chariot race. 647. Jacki Joyner-Kersee. Events included in a heptathlon are; 100metres hurdles, high jump, shot, 200metres sprint on day one; and on day two, the long jump, javelin and 800 metres. 648. Betty Cuthbert (she won 100m, 200m sprint and relay in 1956; and in 1964 won 400m). 649. Squash.

660. 400m hurdle.

662. Shane Gould, 1972, 200m, 400m, 200m individual medley in swimming. 663. Dawn Fraser, in 1956, 1960 and 1964 in 100m freestyle. 664. Fatima Whitbread, UK. 665. Javelin. 666. Iuliana Semenova, the Soviet team captain in basketball at 7 feet 1¾ inches tall and 284 lbs. 667. Mexico, Peru and Poland. 668. Ulrike Holmer, a sixteen-yearold West German, who won silver in 1984.

650. Nine.

669. Seo Hyang-Soon, seventeenyear-old Korean woman.

651. Evonne Goolagong.

670. Twelve in Individual Foil.

652. The bicycle.

671. Marlene Dietrich.

653. Amelia Jenks Bloomer.

672. They all sang the Blues.

654. Elsa Schiaparelli.

673. Janis Joplin.

655. Rei Kawakubo.

674. Lucy Jordan.

656. Marguerite Duras.

675. Janice Robinson – trombone (also leader / composer, 70s)

657. Marlene Gorris. 658. Margarethe von Trotta.

Willene Barton – alto sax (also leader, 50s)

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Sport and Culture Carla Bley – keyboards (also sax, 60s) Vi Redd – alto sax (also soprano sax/ vocals/leader, 60s) Corky Hale – flute (also harp/ piano/organ/piccolo/cello, 50s) June Rotenberg – bass, 40s Dorothy Ashby – harp (also piano/composer, 50s) Peggy Gilbert – vibes (also reeds/ vocals/leader, 20s) Bridget O’Flynn – drums, 40s Audrey Hall Petroff – violin (also reeds/piano/leader, 20s) Sarah McLawler – organ (also piano/vocals, 40s) Irma Young – ukulele (also alto sax/B-flat soprano sax/ baritone sax/ tap dancer, 20s) Doris Peavey – accordion (also piano/organ, 20s) Betty Sattley Leeds – tenor sax, 30s Ann Patterson – reeds (also leader, 70s) Estelle Slavin – trumpet (also leader, 30s)

Answers 688. Margaret Fink. 689. Tracy Chapman. 690. Ariel. The poem is ‘The Applicant’ and the book was published in 1966. 691. Marilyn Horne. 692. Joan Sutherland. 693. Lakmé and Madame Butterfly. 694. The Lion and the Cobra. 695. Andrews Sisters. 696. The winners tied, they were Carrie Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead, both from the USA. 697. Table tennis. 698. Yachting. 699. Fanny Blankers-Koen. 700. Irina was the daughter of Elizabeta. 701. Joan Benoit in 1984.

676. Xiaoxuan of China.

702. Anne Audain.

677. Skating.

703. Nine in track and field; eleven in swimming.

678. Canoeing. 679. Nadia Comaneci. 680. Olga Korbut. 681. Meg Christian. 682. Show Some Emotion. 683. Laurie Anderson.

704. She wore a leg brace as a child and went on to win three gold medals. 705. Valerie Briscoe-Hooks, at Los Angeles 1984. 706. Dawn Fraser.

684. Robyn Archer.

707. Tessa Sanderson from Britain in 1984.

685. Cards.

708. Marathon running.

686. Gillian Armstrong.

709. Ingrid Kristiansen from Norway.

687. Judy Davis.

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710. Althea Gibson.

723. Louise Labé (1524/25–1566)

711. Princess Anne.

724. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.

712. She doesn’t want to get married, and she outwits all the princes who try for her hand.

725. Grace Slick.

713. She is a Victorian lady traveller who specializes in great adventures. In Miss Fanshawe and the Great Dragon Adventure she sets off to find a dragon, catches it, then releases it to make it happy.

727. Elizabeth David.

714. Gail Greenough who won the 1986 world showjumping championship. 715. Seventy-year-old, British equestrian Lorna Johnstone. 716. Sappho. 717. Rita Mae Brown in ‘Sappho’s Reply’ in the collection The Hand That Cradles the Rock, 1971. 718. Stoner McTavish Something Shady.

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719. Buying yourself a pair of red shoes / buying yourself a lemon daquiri. 720. Lesbian relationships and all their ups and downs. The title of a novel by Norwegian writer, Gerd Brandenberg. 721. Sappho (Some say nine Muses – but count again, Behold the tenth: Sappho of Lesbos, Plato). 722. They wrote poetry together. An example from one verse is: ‘… shall I stay unwed? That would please me, / for making babies doesn’t seem so good, / and it’s too anguishing to be a wife.’

726. Ntozake Shange

728. Ursula Pridham. 729. Edna Walling. 730. Sissinghurst. 731. Catherine the Great of Russia. 732. A long, usually silk, dress, sometimes extravagantly ornamented with lace trimmings and which rustles when the wearer moves, making a sound like froufrou. 733. Elsa Chauvel. 734. Glen Tomasetti. 735. The Miles Franklin Award. 736. Wendy Harmer. 737. Nancy Reagan in a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor. 738. Porgy and Bess. 739. African and Caribbean traditions. 740. Her plaits come up from the hairline to form a ponytail at the crown of her head. 741. Miriam Makeba. 742. A Cappella Choir. 743. Enya. 744. Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. 745. Bauhaus.

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Sport and Culture 746. Still life or domestic objects. 747. Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, Irish novelists, cousins and lovers they wrote fourteen works together including The Real Charlotte (1894) and Some Experiences of an Irish RM (1899). 748. Stage and costume design for Le coq d’or (1914), Les noces (1923), The Firebird (1926). 749. Traditional motifs using batik on silk. 750. They are all Australian artists and are depicted on the covers of the Penguin Australian Women’s Library. 751. Guerrilla Girls 752. Ola Cohn. 753. Haiku. 754. Post Partum Document.

Answers 766. They were Australian pastoralists who made a great success of establishing themselves as partners, in spite of social pressures against them. 767. The Family at Misrule / Little Mother Meg. 768. Dert and Do. 769. She’s a woman. 770. The Traffic in Women. 771. Jane Austen in Persuasion. 772. Ironing (the story is called ‘I Stand Here Ironing’, 1954). 773. Katharine Hepburn. 774. Katharine Hepburn. 775. Wait Disney (amongst the things she wrote is, ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’). 776. Amy Johnson, aviatrix (1903– 1941).

755. Dora, Harriet, Harriet, Marianne, Amy, Mina, Sylvia, Hilda, Dorothy.

777. Grace Paley (b. 1922).

756. Dorothy Richardson.

779. Don’t Fall Off the Mountain.

757. Katherine Philips.

780. Marilyn Monroe.

758. Carolina Naime (1766–1845)

781. She is the youngest grandmaster in the history of chess.

759. Sense and Sensibility.

778. [Nellie] Harper Lee.

760. Marie de Sévigné.

782. Judy Grahn, 1974 in the long poem A Woman Is Talking to Death.

761. Music – she was a conceit pianist and composer.

783. Robin Morgan in Monster, 1972.

762. Elizabeth Maconchy. 763. Edith Sitwell.

784. Alice Walker (In search of my mother’s garden I found my own, 1974).

764. Béatrice de Die, Countess of Die.

785. The House of All Nations, 1938.

765. Old wine flagons.

786. Dorothy Parker.

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Answers 787. Helen Reddy. 788. Jeannie Lewis 789. The flute. 790. Ferron. 791. Opera. 792. Mozart. 793. Clarinet. 794. Gertrude Stein. 795. Painting. 796. Robyn Kahukiwa did the paintings and drawings, Patricia Grace wrote the text.

Sport and Culture 799. A Woman’s Guide to Domestic Insanity. 800. Jane Campion. 801. The Australian Women’s Book Review. 802. The Australian Feminist Book Fortnight. 803. Belles Lettres and The Women’s Review of Books. 804 Catherine. 805. Villette. 806. Detective fiction, religious writing and translations of Dantë.

797. Celie.

807. Gaudy Night.

798. The Paradise Papers.

808. Performance art.

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Index Subjects are indexed by question and answer numbers, not to pages. ‘Australia’ has not been used as a main heading, only as a sub-heading. A Dangerous Knowing 272 Abbott, Berenice 457, 751 Abbott, Margaret 643 Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New, An 335 Aboriginal people see Australian Aborigines abortion 9, 536, 537 academia 19, 308, 428, 429, 511, 600, 632 Academie Française 142 Academy of Arts and Sciences (US) 46 Accumulation of Capital, The 282 Ackland, Valentine 298 activists see politicians and politics ADA 8 Adam, Margie 196 Afghanistan 373; suffrage 549 Africa 184, 372 Against Our Will 522 age 466, 475, 609 Agnesi, Maria Gaetana 10 agriculture 51, 371, 431, 432, 434, 766 Ahmose-Nefetere 406 Ahotep 406 Aidoo, Ama Ata 594 airline reservations 58 Al-Lat-Q’re-Ai-Uzza (Manat) 49 Alais 722

Albers, Annie 751 alchemy 141 Alexandria 216 Algeria 122 Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, The 724 Allende, Isabel 418 Almania: A Woman’s Guide to Domestic Insanity 799 Alther, Lisa 347 Amateur City 718 Amazon Acres (NSW) 391 Amazon people 27 Amazon women 390, 392, 394 Ambaphali 475 Ambrose, Helen 297 American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac 46 Amherst, Mass. 458 Ana-Babd-Macha (the Morrigan) 49 Analytical Institutions 10 Anatolia (Turkey) 1 Anchnesmerir 406 Andal 395 Anderson, Alice 147 Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett 153, 154 Anderson, Jessica 735 Anderson, Laurie 683, 808 Anderson, Marion 579 Andrew sisters 695 Angel at My Table 331 Angina 28 Angola 129, 478 Anguisolla, Sofonisba 751 animal behaviour 88 Anne of Green Gables 502 Anne, Princess 645, 711 Anthony, Susan B. 198

anthropology 44 Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinances 540 Aotearoa/New Zealand 212, 213, 214, 332, 336, 418, 421, 559; Maori 521, 796; suffrage 546, 549 Aphrodite 82, 373 ‘Applicant, The’ 690 Approximately Infinite Universe 263 Arachne 103 Arbus, Diane 292, 751 archeology 109, 110 Archer, Robyn 330, 684 architecture 48, 437 ‘Are Women Taking Men’s Jobs?’ 560 Arendt, Hannah 591 Argentina 418; suffrage 549 Ariadne 414 Ariel 690 Armatrading, Joan 682 Armenia 383 Armstrong, Gillian 686 artists and arts 6, 745, 749; American 455, 456; Aotearoa/New Zealand 796; German 520; Italian 222; Japanese 263; Mexican 463; patrons 227, 731, 795; performance 808; sculpture 111; silver and woodcarving 287; woodcuts 69, see also painters and paintings; photographers and photography As a Blackwoman 272 Ashanti people 1, 131 Ashby, Dorothy 675 Aspasia 3

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Index Asquith, Margot 786 assassinations 223, see also murders Astley, Thea 735 astrology 106 astronomy 2, 6, 7, 11, 14, 17, 22, 46, 74, 75, 82, 427 Athena/Athene 6, 51, 60, 103 Atkins, Anna 66 Atkinson, Caroline Louisa 70 Atlas Shrugged 84 Atuan 412 Audain, Anne 702 Aung San, Suu Kyi 474 Aurora Leigh 583 Austen, Jane 330, 353, 759, 771 Australia: citizenship 510; suffrage 549 Australian Aborigines: Aboriginal Women’s Arts Festival 493; activists 256, 257, 334, 618; Alyawarre 749; Anmatyerre 749; artists 357; Australian Aboriginal Fellowship 149; crimes against 619; exemption certificate 510; in fiction 320; kidnapping of children 518, 519; magistrate 148; music 494, 519; mythology 27,108, 373; Nungawarda people 150; Nyungar people 519; plays 493, 518; poets 319, 334; publishers 495; songs 494; strikes 150; tennis champion 651; tribal law 232; woman magistrate 148; writers 233, 335, 356, 495; Wurundjeri people 257; Yorta-Yorta tribe 257 Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women (AFPBW) 641

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Australian Federation of Women Voters 641 Australian Feminist Book Fortnight 802 Australian Women’s Book Review, The 801 Australische Briefe 12 Auto-Portrait (painting) 368 Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The 367 Auvaiyar 395 aviators and flying 507, 776 Ayerton, Herta Marks 23 Aztec people 380 Baerd, Mary Ritter 600 Baghdad 393 Bagnold, Enid 361 Bagriantseva, Elizabeta 700 Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 628 Bale, A. M. E. 750 Bandler, Faith 149 Bandt, Ros 765 Barbados 433 Barnes, Djuna 300, 504 Barney, Natalie 227, 504 Barreno, Maria Isabel 315 Barton, Willene 675 ‘Basic Wage Betrayal, The’ 560 Bastion Point 521 Bates, Daisy 451, 585 Battle, Kathleen 791 Baynton, Barbara 330 Beach, Amy Mary 480, 761 Beach, Sylvia 755 bearded woman 171 Beatrice of Nazareth 95 Beauvoir, Simone de 614, 620 Becl, Madame 805 Bee Oracles, The 763 Beese, Lotte 745 Behn, Aphra 11, 115, 313 Belinda 7 Belkis 120

Bell Jar, The 187, 200 Bell, Vanessa 291, 297, 751, see also Stephen, Vanessa Belles Lettres 803 Bendick, Catherine 807 Benoit, Joan 701 Bernard, Muzka 368 Bertell, Rosalie 67 Between Friends 306 Bevan, Margaret 750 Beverley Malibu, The 718 Beyond God the Father 621 Bible see Scriptures Big Gig, The 736 Bin Bin 451 biology: marine 77 Bird, Isabella 376 Birgitta of Sweden 95 Bishop, Isabel 751 Black Americans 16, 158, 159, 161, 205, 206, 259, 260, 598, 628; in fiction 164; poets 205; politics 158, 514, 530, 534, 543, 595; in sport 710; writers 784, 797 ‘Black Iris’ (painting) 456 black madonnas 13 Black Majority 334 Black Nun 182 Black Panther Party 543 Black Scholar, The 530 ‘Black Women in Junior High School’ 595 Blankers-Koen, Fanny 699 Blau, Lola 330 Blavatsky, Helena 193 Bley, Carla 675 Blixen, Karen 324 Blodeuwedd 373 Bloomer, Amelia Jenks 653 Blue Angel 671 Blue Hills 451 Boadicea (Boudicca) 124 Bocchi (Bucca), Dorothea 428 body 666 Boleyn, Anne 170 bone people, the 332

Index Bonheur, Rosa 751 Bono, Betty de 97 Book of the City of Ladies, The 382 bookshops 422, 423 Borgia, Lucrezia 307 Borroloola 232 botany 10, 12, 66, 70, 72, 73, 93, 541 Botswana 418 Bouboulina 126 Bougereau, Elizabeth 751 Bouhared, Djamila 122 Boulanger, Nadia 337, 763 Boupacha, Djamila 122 Bourke-White, Margaret 63, 751 boycotts 40 Boyle, Kay 504 Bradley, Marion 143 Bradstreet, Anne 276 Brandenberg, Gerd 720 Brazil 418, 432 Bridget, Saint 484 Briefing for a Descent into Hell 415 Briggs, Louisa 256 Brigit 6, 373 Brindabella 451 Bring the Monkey 209 Briscoe-Hicks, Valerie 705 Britain: Ancient 124 Brittain, Vera 294 Broad Arrow, The 207 Broken Mirrors (film) 657 Brontë, Charlotte 805 Brontë, Maria 250 Brontë sisters 487 Brooks, Romaine 751 Brown, Louise 623 Brown, Rita Mae 252, 717 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 224, 583 Brownmiller, Susan 522, 533 Bruce, Mary Grant 145 Brundtland, Gro Harlem 470

Brunt, Professor Maureen 632 Bryan, Margaret 75 Brynhild 400 Buck, Pearl S. 201 Buckland-Baulk, Lady 300 Budd, Zola 501 Bunch, Charlotte 596 Bundaberg 449 Bunn, Anna Maria 151 Burma 123 Burnell, Jocelyn Bell 15 Burney, Fanny 330, 466 Burns, Helen 250 Butler, Lady Eleanor 302 Butler, Josephine 284 Byron, Lady 68 Byzantium 218 Calamity Jane 271 Calcutta 41, 42 Caldicott, Helen 86 Callas, Maria 482 Callirhoe 262 Cameron, Bessy 519 Cameron, Julia Margaret 291, 751 Campbell, Professor Enid 632 Campion, Jane 211, 800 Canada: suffrage 549 Canady, Alexa 16 Candace (of Ethiopia) 130, 173 Captive in Time, A 718 Carenza 722 carpentry 56 Carr, Emily 338, 751 Carriera, Rosalba 751 Carrington, Leonora 316, 460 Carson, Rachel 77 Carter, Frances 543 Carthage 215 Cassandra 83 Cassava Song and Rice Song 371 Castel Sant’Angelo 387 Çatal Hüyük 1 Catalogue of Stars 2 Catchpole, Margaret 275 Catherine the Great of Russia 731

Catherine of Sienna 95, 138 Catherine (Wuthering Heights) 804 Cato, Nancy 451 Cauchy-Kovalevsky theorem 14 Cavell, Nurse Edith 264 Cavendish, Margaret 116 Cazalla, Maria 571 Celie (Color Purple) 797 Celtic people 107, 143 Celts, The 743 Cerridwen 107 chador 527, 528 Chambefort, Marie 64 Chambered Nautilus, The 761 Chamberlain, Lindy 365 Chaminade, Cécile 262, 480 Chan, Melissa 245 ‘Changing Political Economy as it Affects Women, A’ 600 Channing, Grace 558 Chapman, Tracy 689 Charcoal Lane 494 Charing Cross Road 422, 423 Charpentier, Marie 751 Charting the Journey 272 Chattanooga 259 Chauvel, Elsa 733 chemistry 10, 24, 57, 62, 76 chess 781 Chibcha people 1 Chicago, Judy 455 Chicomecoatl 373 Chigetsu-Ni, Kawai 753 childbirth 4 children 431; kidnapping of 518, 519 Chile 418 China 373, 418, 432 Chomo-Lung Ma 372 Christian, Meg 196, 681 Christie, Agatha 326, 424 Christine de Pisan 135, 382 Chuo Wên-chün 235 Cinchon, Countess of 30

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Index circumnavigation 507 civil disobedience 572 civil rights 161, 540, 560 Claflin, Tennessee 278 Clara Morison 146 Cleopatra 172, 236 Clift, Charmian 321 Clouds from Both Sides 375 Coffey, Elsie 233 Cohn, Ola 752 Colette 354, 504 Colinet, Marie 54 Collins, Janet 628 Color Purple, The 797 Comaneci, Nadia 679 Come in Spinner 448 Coming Out Show 333 Common Reader, The 555 Communist Party: German 282 comparison of sexes 239 Compendius System of Astronomy, A 75 competition 104, see also Olympic Games; sports Compton-Burnett, Ivy 616 computers 8, 15, 58, 68 Condé, Maryse 310 conservation: see also environment Constance, Mary Cassatt 751 Constantinople (Istanbul) 424 contraception 9, 38, 89, 183 convents 411; Beguinages 309, 314, see also religious women Conversations on Chemistry 76 Conversations With Cow 305 convicts 207, 275, 630 Cooke, Kaz 719 Coonardoo 320 Copeland, Julie 333 Coranderrk 256 Corunna, Daisy 356

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Cossington-Smith, Grace 750 Cotten, Libba 261 Coughlan, Mary 481 Counting for Nothing 559 courtesans see prostitutes and prostitution Couvreur, Jessie 359 Creae 49 creation 1, 79 Creation of Birds (painting) 316 Crepin, Anne 56 cross-dressing 129, 275, 773 culture 6 Cummerangunja 256, 257 Cunard, Nancy 504 Cunio, Isabella 21 Cunitz, Maria 427 Cunningham, Imogen 751 Curie, Marie 90, 91, 430 Cusack, Dymphna 274, 448 Cut Nyak Dien 128 Cuthbert, Betty 648 Dahia-al Kahina 396 Daly, Mary 545, 621 Damon, Betty 808 dance 739; ballet 262, 628, 748; tap 675 Dardjoun 425 Dark Mother 105 Dark Times 658 Daughters of the American Revolution 579 David, Elizabeth 727 Davis, Angela 530 Davis, Elizabeth Gould 620 Davis , Judy 687 Dawn, The 192 Dawson, C. A. 194 Day, Marele 452 Decker, Mary 501 Declaration of the Rights of Women 155 Ded, Lal 384 Dédé, Sanité 96

Delafield, Kate 453 Delauney, Sonia 358, 751 Deledda, Grazia 201 Demeter 80 depression (economic) 165 Dert and Do 768 detectives: fictional 245, 326, 453, 454 Devanney, Gwen 451 diabetes 20 Dialectic of Sex, The 188, 627 Diana Triformis 49 Diary of Elizabeth Pepys 117 Diary of a Good Neighbour, The 342 Dickinson, Emily 458 Dido 215 Didrickson, Babe 253 Die, Countess Beatrice de 764 Die Anti-feministen 513 Dietrich, Amalie 12 Dietrich, Marlene 671 Dillard, Annie 85 Dinesen, Isak 324 discovery: astronomy 2, 22; DNA 16, 92; foxglove 33; Nystatin 58; photography 66; radium 91; relativity 61, see also creation; firsts; invention Djangguwal Sisters 108 DNA 16, 92 Dobkin, Alix 789 doctors see medicine: doctors Doeff, Michele De 617 Doerr, Harriet 461 Dohm, Hedwig 513 Don’t Fall Off the Mountain 779 Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) 366, 504, 755 Down Below 460 ‘Down City Streets’ 494 Dragonriders 379 Dragonsong 269 drugs 241, 345 Druids 49

Index Drysdale, Anne 766 du Maurier, Daphne 472 Duckworth, Stella 291 Dudevant, Baronne 327 Dunham, Katherine 739 Dupin, Aurore Lucie 327 Duras, Marguerite 656 Dworkin, Andrea 540 Earhart, Amelia 507 Earthsea 412 eccentrics 286, 425 economics 282, 558, 559 Edelson, Mary Beth 808 Eden’s Lost 688 Edgeworth, Maria 7 education 5, 7, 226, 257, 551 Egypt 121, 171, 216, 217, 220, 236, 374, 418; rulers 171, 172, 220, 236, 374, 406 Einstein see MaricEinstein Eire, Queen 125 El Saadawi, Nawal 418 El Salvador 1 Eleanor of Aquitaine 203, 221 Elek, Ilona 670 Elgin, Suzette Haden 440 Eliot, George 324 Elizabeth I 385 Embroidering Earth’s Mantle (painting) 316 Emma 330 empresses see queens and empresses engineering 26 England 480, 488 Enheduanna 112 entomology 25 environment 67, 77, 85, 86, 102, 509, 558, 729 Envoy from Mirror City, The 331 Enya 743 Epona 408 Equal Rights Party 277 equality 560, 641, see also law Esther 166, 492 Ethiopia 109, 119, 130, 173

Etruscan people 1 Evans, Ada 285 Evans, Mary Anne 324 Evatt, Elizabeth 363 Eve 45, 167 Evelina 330 Everyone’s Autobiography 517 evil 104 executions 170, 247, 467, 468, 529, 534, 573 Fabian Society 562 Fadette 330 Fairy Tree (Fitzroy Gardens) 752 Falasha people 130 family 39, 254, 255 Family at Misrule, The 767 Fanshawe, Miss 713 farmers and farming 87, 275, 431; pastoralists 766 fashion 102, 133, 184, 185, 358, 446, 598, 652, 653, 654, 655, 732, 740 Fates 49 Faust 202 Fecunditas 28 Feeling the Space 263 Female Eunuch, The 188, 531 Feminine Mystique, The 187, 601 Feminist Party 469 Ferron 790 fiction 114, 305, 310, 329, 593; American 85, 164, 200, 270, 304, 347, 369, 751, 777, 778; AngloIrish 7; Aotearoa/New Zealand 212, 213, 330, 332, 421; Australian 70, 144, 145, 146, 209, 211, 273, 274, 306, 320, 322, 324, 330, 341, 345, 359, 447, 448, 451, 452, 734, 735, 767, 768, 769; Black American 797; British 143, 272; children’s 213, 438, 439, 768; Chilean 418;

Danish 324; detective 245, 325, 326, 424, 452, 453, 454, 479, 718, 806; diary 117; Dutch 314; English 11, 115, 250, 296, 297, 300, 313, 323, 324, 325, 326, 330, 343, 346, 353, 361, 362, 759, 804, 805; firsts 114, 116; French 142, 327, 330, 354; Ghanaian 594; horror 248, 450; Maori 212; prizes won 201, 212, 332, 735; radio 451; science 116, 379, 412, 440, 441; teenage 145, 359, 361, 767, see also poets and poetry; writers and writings filmstars and films 657, 658; American 241, 242, 243, 246, 279, 737, 773, 780; Australian 80, 211, 232, 234, 496, 563, 625, 686, 687, 688, 733, 800; documentaries 208, 290, 521, 563; French 656; German 659, 671; Maori 521; prizes 521 Finch, Anne (Countess of Winchelsea) 581 Fink, Margaret 688 Finland 1; rape law 524; suffrage 549 Firestone, Shulamit 627 First Sex, The 620 firsts: Aboriginal woman magistrate 148; academia 19, 429, 600; Academy of Arts and Sciences (US) 46; alchemy 141; architects 437; aviation 507; candidates 547; chemistry 57; computers 8; creation 1; dance 739; farming 87; filmstars 242, 243; Governor of South Australia 230; immunization 34; law

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Index 148, 229, 230, 231, 285, 363; mathematics 19; mayors 154; mechanics 147; medicine 55, 153; midwifery 31; million dollars 242; music for film 775; musician 529; neurosurgeon 16; novelist 115; nurse 529; Olympic Games 401, 402, 404, 462, 499, 500, 697, 698, 699, 701, 705; performances 762; physics 529; poets 276; politics 277, 547; printing 21; publishing 151, 371; recordings 694; river-crosser 210; Royal Society 22, 23; sanitation engineer 26; seeker after knowledge 45; sex tests 462; sociology 580; stockbrokers 278; suffrage 513, 546; surgery 54; table tennis 697; technology 56; television 529; woman 79; Women’s Studies 600; writers 112, 116, 142, 146; yachting 698, see also creation; discovery; invention Flanner, Janet 504 Flintoff, Debbie 660 ‘Flying Lesbians, The’ 378 Fontana, Lavinia 751 food and drink 238, 431; cookbooks 724, 727; diet 20; wine 728 For Love Alone 688 For Love or Money 563 Forerunner, The 558 Forrest, Katherine 453 Fortunae 49 Fossey, Dian 88 Fourteen’s Good, Eighteen’s Better 686 Frame, Janet 331, 418 Framework 456 France 480, 565; suffrage 549 Frances, Maud 543

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Frankenstein 248 Franklin, Lady Jane 210 Franklin, Miles 209, 273, 330, 451 Franklin, Rosalind 16, 92 Fraser, Dawn 663, 706 Fredegund 565 Free Fall through Featherless Flight 788 French, Marilyn 329 French Provincial Cooking 727 Freya 81, 373 Friedan, Betty 601 Fulhame, Elizabeth 24 Fungi 129 Gage, Matilda Joslyn 545 Gaia 509 Gamble, Professor Helen 632 games 685, see also Herean Games; Olympic Games; sports; chess Gandhi, Indira 471 Gang of Four 566 gardeners and gardens 287, 729, 730, 731, 752, 784 Gardner, Kay 789 Garland, Judy 241 Garner, Helen 211, 345 Gaudron, Justice Mary 229 Gaudy Night 807 genetics 16, 92 Gentileschi, Artemisia 169, 220, 751 Gérard, Marguérite 751 Germany 418, 427; Berlin 378; suffrage 549 Gertrude the Great 95 ‘Gertrude Stein’ (painting) 456 Ghana 131 Gibbs, May 330, 344 Gibbs, Pearl 149 Gibson, Althea 710 Gibson, Sarah 625 Gilbert, Peggy 675 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 340, 390, 558 Gimbutas, Marijia 110

Ginga 129 Gippsland 451 Glanville-Hicks, Peggy 317 Goblin Market 360 goddesses 798; Afghanistan 373; Africa 94; Anatolia 1; Ancient Greece 1, 6, 49, 51, 80, 82, 103, 113, 373, 509, 613; Arabia 49; of arts 6; Ashanti 1; Australia 373; Celtic 107; China 373; Colombia 1; creators 1; of culture 6; Druid 49; Egypt 6, 118, 373; El Salvador 1; Etruscan 1; Finland 1; Hawaii 373; of healing 28; India 6, 42, 49, 52, 105, 373; IndoEuropean 49; Ireland 6, 49, 373; Judaea 43; of language 6; Maori 1; Mexico 373; Mount Everest 372; Navajo 373; New Ireland 6; Norway 81, 373; Pelasgian 1; primacy of 110; Roman 6, 49, 111; Russian 373; of science 6; Siberian Koryak 6; Viking 49; Wales 373; Yoruba 373, 740 ‘Golden Girl’ 648 goldfields 146, 256 Goldman, Emma 589, 770 Goldstein, Vida 547 Goncharova, Natalia 748, 751 Gone With the Wind 270 ‘Goodbye to All That’ 599 Goolagong, Evonne 651 Gordimer, Nadine 201 Gorgons 49 Gorris, Marlene 657 Gorska, Tamara 368 Gouges, Olympe de 155, 247 Gould Davis, Elizabeth 628 Gould, Shane 662

Index Grace, Patricia 212, 796 graffiti 582, 603, 629, 633 Graham, Bette 59 Grahn, Judy 782 Grapefruit 263, 605 ‘Grass’ 441 Grass is Singing, The 442 Gray Panthers 609 Greece: Ancient 373 Greenaway, Kate 751 Greene, Catherine 61 Greenough, Gail 714 Greer, Germaine 531 Grenville, Kate 144 Grey, Lady Jane 386 Grimké, Sarah Moore 608 Groen, Alma de 734 Groover, Jan 746 Grosz, Elizabeth 617 Group, The 187 Guerrilla Girls 751 Guggenheim, Peggy 795 Gunn, Aeneas 451 H. D. see Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) Hades 413 Hadewych/Hadewijch of Antwerp 95, 314 hair 635 Hale, Corky 675 Hall Petroff, Audrey 675 Hall, Radclyffe 293, 300, 301 Hammer of Witches, The 140 Hand that Cradles the Rock, The 717 Hanff, Helene 422 Hanging Rock 447, 497 Hansberry, Lorraine 206 Hanscombe, Gillian 306 Hardisty, Sue 208 Hari, Mata 573 Harity 373 Harmer, Wendy 736 Harper Lee, Nellie 778 Harris, La-Neeta 595 Hatshepsut 171, 220, 374, 406 Hawaii 373 Haworth 487 Head, Bessie 418, 593

Heagney, Muriel 560 health and healing 9, 20, 28, 32, 33, 38, 40, 41, 89, 97, 101, 308, 541, see also medicine Hearing Trumpet, The 460 Hebe-Hera-Hecate 49 Hecate Trivia 613 Hecate’s Charms 306 Helen 7 Héloïse 587 Hepburn, Katharine 773, 774 Heptameron, The 175 Hepworth, Barbara 751, 763 Hera 113 Herean Games 113 Heremakhonon 310 Herland 390 Herland (NSW) 391 Herschel, Caroline 2, 22, 74 Hesse, Eva 751 Hewett, Dorothy 637 hieroglyphs 118 High Tide 686 Hildegard of Bingen 20, 95, 411, 483 Hiroshima, mon amour 656 Ho, Lady 377 Hogarth Press 339 Hogshead, Nancy 696 Holland see Netherlands (Holland) Hollander, Nicole 350 Holliday, Billie 672 Holmer, Ulrike 668 Holtby, Winifred 294 Hong Kingston, Maxine 418 Honnamma 515 Horae 49 Horne, Marilyn 691 Horta, Maria Teresa 315 House of All Nations, The 785 housewives and housework 557 How to Observe 580 Hrotsvita of

Gandersheim 202 Huang O 491 Hudgins, Margaret 543 Huggins, Erica 543 Hulme, Keri 332 humourists and humour 98, 349, 350, 514, 602, 629, 633, 719, 736, 774, 786 Hunter, Ruby 494 Hurston, Zora Neale 258 Hyang-Soon, Seo 669 Hygeia 28 hygiene 26 ‘Hymn to Her’ 744 Hymne à l’amour 264 Hynde, Chrissie 744 Hypatia 216 hysteria 37 Ibu people 132 Iceland 178, 469 ‘Ich bin von Kopf’ 671 Ifuru 371 immolation 526 immunization 34 ‘In search of my mother’s garden’ 784 in vitro fertilization 623, 624, 625 Inanna 28 incest 248 income 431 India 373, 432, 471, 473, 475, 526; rape law 524 indigenous people 212, 214, 332, 336, 338, 370, 464, 465, 477, 521, 796, see also Australian Aborigines Indonesia 128 industrial relations 150, 560, 641; equal rights 560, 641; theorists 240, 282; trade unions 97, 273, 560; women’s strikes 156, 178, 179; world union 240, see also work infibulation 525 Ingleton, Sue 799 innoculation 35, 36 Inquisition 571

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Index International Women’s Conference Against the War 556 International Women’s Year 577 invention 66; agriculture 51; air-line reservation system 58; arts 6; astronomy 74; chemistry 57; computers 58; culture 6; denial 50; hieroglyphs 118; innoculation 35; language 6; Liquid Paper 58, 59; mechanical arts 51; music 52; printing 21; Rolfing 101; royalties 61; Sanskrit 52; science 6, 52; Scotchgard 58; speech 52; spinning wheel 61; stream-ofconsciousness writing 756; technology 56; wheel 60; wisdom 52, see also creation; discovery; firsts Iran 432, 527, 528, 529; Amazon women 392 Iraq: Amazon women 392 Ireland 125, 373, 418, 481, 484, 486, 536 Irigaray, Luce 617 Iselda 722 Ishtar 28 Isis 6, 94, 373 Israel 569 Iturbide, Graciela 463 Izumi Shikibu 409 Jackson, Shirley 450 Jaga people 129 James, Alice 328 James, Florence 448 James, P. D. 326 Jane Eyre 250, 343 Japan 1, 381; Kabuki 381; Kyoto 409; rape law 524; suffrage 549 Jedda 733 Jeffreys, Sheila 539 Jefimija 417

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Jekyll, Gertrude 287 Jesse Tree, The 762 Jessye, Eva 738 Jevgenija 417 Jews and Judaism 43, 511, 512, see also Scriptures, Hebrew Jezebel 388 Jinga 129 Joan of Arc 135, 136 Joan Makes History 144 Joanna May 346 Johnson, Amy 776 Johnson, Eva 493, 518 Johnson, Lady Bird 280 Johnson, Lil 672 Johnson, Sonia 622 Johnston, Jill 604 Johnstone, Lorna 715 Jolley, Elizabeth 322, 330, 451 Joplin, Janis 673 Jordan, Lucy 674 Joyner-Kersee, Jacki 647 Judith: in art 169; biblical 168; of Ethiopia 130 Juliana of Norwich 95 Kabuki theatre 381 Kaccipettu 395 Kahlo, Frida 290, 751 Kahukiwa, Robyn 796 Kaipkire 597 Kali 42, 105 Kashmir 384 Kauffman, Angelica 751 Kawakubo, Rei 655 Keane, Molly 418 ‘Keese, Oliné’ 207 Keller, Helen 351 Kelly, Mary 754 Kemet 406 Kempe, Margery 485 Kennedy, Florynce R. 537 Kenney, Annie 163 Kezia 330 Khaizuran 393 Kiek, Winifred 364 Kirner, Joan 162 Klee Wyck 338 Klein, Melanie 39 Klimt, Hilma af 751 Knossos 414

Knowall, Lady 313 Koghtnatsi, Khosrovidoukht 383 Kollwitz, Käthe 520, 751 Kooning, Elaine de 751 Korbut, Olga 680 Kouchak, Nahabed 383 Kovalevsky, Sonya 14 Krasner, Lee 751 Kristeva, Julia 617 Kristiansen, Ingrid 709 Kuanyin 373 Kuhn, Maggie 609 Kunapipi 373 Kyniska 646 La Malinche 127 Láadan 440 Labé, Louise 503, 723 Labumore 335 Lace Makers of Naraspur, The 473 Ladies’ Almanac, The 300 ‘Lady Dorothy Nevill’ 555 Lagerlöf, Selma 201 Lahey, Vida 750 Lakme 693 Lambert, Susan 625 Lane, Ann J. 600 Lange, Dorothea 165, 289, 751 Langley, Eve 451 language(s) 6, 10, 52, 127, 602, 611, 612, 613, 614; Indo-European 396; Kanada 515; Kashmiri 384; Latin 410; Persian 490; Sanskrit 396; Serbian 417; Tamil 395; Urdu 476 ‘Last Man, The’ 248 Laurencin, Marie 751 Laveau, Marie 96 Lavender Jane Loves Women 195, 789 law: Aboriginal 232, 256; academia 429, 632; against abortion 536; Basic Wage Case 641; Contagious Diseases Acts 284, 535; courts

Index 148; defamation 117; Equal Wage/Pay Cases 641; false accusations 543; graduates 285; immolation 139; inclusive language 612; judges 229, 230, 363; Law Reform Commission 231; Law Reform Commission Act 612; marriage 564; married women as property 553, 554; Minimum Wage Case 641; National Wage Cases 641; oppressive to women 284; prostitution 564; rape 524; repealed 166; Salic 570; Supreme Court judges 576; trials 136, 176; Women’s Legal Status Act 285 Lawrence, Carmen 567 Lawson, Louisa 192, 767 Le Guin, Ursula 412, 508 Leakey, Caroline Woolmer 207 Lee, Nellie Harper 778 Lefebvre, Mme 57, 62 Lelande, Amélie 17 Lempicka, Tamara de 368 Les Amazones 262 Les Jeunes Filles (painting) 368 Lesbian Nation 604 lesbians: band 378; in biography 294; euphemisms 304; famous 294, 295, 296, 298, 300, 301, 302, 304, 355, 367, 504, 505, 517, 723, 724, 730, 794; feminist theory 539; in fiction 296, 347, 348; love 716, 717, 723; in paintings 293; recordings 195; ‘sapphic poet’ 354; Sappho 100, 506, 716, 721; writers and writings 295, 298, 301,

302, 305, 367, 604, 717, 720, 747; fiction 300, 306, 453; poets and poetry 100, 354, 355, 377, 506, 716, 721, 723 Lessing, Doris 323, 342, 415, 442 ‘Let Him Claim His Copyright to This’ 553 Letters to my Daughter 271 Lewis, Edmonia 751 Lewis, Jeannie 788 Leyster, Judith 751 Libya: Amazon women 394 Life and Words of a !Kung Woman 370 Lifting Belly 304 Lilith 69 Lindsay, Joan 447 Linton, Norah 145 Lion and the Cobra, The 694 Liquid Paper 58, 59 Lispector, Clarice 418 literature see fiction Little Mother Meg 767 logic 10 Lohrey, Amanda 638 ‘Lola’ 671 London 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424 London School of Economics 562 Longhi, Barbara 751 Lönn, Wivi 437 Looking Backwards to Tomorrow 788 Los Angeles 459 ‘Lottery, The’ 450 Love Poems and Other Revolutionary Actions 334 Lovelace, (Augusta) Ada Byron 8, 68 Lovell, Pat 497 Lowell, Amy 755 Loy, Mina 504, 755 Luckes, Loretta 543 ‘Lucy’ 109 Lutyens, Elisabeth 480 Luxemburg, Rosa 282

Lydia (Book of Acts) 352 lynching 534 Lysistrata 224 Maar, Dora 751 Macarthur, Elizabeth 87 McCaffrey, Anne 269, 379 McClintock, Barbara 93 McCulloch, Colleen 451 McKay, Heather 649 MacKellar, Dorothea 318 MacKillop, Mary 5 McKimmie, Jackie 626 McKinnon, Catharine 540 Maclaine, Shirley 779 McLawler, Sarah 675 Maconchy, Elizabeth 480, 762 Macuilxochitl 380 Madagascar 434 Madame Butterfly 693 madness 340, 343, 558 Magabala Books 495 magazines and newspapers 189, 190, 191, 211, 282, 630, 631, 801, 803; journalists 190, 192, see also publishers Mahodahi 396 Mahy, Margaret 213 Makeba, Miriam 741 Makeda 120 malaria 30 Mali 434 Malleus Maleficarum 140 Mallica 123 Man of Letters 734 Man Who Loved Children, The 341 Manderley 472 Mansfield, Katherine 249, 330, 421 Maori people 1, 212, 521 marathon see Olympic Games: marathon Marcet, Jane 76 March of the Women 548 Margaret of Austria 174 Margaret of Navarre 175 Maric-Einstein, Mileva 18, 61

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Index Marie Antoinette 281, 468 Marie-Louise (of Spain) 182 Marie-Therese 182 Maris, Hyllus 257 marriage 235, 551, 553, 554, 564, 601, 712, 722; in Morocco 398, see also law; violence against women Marsa, Line 264 Marsden, Dora 755 Martin, Violet 747 Martineau, Harriet 580 Maru 593 Marula 396 Marx, Eleanor 251, 590 Mary: Queen of Scots 176 Maslin, Susan 208 Mass Strike, The 282 ‘Matchless Orinda, The’ 757 Mater Matuta 28 mathematics 8, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 47, 68, 216, 511 Mathilde 248 Matthews, Justice Jane 576 Mayer, Hélène 512 mayors 154 ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ 673 Mead, Margaret 44 Mechain, Gwerfyl 407 mechanical arts see technology Mechtild of Magdeburg 309 Medallion (painting) 293 Medea 137 medicine: academia 308, 428; Ancient Greek 3; attitude to women 98; British Medical Association 153; diagosis 32, 308; doctors 38, 54, 152, 153; immunization 34; innoculation 35, 36; IVF 623, 624, 625; male attitudes 98; medieval

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29, 53, 308; natural remedies 20, 30, 33, 55; neurosurgery 16; obstetrics and gynaecology 3, 4, 29, 53, 89; pain management 308; photography 288; Queen Victoria Hospital 152; Rolfing 101, see also health and healing; surgery; witches and witchcraft Mediterranean Food 727 Medusa 237 Meir, Golda 569 Melpomene 401 Melvyn, Sybylla 330, 687 Memphis Minnie 672 men: absence of 616; described 568, 605, 608, 639, 771, 785; fathers 517, 545; as oppressors 607, 608 Menchú, Rigoberta 464, 465 Mendelssohn, Fanny 268 Menolly 269 menstruation 538 Mer-neith 406 Meredith, Gwen 451 Meredith, Louisa Anne 70 Messrs Marks & Co. 422 Meta, Merata 521 Mexico 127, 290, 373, 432, 460, 461, 667 Mexico City 523 Meyer, Sabine 793 Mgcina, Sophie 477 midwifery 31, 541, see also childbirth; medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology Midwives’ Book, The 31 Mies, Maria 473 Miles, Bea 286 Miles, Francesca 245 Miles Franklin Award 735 Miller, Isabel 299 Miller, Lee 751 Millet, Kate 606 minerology 10 Minerva 6, 60

misogyny 99, 104, 513, 531, 532, 533 Miss America contest 186 Miss Fanshawe and the Great Dragon Adventure 713 Mistral, Gabriela 201 Mists of Avalon, The 143 Mitchell, Margaret 270 Mitchell, Maria 46 Mitchell, Dame Roma 230 Miti-Miti 6 Model, Lisette 292, 751 Modersohn-Becker, Paula 751 Modjeska, Drusilla 255 Modotti, Tina 290, 751 Moerae 49 Moholy, Lucia 745 Mokosh 373 Moncrieff, Gladys 449 Monk, Meredith 808 Monkey Grip 345 Monot, Marguerite 264 Monroe, Harriet 755 Monroe, Marilyn 780 Monster 196, 783 Montague, Lady Mary Wortley 36 Montessori, Maria 226 Montsalvat 451 Moore, Marianne 755 Morgan, Robin 186, 190, 196, 599, 783 Morgan, Sally 356, 357 Morisot, Berthe 751 Moses, Grandma 751 Moss, Cynthia 88 ‘Most Dangerous Woman in the World’ 589 Mothers and Lovers 348 mothers and motherhood 255, 348 mothers-in-law 254 Mott, Lucretia 554 mountaineer 375 Mozambique 433 Ms magazine 189, 190 Mumaring 150 MumShirl 334 Münter, Gabriele 751

Index Murasaki Shikibu, Lady 114, 204 Murder at the Nightwood Bar 718 murders 199, 216, 282, 307, 534, see also assassinations; executions Murdoch, Iris 362 Murphy, Devla 403 Murray River 451 muses 721 Musgrave, Thea 337, 480 music 52, 100; bands 378; blues 259, 672; composers 262, 268, 317, 337, 480, 548, 585, 675, 683, 689, 758, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 775, 789; conductors 337, 775; dance 337; film 775; instrumental 267, 337, 519, 529, 675, 761, 765, 789, 792, 793; opera 260, 266, 317, 336, 337, 482, 691, 692, 693, 738, 791; recordings 195, 196, 682; singing 159, 259, 261, 264, 266, 330, 336, 449, 459, 476, 481, 482, 579, 672, 673, 682, 683, 689, 742, 744, 787, 788; troubadour songs 203, 722, 764 Mutemwia 406 My Brilliant Career 686, 687 My Place 356 My Survival as an Aboriginal 233 mysticism 95, 312, 314 mystics see religious women mythology 1, 27, 42, 49, 71, 81, 83, 94, 104, 107, 108, see also goddesses Nairne, Carolina 758 Najma 476 Namjoshi, Suniti 305, 306 Nandi 597

Nannakaiyar 395 Naomi 254 Nastséestsan 373 National Council of Women (NCW) 641 National Pay Equity Coalition 641 National Velvet 361 Native Tongue 440 naturalists 12 Navajo people 373 Navarre (France) 175 Navratilova, Martina 252, 650 Nazarova, Irina 700 Neave, Professor Marcia 632 ‘Need for Revolutionary Feminism, The’ 539 Neel, Alice 751 Nefertiti 217 Neith-hotep 406 Nepal 432 Nerthus 28 Nestlé company 40 Netherlands (Holland) 174; rape law 524 Neto, Ruth 478 Nettlesheim, Agrippa von 32 Neumann, Hanna 19 Nevelson, Louise 751 Never Never 451 New York 457, 467 New Zealand see Aotearoa/New Zealand Newcombe, Caroline 766 newspapers see magazines and newspapers Nguyen Thi Bingh 592 Ní Chonaill, Eibhlín Dhubh 486 Nigeria 132, 133; rape law 524 Nightingale, Florence 26 Nisa 370 Nitocris 121, 406 No Immediate Danger 67 Nobel prizes 62, 92, 93; for literature 201; for peace 465, 474

Noether, Amalie Emmy 47, 511 Non, je ne regrette rien 264 Noonuccal, Oodgeroo 319 Norfolk 485 Norfolk Island 451 Norns 49 North, Marianne 73 Norton, Caroline 553 Norway 373, 470 Nosy Alf 769 Novels of the Queen of Navarre 175 nuclear warfare/power 86 Nullabor Plains 451 nuns see religious women Nur Jahan 490 nurses 264, 273, 322, 529 Nutcote 344 Nwapa, Flora 371 Nystatin 58 Nzingha 129, 130 Obermer, Nesta 293 O’Connor, Deirdre 363 O’Connor, Sinead 694 ‘Ode to a Gym Teacher’ 681 O’Flynn, Bridget 675 O’Keefe, Georgia 456, 751 Okkur Macatti 395 Olga Constantinova, Grand Duchess 389 Olgas (mountains) 389 Oliveros, Pauline 808 Olivia Records 196 Olsen, Tillie 772 Olympic Games: archery medal 669; athletics 501, 699, 700, 701, 704; athletics medals 99, 253, 648, 660, 702, 705; basketball medal 666; canoeing medal 678; chariot race 646; cycling 404; fencing 512; fencing medal 670 first mother 699; in

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Index Germany 99, 659; golf medal 643; Greek 80, 113; gymnastics medals 679; heptathlon medal 647; hockey medals 443, 444; hurdles medals 253, 660; javelin medal 253; judo 499; marathon 401, 402; marathon medal 701; mother and daughter 700; oldest competitor 715; sex tests 462; shooting 667; shooting medals 668, 676; skating medal 677; swimming 706; swimming medals 663, 696, 703, 706; table tennis 697; tallest and heaviest woman 666; throwing medal 707; track and field medal 703; yachting medal 698; youngest winners 668, 669, see also Herean Games; sports Olympische Spiele 659 Omelette and a Glass of Wine, An 727 Omerod, Eleanor 25 On the Connexion of Physical Sciences 22 On Guard 625 Ona people 27 One Writer’s Beginnings 369 Ono No Komachi 409 Ono, Yoko 263, 605, 808 ontology 10 Oppenheim, Meret 751 Orfeo 337 Organization of Angolan Women (OMA) 478 ‘Origin and Growth of Ripple Marks, The’ 23 Orlando 296 Oronooko, or the History of the Royal Slave 313 Orr, Jill 808 O’Shane, Pat 148 Other Women 347 Our Sister Killjoy 594

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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 538 Oya 373 Pack of Women 684, 685 painters and paintings 754; American 456; Australian 357, 750; Canadian 338; English 73, 293; Guerrilla Girls 751; Mexican 290, 316, 460; patron 795 Paley, Grace 777 Panacea 28 Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi 283 Pandora 104 Pankhurst, Adele 498 Pankhurst, Christabel 160, 572 Pankhurst, Emmeline 160 Paradise Papers, The 798 Paretsky, Sara 454 Parker, Dorothy 774, 786 Parker, Mary S. 608 Parkes, Rosa 161 Parvati-Durga-Uma (Kali) 49 Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity 272 Pata Pata 741 patriarchy 516 Patronage 7 Patterson, Ann 675 Patu 521 Peabody, Miss 330 Peale, Sarah 751 Peavey, Doris 675 Pelasgian people 1 Pele 373 PEN 194 Penelope 311 Penguin Australian Women’s Library 750 Penthesilea 399 Pepys, Elizabeth 117 Peregrinations d’une paria 240 Pern 379 Perovskaya, Sophia 223 persecution 136

Persephone 71, 413 Persia 492 Persuasion 771 Perth (WA) 451 Peru 667 Philips, Katherine 757 philosophy 10, 95, 116, 228, 312, 362 phlogiston 24 photographers and photography 64, 65, 66, 165, 291, 745; American 369, 457, 751; portrait 290; process 66; specialized subjects 63, 165, 288, 289, 292, 369, 457, 746 Photographs of British Algae 66 Phranc 265 physics 10 Piaf 788 Piaf, Edith 264 Pickford, Mary 242, 243 Picnic at Hanging Rock 497 Pilbara 150 Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek 85 Pilgrimage 756 Pillow Book 586 Pinayeva, Ludmila Khvedosyuk 678 piracy 126 plants 12, 69, 73 Plath, Sylvia 200, 690 playwrights and plays 518, 762; American 206; Ancient Greek 224; Australian 493; German 202; Japanese 381 poets and poetry 782, 783; African 371; American 90, 196, 276, 458, 690, 755; Ancient Greek 506, 716; Australian 306, 318, 319, 334, 619, 637; Aztec 380; Black American 205; Chinese 235, 377, 491; Dutch 314; English 313, 360, 386, 581, 583; French 135, 354, 503, 723; Indian 384, 515;

Index Japanese 263, 409, 586, 753; Kanadan 515; Latin 410; Lesbian 506, see also Stein, Gertrude Nigerian 371; Persian 490; Sanskrit 396; Tamil 395; troubadour 722, see also music Welsh 407 poison 9, 89, 97, 251 Poland 667 Polgar, Judith 781 politicians and politics 469; American 277; Aotearoa/New Zealand 574; Australian 162, 547, 575; Black American 514, 530, 543, 595; British 160; Burmese 474; communism 282, 559; foreign minister 592; German 282; Indian 471; international 590; Israeli 569; lesson 568; marxism 591; members of cabinet 575; members of parliament 547; minister of finance 574; Norwegian 470; premiers 162, 567; prime ministers 470, 471, 472, 568; socialism 274, 558, 562, 631; South African 590; Special Adviser on Women’s Affairs 578; thinkers 240, 274, 282, 590, 591; Vietnamese 592; world union 240, see also industrial relations; suffrage; suffragettes Pollit, Louie 330 Pons Guercheville, Antoinette de 177 Ponsonby, Margaret 303 Ponsonby, Sarah 302 Popova, Ljubova 751 Poppie Nongena 477 Poppy 255 Porgy and Bess 738 pornography see violence against women Post Partum Document 754

Potiki 212 poverty 371 Preston, Margaret 69 Pretenders 744 Price, Leontyne 260 Pride and Prejudice 353 Pridham, Ursula 728 Prince Edward Island 502 Princess Smartypants 712 printing 21, 43, 64 prisoners 282, 313, 316, 386, 387, 530, 571, 592; torture 530, 571, 592 Pritchard, Katherine Susannah 320 Proctor, Thea 750 prophets 83 Propositiones philosophicae 10 prostitutes and prostitution 381, 535, 770; legal 564; sex tourism 435, see also violence against women pseudonyms 299, 324, 325, 327, 342, 359 psychology 39, 88, 98, 100 public servants 148 publishers 192, 196, 272, 332, 339, 342, 371, 495, 545; rejections 585, see also magazines and newspapers Pure and the Impure, The 354 purple cloth 352 pyramid builder 121 qualities of women 514, 515 Quant, Mary 185 quarrels 516 ‘Queen of Amarchists’ 589 Queen Victoria Hospital 152 queens and empresses: of Acquitaine 221; African 120; Amazonian 399; of Angola 129; of Baghdad 393; of Briton

124; of Burma 123; of Byzantium 219; of China 490; of Egypt 171, 172, 173, 220, 236, 374; of England 170, 385; of Ethiopia 119; Falasha 130; female pharaohs 171, 220, 374; of France 281, 468, 565; of Ireland 125; of Navarre 175; of Persia 166, 492; of Russia 731; of Scotland 125, 176; of Sheba 120; of Spain 182; of Tunisia 397, see also rulers Queensland 451 Question of Silence, A 657 racism 274, 511, 512, 518, 519, 521, 534, 579, 593, 594, 618 Radical Feminists 197 radio 333 radium and radiation 68, 91, 430 Radke, Lina 99 Rainier, Priaulx 480, 763 Rainier, Yvonne 808 Raisin in the Sun, A 206 Ramsay, Mrs 330 Rand, Ayn 84 rape see violence against women Rat 599 Reading Group, The 638 Reagan, Nancy 737 Real Charlotte, The 747 Rebecca 472 ‘Red Emma’ 589 Redd, Vi 675 Reddy, Helen 787 Redondo Beach 459 Refractory Girl 630 refugees 431 Reid, Elizabeth 578 Reifenstahl, Leni 659 religion 5, 13, 79, 110, 551; church condemned 545; feminist theology 621; ordination 364, see also goddesses; mythology; religious

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Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth 266 science 2, 6, 7, 22, 23, 24, 52, 57, 116, see also astronomy; botany; chemistry Scota, Queen 125 Scotchgard 58 Scotland 480 Scriptures: Christian (New Testament) 78, 352; Hebrew (Old Testament) 45, 166, 167, 168, 254, 388, 492; Koran 120; Talmud 120 SCUM Manifesto, The 199, 607 Scutt, Jocelynne 231 Searle, Dora 750 Second Sex, The 620 Sei Shonagon 586 Selby, Bettina 405 Semenova, Iuliana 666 Sense and Sensibility 759 separatists 227 Seshat 118 Seven Little Australians 767 ‘Seven-tongued orator’ 10 Sévigné, Marie de 760 sex tourism 435 Sexing the Cherry 419 Sexual Politics 188, 606 Sexual Subversions 617 sexuality: euphemisms 235, 304; in fiction 274; intercourse 223; orgasm 304, see also humourists and humour Sforza, Caterina 387 Shame 496 Shange, Ntozake 726 Sharp, Jane 31 Sheba: Queen of 120 Shelley, Mary 248 Shotlander, Sandra 456 Show Some Emotion 682 Shrimpton, Jean 446 ‘Sibyl of the Rhine’ 483 Sila 396 Silabhlattarika 396

Index Silver Moon Books 423 Simon, Ella 510 Simpson, Wallis 244 Sissinghurst 730 Sisterhood is Powerful 188 Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart 5 Sitwell, Edith 763 Six Australian Songs 585 Sklarek, Norma Merrick 48 slavery 157, 597, 770 Slavic people 27 Slavin, Estelle 675 Slick, Grace 725 Slovo, Gillian 479 Small, Judy 618 Smith, Bessie 259, 672 Smith, Iva 672 Smith, Patti 459 Smith, Rose 543 Smyth, Ethel 480, 548 Snugglepot 330 Sobeknofru 406 Social Democratic Party of Poland 282 sociology 580 Solanas, Valerie 199 Solano, Solita 504 Solar Music (painting) 316 Solarnas, Valerie 607 Some Experiences of an Irish RM 747 Somers, Jane 342 Somerville, Edith 747 Somerville, Mary 22 Somerville and Ross 747 Something Shady 718 Songhoi people 27 Sophia 43 South Africa 477, 479, 480; suffrage 549 South Australia 493 Southern, Clara 750 Spain 416 Spare Rib magazine 191 ‘sparrow’ 264 speech 52 Spence, Catherine Helen 146 Spence, Jo 288

Spender, Dale 117, 516, 602, 640 spies 313, 573 Spiral Collective 332 sports 80, 99; cycling 403, 404, 652; golf 642; gymnastics 680; hockey 443, 444; javelin 665; judo 499; marathon 708, 709; netball 445; Persian 644; polo 644; records 253, 709; running 702; sailing 426, 489; sex tests 634; showjumping 711, 714; softball 661; squash 649; tennis 252, 650, 651, 710 tests 634, see also Herean Games; Olympic Games Spowers, Ethel 750 Squeaker’s mate 330 Sri Lanka 557 Staël, Germaine de 588 Stanhope, Lady Hester 425 Statue of Liberty 467 Staying on Alone 724 Stead, Christina 330, 341, 785 Stein, Gertrude 304, 355, 367, 504, 505, 517, 724, 794 Steinem, Gloria 190, 538, 561 Steinseifer, Carrie 696 Stepenova, Vavara 751 Stephen, Vanessa 420, see also Bell, Vanessa Stephen, Virginia 420, see also Woolf, Virginia Stettheimer, Florine 751 stockbrokers 278 Stone, Constance 152 Stone, Elizabeth 55 Stone, Lucy 551 Stone, Merlin 798 Stoner McTavish 718 Stones for Ibarra 461 Story of an African Farm, The 590 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 164 students 529

Such Is Life 769 Sudden Death 252 suffrage 180, 181, 183, 546, 549, 550, 551 suffragettes 160, 163, 183, 273, 498, 547, 550, 551, 572; and sport 642 suicides 172, 228, 251, 726 Sullivan, Anne 351 Sulpicia 410 Sulter, Maud 272 Sumeria 112 surgery 53, 54 surrogacy 626 Sutherland, Joan 692 Sutherland, Margaret 585 Swanson, Gloria 243 Sweden 433 ‘Sweet Honey in the Rock’ 742 Sweetie 800 Switzerland 179, 180, 181; rape law 524; suffrage 549 Sydney 448, 452 Syers, Madge 677 Sykes, Roberta 334 Sylvia 349 Ta-wsret 406 Taeuber-Arp, Sophie 751 Talbot, Constance 65 Tale of Genji, The 114, 204 Talley, Jeannine 489 Tana Press 371 Tasma 359 Tasmania 152, 207, 210 Tay, Professor Alice Eh Soon 632 Taylor, Elizabeth 246, 737 Te Kanawa, Kiri 336 Teaching a Stone to Talk 85 technology 8, 15, 51, 56, 61, 62, 147 television director 529 ten-forty conference 610 Tepper, Sheri S. 441 Teresa of Avila 312, 416 Testament of Friendship 294

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Tubman, ‘General’ Harriet 157 Tullis, Julie 375 Tulliver, Maggie 330 Tunisia 397 Turkey 434 Two Friends 211 Two Laws 232 Uchido: Mitsuko 792 Uganda 432 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 164 Underworld 413 Undset, Sigrid 201 Unemployed Girls Relief Movement 560 Union of Australian Women (UAW) 641 Union ouvrière 240 United Kingdom 432; suffrage 549 United Nations 283 United States of America 432, 480, 488, 523; suffrage 549, 552, see also Black Americans Urania propitia 427 Urdu 476 Utopia 749 Valadon, Suzanne 751 Valenzuela, Luisa 418 Valkyries 400 Vallana 396 Valley, The (NSW) 391 Varo, Remedios 316, 751 Vashti’s Voice 211 Velho da Coata, Maria Fatima 315 venereal diseases 284, 308, 558 Venus 82 Venus of Willendorf 111 Victor, Emma 488 Victorian Arts Centre 585 Vidya 396 Viet Nam 134 Vigée Le Brun, Elizabeth 751 Villette 805 Vindication of the Rights of Women 155, 564 Vine, Barbara 325

violence against women: domestic 48; infibulation 525; pornography 540; rape 496, 522, 523, 530; rape in marriage 524; sati (suttee) 526; torture 571, 592; WAVAW 539, see also executions; murders; prostitutes and prostitution; suicides Virgin Mary 13, 78, 94, 141 Virgo 106 Vivien, Renée 354, 504 Voice of Ariadne, The 337 voodoo 96 Vorwärts 282 Voyage Out, The 297 Wagner, Sally Roesch 545 Wahine Toa 796 Waiting 626 Waitz, Grete 708 Wakefield, Hannah 488 Wales 373, 407 Walker, Alice 784, 797 Walker, Kath 319 Walling, Edna 729 Wandering Girl 495 Ward, Glenyse 495 warfare 122, 132, 616; art against 520; conference against 556; nuclear 86; Women’s Land Army 208, see also warriors Waring, Marilyn 559 Warner, Sylvia Townsend 298 warriors 122, 123, 124, 126, 129, 130, 132, 134, 135, 171, 397, 597,see also warfare Warshawski, V. I. 454 Warwick Fuller, Meta 751 Wawalag Sisters 108 wealth 242, 243, 244, 245, 541, 780, 786 Weaver, Harriet 755 weaving 311 Webb, Beatrice 562 Weil, Simone 228 Weldon, Fay 346 welfare benefits 560

Index Well of Loneliness, The 293 Wells-Barnett, Ida 534 Welty, Eudora 369 West, Mae 279 West, Rebecca 615 Western Australia 495 What Comes Naturally? 720 What Do They Call Me? 518 Wheatley, Phyllis 205 wheel 60 Wheeling Waring, Laura 751 When God Was a Woman 798 ‘When the Party’s Over’ 618 Whitbread, Fatima 664, 665 ‘White Rabbit’ 725 ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’ 775 Wide Sargasso Sea, The 343 Williamson, Cris 196 ‘Willow’ 682 Winnie the Witch 439 Winter, Mrs Maxim de (the second) 472 Winterson, Jeanette 419, 640 wisdom 43, 52 wise women 32, 33 witches and witchcraft 10, 136, 139, 140, 541, 542, see also Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH) Wolf, Christa 418 Wollstonecraft, Mary 155, 248, 564 Woman, Church and State 545 Woman as a Force in History 600 woman at the helm 489 Woman Is Talking to Death, A 782 woman with an opinion 615

Woman’s (Federal) Political Association 547 Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) 539 Women and Economics 558 Women of the Sun 257 Women Who Want to be Women 636 Women’s Electoral Lobby 641 Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH) 543, 544 Women’s Land 391 Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) 539, 641 Women’s Review of Books, The 803 Women’s Room, The 329 Women’s Social and Political Union 160 Women’s Studies 600 Women’s Trade Unions 273 Women’s Wax Works 195 Wood, Elizabeth 348 Woodhull, Victoria 277, 278 Woolf, Virginia 291, 295, 296, 297, 330, 339, 555, 562, 584, 639, see also Stephen, Virginia Word for the World is Forest, The 508 work 16, 238, 239, 240, 241, 431, 432, 433, 434, 557, 560, 561, 563, see also industrial relations World War II 208 Worowa Aboriginal College 257 Worowa Primary School 257 Wright, Judith 585, 619 writers and writings 52, 188, 194, 204, 258, 299, 340, 620, 785;

American 85, 187, 188, 198, 199, 271, 299, 328, 366, 369, 545, 558, 600, 601, 604, 606, 622, 751, 774, 779, 786; Aotearoa/New Zealand 331, 418, 559, 796; Argentinian 418; Australian 188, 208, 306, 321, 356, 365, 451, 560; biography 116, 294; Black American 784; Botswanan 418; Brazilian 418; censorship 638; Chilean 418; Chinese 418; Egyptian 418; England 460; English 294, 313, 466, 581, 615, 616, 639, 806; first 112; French 155, 310, 614, 620, 760; German 282, 418, 473, 513; Indian 475, 476; Irish 418; Japanese 204, 605; Mexican 460, 461; Nigerian 371; political 282; religious 95; Russian 418; South African 201, see also fiction; magazines and newspapers Wuthering Heights 804 Xiaoxuan 676 Yaa Asantewa 131 Yellow Wallpaper, The 340, 558 Yoruba people 133, 373 Young, Irma 675 Young Kabbarli, The 585 Youngest chess grandmaster 781 Yourcenar, Marguerite 142 Zabat 272 Zelle, Gertrude 573 Zetkin, Clara 556 Zimbabwe/Rhodesia 442, 443 zoology 10 Zubaidah 393

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The Falling Woman Susan Hawthorne Top Twenty Title, New Zealand Women’s Book Festival, 1992 The Falling Woman memorably dramatises a desert journey in which two women confront ancient and modern myths, ranging from the Garden of Eden to the mystique of epilepsy, and the mysteries of the universe itself. In the guise of three personae – Stella, Estella, Estelle – the falling woman struggles to find the map for her life and meet the challenge of her own survival. ‘A remarkable, lyrical first novel that weaves together such disparate themes as the mystery of epilepsy, love between women, and an odyssey across the Australian desert.’ – Ms Magazine. ‘Hawthorne shows assurance, a powerful historical and cultural imagination and a rich feel for language.’ – John Hanrahan, Age. ‘This is a beautiful book, written with powerful insight and captivating originality.’ – Julia Hancock, LOTL.

Angels of Power and other reproductive creations edited by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein 1991 Australian Feminist Book Fortnight Favourite In the tradition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the writers in this book use technological developments as their starting point in tracing the consequences of reproductive technologies. Imagination, vision and humour come together and demonstrate that women can resist the power of godlike scientists who long to create monsters and angels. With contributions by writers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and USA. ‘Angels of Power is an important ground-breaking anthology …’ – Karen Lamb, Age. ‘Angels of Power should head the reading list of any course in ethics and reproductive technology.’ – Karin Lines, Editions. ‘… renders ethical issues imaginatively through fiction and contributes significantly to this important debate.’ – Irina Dunn, Sydney Morning Herald.

Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue Gillian Hanscombe ‘Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both vision and anger in a prose that echoes the music of our thoughts back to us. Sybil gives us a lesbian erotic, a lesbian politics, a lesbian tradition, grounded in what Suniti Namjoshi defines as the prophetic. Welcome to lesbian imagination singing at full range.’ – Daphne Marlatt ‘That Sybil happily bears comparison with the works of Sappho, Virginia Woolf and Adrienne Rich is, in my view, a measure of just how important this work is to lesbian literature, and therefore to literature in general.’ – Suniti Namjoshi ‘Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue is a prophetic fugue in lesbian past, present and future time, Sybilline tidings of lesbian existence.’ – Mary Meigs ‘O I am enamoured of Sybil. Gillian Hanscombe is one of the most insightfully ironic, deliciously lyrical voices we have writing amongst us today.’ – Betsy Warland ‘A book where the lesbian voice meditates the essential vitality of she dykes who have visions. A book where Gillian Hanscombe’s poetry opens up meaning in such a way that it provides for beauty and awareness, for a space where one says yes to a lesbian we of awareness.’ – Nicole Brossard ‘Sybil is an exciting and compelling work. It is hard to think of any poet in Australia who can equal Hanscombe’s virtuosity and power.’ – Bev Roberts, Australian Book Review

If Passion Were a Flower Lariane Fonseca ‘Here the shadows of the plants were miraculously distinct. She noticed the separate grains of earth in the flower beds as if she had a microscope stuck to her eye. She saw the intricacy of the twigs of every tree. Each blade of grass was distinct and the markings of the veins and petals.’ – Virginia Woolf, Orlando. Bombay-born photographer, Lariane Fonseca was inspired by the writing of Virginia Woolf and the paintings of Georgia O’Keefe. In this breathtaking book she displays not only expertise but a sensitivity to the visual beauty of the world around her. These photographs allow us to glimpse the intricate wonder of nature. ‘If you appreciate great coffee table art buy the book … it’s a bargain.’ – Rosie Cox, Melbourne Star Observer.

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