1. How did the Lowell Mills girls play a significant role in the early American labor movement history?

2. How did the Iroquois women become a source of inspiration to nineteenth-century women's rights advocates?

3. What principal factors led to the "great schism" within the women's suffrage movement shortly after the end of the Civil War?

4. How did the tactics of the National Woman's Party lead to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920? If you're interested look my video lecture on the Suffrage Movement under the heading "Useful Things You Don't Have to Watch but May Want To".

5. What are the fundamental components of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and why was it opposed by some women's groups? Why has this Amendment NEVER passed?

6. What is womanism? In your opinion, should black women form a separate movement or should black women work only for racial rights? Explain your answer.

7. Conservative, republican feminist believe that radical feminism is destructive and that women's power in based in their difference from men and in women's roles in homes. They also oppose abortion and usually combine feminism with Christianity. In your opinion, is this feminism? Should other feminist learn how to work with Conservative feminists or oppose their policies? Pages 371 and 374 may help answer this question.

8. Define Equality Feminism and Difference Feminism. In your opinion, which is correct? Explain your answer.

9. In your opinion, are Chicana, Asian American, or Muslim women often omitted from feminist discussions? If so, why? How can we change this?