Ruth Marie Adams appointed fourth dean of Douglass College, Rutgers.

Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc. (TLW) founded in Los Angeles by June Wayne.

Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to run for the presidential nomination of a major party, receives 27 delegate votes at the GOP Convention in San Francisco.

Ruby Doris Smith presents paper entitled, "The Position of Women in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)." In response, SNCC leader, Stokely Carmichael, replies, "The only position for women in the SNCC is prone."

Mildred Barry Hughes elected first woman to the New Jersey Senate.

"Women Artists of America, 1707-1964" curated by William H. Gerdts, exhibited at the Newark Museum, NJ.

A feminist organization, later known as New York Radical Women, begins in New York; "consciousness-raising" techniques developed to empower women through self-knowledge.

Margery Somers Foster appointed fifth dean of Douglass College, Rutgers.

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis.

Robert E. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles.

Richard M. Nixon elected President; Spiro T. Agnew elected Vice President.

"Women's liberation" groups organize as outgrowths of the male-dominated student protest movement.

"Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement", the first independent radical women's newsletter, written and published in Chicago. By 1971 there are over 100 women's movement journals, newsletters and newspapers published in the U.S.

Over 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam; My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. Army personnel is revealed. 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march in Washington, DC, and 200,000 protesters gather in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Investigation of the Women's Movement for "subversive activity" begun by the FBI.

Shirley Chisholm, the first black female member of the House of Representatives, fights her way off an agricultural subcommittee, insisting on a committee with more relevance to her predominantly black and Hispanic constituents.

Shirley Temple Black makes her debut as U.S. delegate to the United Nations.

New York City police raid Stonewall Inn and gay patrons fight back; Stonewall considered by many to be the beginning of the gay and lesbian rights movement.

Columbia University Women's Liberation Group reports on the status of female faculty at Columbia; study reveals females represent 2% of University's tenured faculty, although it awards women 25% of doctoral degrees.

Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) established in New York as a splinter group of the male-dominated Art Workers' Coalition (AWC), which refused to expand its protests on behalf of minority artists to include women.

"Black Artists on Art," artists' statements and works of art, compiled by Samella Lewis and Ruth Waddy.

The Black House founded on Rutgers' College Avenue Campus.

African and Afro-American House established at Douglass College, Rutgers, to coordinate cultural programs and provide a residency for Afro-American Studies majors and others.

Women's Liberation Front founded on Rutgers' Newark Campus; images of women and equitable funding for women's sports among concerns.

"The Educated Woman in Literature," taught by English professor Elaine Showalter, offered as first Women's Studies course at Douglass College, Rutgers.

First suit to secure equal job rights for women, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, filed in Toledo, Ohio.

NOW organizes the Women's Strike for Equality on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In New York, 50,000 women march down Fifth Avenue; over 100,000 women demonstrate across the country. Eleanor Holmes Norton, chair of the New York City Commission on Civil Rights, declares that women's rights would be the social movement of the 70s as civil rights was to the 60s.

Feminist newspaper, "Off Our Backs," begins publication.

Robin Morgan edits "Sisterhood Is Powerful"

Shulamith Firestone's "A Dialectic of Sex" published.

Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics" published; 22,000 copies sold in the first month.

New York Ad Hoc Women Artists' Committee emerges from AWC and WAR and begins with protesting the limited number of women represented in the Whitney Annual and in the Whitney Museum's collections. Female representation rises from 5% in 1970 to 22% in 1971 annual exhibition.

Los Angeles Council of Women Artists (LACWA) organizes to protest exclusion of women artists from the important "Art and Technology" show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). An analysis of the museum's exhibition record reveals that of 53 one-artist shows hosted by the museum, only one was dedicated to a woman; photographer Dorothea Lange.

Faith Ringgold and daughter, Michele Wallace, found Women, Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation (WSABAL), fostering the black art movement.

In California, Judy Chicago teaches separate women's studio art classes at Fresno State.

Kate Millett speaks at Rutgers' Douglass College, suggesting it become the radical feminist school on the east coast.

Rutgers Douglass College students organize a feminist group with a non-hierarchical structure, "XX," to inform peers of discrimination facing women.

Supreme Court rules that employers may not refuse to hire women merely because they have small children.

In Washington, the National Press Club votes to end a ban on women members.

National Women's Political Caucus is founded in New York City.

Judy Chicago establishes Feminist Art Program at California State University, Fresno.

Joan Snyder begins Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series of exhibitions at Rutgers; the longest continuously running exhibition venue for women artists.

"Where We At," exhibition and organization of black women artists, founded by Faith Ringgold, Kay Brown, Jerrolyn Crooks, Pat Davis, Mai Mai Leabua, Dindga McCannon, and others.

Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is published in ARTnews.

"Art and Sexual Politics," edited by Thomas B. Hess and Elizabeth C. Baker, is published; it includes Nochlin's essay and responses to it by Elaine de Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Eleanor Antin, Marjorie Strider, and Lynda Benglis.

Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran's anthology "Woman in Sexist Society: Studies of Power and Powerlessness"–which also includes the Linda Nochlin essay–is published.

Lucy Lippard's "Sexual Politics, Art Style" appears in Art in America. "26 Contemporary Women Artists," curated by Lucy Lippard, presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Corcoran Biennial in Washington, DC excludes works by women. Female artists picket, resulting in Corcoran Gallery's offer to host a conference on women in the arts.

Los Angeles Council of Women Artists (LACWA) statistics show less than 1% of the art on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is by women.

In New York, Women in the Arts (WIA) organizes protests against gallery owners who fail to exhibit work by women artists.

Judy Chicago and students join Miriam Schapiro at Cal Arts, expanding the Feminist Art Program. The Women's Design Program at Cal Arts founded by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, with graduate assistant Suzanne Lacy.

West-End Bag (WEB), an international women artists' network, established as a result of a visit by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro to Ellen Lanyon, Lucy Lippard and Marcia Tucker.

"Women in Art Quarterly" founded. Staff rift results in subsequent founding of "The Feminist Art Journal".

"Everywoman" magazine publishes observations by Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, and Faith Wilding on "central cavity" imagery, theorizing a feminine aesthetic.

First statewide feminist conference held in New Jersey.

Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP) established with a Ford Foundation grant as a unit of the Ealeton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, to assist women in public leadership. CAWP was the first unit of an organization or educational institution to collect information about women in politics and government, as well as monitoring their status and prospects.

After attending Ad Hoc Women Artists' Committee meetings, Ce Roser calls informal meeting of female artists, including Buffie Johnson, Alice Neel, and Fay Lansner–who in turn call Elaine de Kooning and Pat Passlof, and so on. Out of these informal meetings a core group forms, calls itself Women in the Arts (WIA), including Cynthia Navaretta, Ce Roser. They hold meetings, publish newsletters, and - among other activities - plan gallery actions against owners who do not exhibit women artists.

President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew re-elected.

Democratic Representative Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African American woman to run for U.S. President in a major party primary.

ERA passes the U.S. Senate by a vote of 84 to 8; 22 states ratify it by end of the year.

Title IX, prohibiting sex discrimination in educational institutions, receives federal monies.

A.I.R. Gallery is begun as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.

First National Conference for Women in the Visual Arts is held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro facilitate the Feminist Art Program at California Institute of the Arts and "Womanhouse," a series of fantasy environments exploring the various personal meanings and gender construction of domestic space.

First issue of the nationally circulated "New Directions for Women," founded and edited by New Jersey resident Paula Kassell.

Chicano artists' group ASCO, founded by Patssi Valdez, Willie Herron, Gronk and Harry Gamboa Jr., "signs" or vandalizes the Los Angeles County Museum of Art protesting the exclusion of Latino and Latina artists in the museum's collections.

Women's Caucus of College Art Association (CAA) founded at annual meeting in San Francisco (later becomes Women's Caucus for Art); Ann Sutherland Harris serves as its first president.

"Feminist Studies: FS" journal edited by a feminist collective

"Ms." magazine commences publication

"The Feminist Art Journal" edited by Cindy Nemser, founded in New York with Pat Mainardi and Irene Moss.

Vice President Sprio T. Agnew resigns; Gerald R. Ford chosen Vice President under the 25th Amendment.

Watergate scandal exposed to public.

Roe v. Wade prompts U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating state laws that restrict abortion during first-trimester pregnancy.

Whitney Biennial includes 52 women artists out of 214 total artists.

"Women Choose Women," an exhibition of women's art organized by Women in the Arts, hosted by the New York Cultural Center.

Across the U.S., women's cooperative galleries and exhibitions spaces open, i.e., Soho 20 in NY; Artemesia and ARC in Chicago; and Womanspace in LA.

Judy Chicago, Arlene Raven, and Sheila de Bretteville found the Feminist Studio Workshop, the first independent feminist art school in the U.S.

The Woman's Building founded in Los Angeles as a center for women's culture.

In New York, Joyce Kozloff and Nancy Spero publish "The Rip-Off File," a newsletter devoted to testimony from women in the arts who experienced serious institutional or personal sexism.

Elsa Honig Fine writes "The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity"; Doris Cole writes "From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture."

Earliest anthology of lesbian poetry and art, "We Are All Lesbians," edited and published by Fran Winant.

June Wayne's essay, "The Male Artist as a Stereotypical Female," appears in Art Journal.

Ten-year retrospective exhibition of Faith Ringgold's works held at Rutgers University Art Gallery.

Sarah Lawrence College offers first graduate program in Women's Studies.

Douglass College, Rutgers, offers a certificate program in Women's Studies.

President Richard M. Nixon resigns. Gerald R. Ford assumes Presidency. Nelson A. Rockefeller selected Vice President under the 25th Amendment.

Oil crisis; double-digit inflation.

NJ resident Millicent Fenwick elected Fifth District Congresswoman; later serves as prototype for Lacey Davenport, a "Doonesbury" cartoon character.

Women's Studies courses are offered by approximately 1,000 U.S. colleges and universities; more than 80 institutions have programs in Women's Studies.

"Quest: A Feminist Quarterly" begins publication. Among founding members is Charlotte Bunch. First issue of SIGNS, edited by Catharine Stimpson, Joan Burstyn and Domna Stanton. All are current or former faculty members at Rutgers University.

Eleanor Tufts writes "Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists."

"Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts," a major art event, is developed by a 100-woman steering committee led by Diane Burko and Cindy Nemser.

Gay Academic Union Conference and Lesbian-Gay Art Show at New York University.

Hera Gallery, women's cooperative, opens in Wakefield, RI.

Douglass College Feminist Collective, part of the Rutgers University Feminist Coalition, organizes to address alienation of women.

Special exhibit of "The Rip-Off File," a "dossier of reports of sexism (rip-offs, put-downs, discrimination) in the Art World and Art Schools," sponsored by the Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers.

Vietnam War ends, U.S. forces evacuate Southeast Asia; 56,559 Americans dead.

In the U.S. Senate, there are no women; in the House of Representatives, 16.

In India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares national emergency and imposes press censorship, moving the 28-year-old democracy toward dictatorship.

Designated the International Year of the Woman by the United Nations; 10-year plan of action is formulated at a U.N. conference in Mexico City.

Women's Caucus of the College Art Association becomes independent and is renamed the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA).

Whitney Biennial includes works by 33 women artists out of 128 total artists.

New York City Lesbian Art collective papers city streets, subways, museums, art schools and women's bars with off-set copies of their artworks, stamped with words "lesbian art;" participants include; Jessica Falkstein, Maxine Fine, Flavia Rando, Ellen Turner and Fran Winant.

Los Angeles League for the Advancement of Lesbianism in the Arts (LALALA) founded.

"Women Artists Newsletter" published in New York; chief editor, Cynthia Navaretta, with contributions by Judy Seigel. The journal's title eventually becomes "Women Artists News."

Douglass College, Rutgers, faculty member Gloria Feman Orenstein's "Review Essay: Art History" published in SIGNS.

Cindy Nemser's "Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists" published.

Training Institute for Sex Desegregation of the Public Schools founded at Douglass College, Rutgers, trains K-12 public school educators in the use of curricular materials free of gender and race biases to abide by Title IX federal mandates.

In L.A., the Woman's Building relocates to 1727 N. Spring Street. Tenants include Womanspace; Feminist Studio Workshop run by historian Arlene Raven, designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and artist Judy Chicago; the co-op galleries Grandview 1 and 2; Sisterhood Bookstore; the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Jimmy Carter elected President; Walter F. Mondale elected Vice President.

In her address to a Ford Foundation-sponsored conference on 'Women and the American Economy,' Betty Friedan says: "The women's movement is only a way-station."

"Women Artists: 1550-1950" opens at the Brooklyn Museum. Organized by LACMA and curated by Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris, introduces Americans to works by Rosalba Carriera, Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffmann, Rachel Ruysch and Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun.

Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (W.A.R.M.) is formed.

"Womanart" magazine published in New York, edited by Ellen Lubell.

"Black Art: An International Review of African American Art" commences publication in LA.

Karen Peterson and J.J. Wilson write "Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century," later developed as a slide set.

Art Journal devotes summer issue to women in art.

Institute for Research on Women (IRW) founded at Douglass College, Rutgers, to facilitate the exchange of ideas among scholars on the various campuses. Sponsoring conferences, lectures and coloquia, the IRW becomes a national leader in advancing scholarship on women and gender.

Judith K. Brodsky, Rutgers faculty member, appointed third national president of the Women's Caucus for Art; Brodsky is the first artist to take on the presidency.

Founding meeting of the NJ Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art convened at Douglass Library, Rutgers.

Whitney Biennial exhibits the works of 9 women artists out of 40 total artists.

"Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics," founded by Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Harmony Hammond, Elizabeth Hess, Joyce Kozloff, Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro and May Stevens.

"Chrysalis," a magazine of women's culture, established at the LA Woman's Building by Sheila de Bretteville, Kirsten Grimstad, Ruth Iskin, Arlene Raven and Susan Rennie. Contributing editors include Mary Daly, Lucy Lippard, Audre Lorde, Linda Nochlin, Gloria Orenstein and Adrienne Rich.

"Womanart" magazine publishes an issue devoted to the question, 'What Ever Happened to the Women Artists' Movement?'

"Muse," a cooperative gallery and women's community center, opens in Philadelphia.

"By Our Own Hands: The Women Artists' Movement, Southern California, 1970-1976" published by Double X; Susana Torre edits "Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective."

Joan Mondale featured as "Washington's 'Joan of Art'" on the cover of ARTnews September issue.

In San Francisco, Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz, and the group Ariadne join organizers to stage one of the first "Take Back the Night" rallies in response to the prevalence of pornography and violence against women.

In Texas, Women & Their Work is founded.

Elsa Honig Fine writes "Women & Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the 20th Century."

"Art: African American," a scholarly survey of African American art history, compiled by Samella Lewis is published.

"A Lesbian Show" exhibition, curated by Harmony Hammond, symposia and cultural events held at New York's 112 Greene Street.

"High Performance" magazine founded by Linda Frye Burnham in LA, providing women performers with increased print exposure.

"Sister Chapel," a collaborative environmental work conceived by Ilise Greenstein to retell the women's version of the creation myth, exhibited in New York; Judy Blum, Martha Eidelheit, Shirley Gorelick, Betty Holliday, Synthia Mailman, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, May Stevens and Sharon Wybrant produce panels for the installation.

Tenth anniversary of the Stonewall Riot marked in NY by thousands of demonstrators.

Founder of Mormons for ERA, Sonia Johnson, tried by the Church of the Latter-Day Saints for her "crime" of supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.

Germaine Greer's "The Obstacle Race" is published.

Whitney Biennial features the works of 18 women artists out of 57 total artists.

Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" goes on national tour of U.S. museums, prompting both controversy and awareness of feminist art.

New Jersey's Anne Martindell begins term of office as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand.

Ronald Reagan elected President; George H. Bush elected Vice President.

Women's Pentagon Action group stages a theatrical protest at the Pentagon following the election of Ronald Reagan as president.

In the U.S. Senate, there are 2 women; in the House of Representatives, 17.

Women comprise 50 percent of the voting delegates at the Democratic Convention, a first for any party's convention.

In Minneapolis, W.A.R.M. (Women's Art Registry of Minnesota) Journal, a quarterly, is founded. On the committee are Elizabeth Erickson, Susan McDonald, and Alice Towle.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, "Woman's Art Journal" (1980-present), a scholarly annual edited by Elsa Honig Fine, commences.

Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman Supreme Court Justice.

Statistics published by NOW reflect American women earning $.59 for every $1 earned by American men.

Cherri Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua edit "This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color."

Whitney Biennial exhibits the works of 15 women artists out of a total of 81 artists.

After a 10-year fight for ratification, the Equal Rights Amendment dies in Congress.

Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC.

National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs reports female participation in interscholastic high school sports increased by 527% in the nine years since Title IX was enacted. However, major inequities exist in funding for college-level women's sports.

Major retrospective of Louise Bourgeois' work at Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Publication of Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), the first anthology of feminist art-historical writings, still in print.

Landmark comparable worth case results in ordering the state of Washington to pay approximately $838 million in raises and back pay to women employees.

Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

Whitney Biennial exhibits the work of 14 women artists out of 46 total artists.

First issue of "Women's Review of Books" published by Wellesley Center for Research on Women.

Moira Roth edits "The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Arts in America, 1970-1980."

Women & Performance journal launched by a group of graduate students in the NYU Department of Performance Studies as a forum for discussion of gender and representation. Over the past 17 years, the journal has grown steadily and is now distributed biannually via bookstores, libraries, and individual subscriptions throughout the US and internationally.

Democratic Party nominates Geraldine Ferraro as its Vice Presidential candidate.

President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. Bush re-elected.

The Museum of Modern Art reopens after a four-year renovation with "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," an exhibition of works by 151 men and 14 women. Members of the New York City chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art, the "Heresies" Collective and the New York Feminist Art Institute protest.

Paula Giddings writes "When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America."

Patricia Bell-Scott and Beverly Guy-Sheftall co-found "SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women," at the suggestion of Ruby Sales.

National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference, "Steering Our Course: Feminist Education in the '80s," held at Douglass College, Rutgers.

Elaine Showalter organizes and conducts National Endowment for the Humanities' Summer Seminar for College Teachers.

"Representative Works, 1971-1984 Women Artists Series" exhibition, curated by Joan Marter and organized under the auspices of the Mabel Smith Douglass Library, presented at the NWSA 1984 Conference in cooperation with Rutgers' Women Artists Series. "Focused Fragments" exhibition presented at the NWSA 1984 Conference in cooperation with the Women's Caucus for Art/NJ.

"Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches of America, 1807-1822" exhibition curated by Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes and Ferris Olin at Rutgers' Zimmerli Art Museum.

In 1984, Judy K. Collischan Van Wagner published "Women Shaping Art"
which included essays based on interviews with women critics and
dealers. Among the dealers were Betty Parsons, Holly Solomon, Paula Cooper, and Virginia Zabriskie.
Among the critics were Lucy Lippard, Dore Ashton, April Kingsley, Grace
Glueck, Cindy Nemser, and Katherine Kuh.

In the United States Senate, there are 2 women; in the House of Representatives, 20.

EMILY'S List, a fund-raising network for electing Democratic women to the Senate, established. (Acronym stands for "Early Money Is Like Yeast").

Whitney Biennial contains 13 women artists out of 52 total artists.

Guerilla Girls, women artists who call themselves the "conscience of the art world," organize in Manhattan and distribute informational materials in Soho and appear on talk panels wearing gorilla masks to protect their anonymity. Their census of galleries shows that fewer than 10% of artists exhibited in 1984 were women.

Women's Caucus for Art and "SIGNS" records donated to Rutgers University Libraries.

Ford Foundation publishes a report on the status of Women's Studies, "Women's Studies in the United States," by Catharine R. Stimpson with Nina Kressner Cobb.

On Harvard University's 350th anniversary, women represent only 7% of its tenured faculty.

"Grit Kallin Fischer: Bauhaus and Other Works" exhibited at the Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers.

National March for Lesbian and Gay Rights held in Washington, DC, with 600,000 protestors participating; "The NAMES Project Memorial Quilt," commemorating AIDS dead, exhibited on the Capitol Mall.

National Museum of Women in the Arts established by Wilhelmina Cole Holladay in Washington, DC.

Whitney Biennial includes 9 women artists out of 44 total artists.

"The Feminist Critique of Art History," an essay by Thalia Gouma-Peterson and Patricia Matthews appears in "Art Bulletin."

Women's Studies Quarterly publishes a special feature, "Teaching About Women and the Visual Arts."

George H. Bush elected President; Dan Quayle elected Vice President.

"Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology" edited by Arlene Raven, Cassandra L. Langer, and Joanna Frueh.

"Autobiography: In Her Own Image," a major exhbition featuring 20 women artists of color, curated by Howardena Pindell, at the Intar Gallery, New York. Catalog essays by Moira Roth and Judith Wilson.

Students protest work by artist Vida Hackman in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers. The work examines "the destructive power of symbols used for propaganda" and includes a swastika. In addition, university police decide that the carborundum-coated rifle in the exhibit must be removed because of the "threat" it poses.

Jesse Helms, conservative Republican senator, attacks the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), attempting to prevent NEA funding of  artists Karen Finley, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andres Serrano.

"Time" magazine cover story, "Women Face the 90's," examines the future of feminism. Polls featured in the article show that 94% of female respondents believe "the movement has helped women become more independent"; 86% believe "the movement has given women more control over their lives"; 84% believe "the movement is still improving the lives of women."

Number of women in the Whitney Biennial is 30 out of 76 artists.

"Coast to Coast: A Women of Color National Artist's Book Project," an exhibition devoted to artists' books that relate images, ideas and concerns of Hispanic, Native American, Middle and Far Eastern and African women, presented by The Center for Book Arts, New York City.

Major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe's work sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

"Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985" exhibition tours nationally; exhibition catalog, compiled by Randy Rosen and Catherine C. Brawer, published.

Artist Jenny Holzer is the first woman to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale.

"Mademoiselle" magazine asks, "Is Sisterhood Still Powerful?"; "Newsweek" features "The Failure of Feminism"; and the "New York Times" declares "Feminism, a Dirty Word."

Charlotte Rubinstein writes "American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions; Women, Art, and Society" published by Whitney Chadwick.

Pam Gregg curates "All But the Obvious: A Program of Lesbian Art" at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Crossing Boundaries in Feminist History," is held at Douglass College, Rutgers.

A consortium of NJ women's studies scholars produce "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women," a book, traveling exhibition, and archives on representative and extraordinary New Jersey women born from pre-Colonial times to 1923, the year the ERA was introduced by NJ resident Alice Paul.

Anita Hill testifies before a Senate Subcommittee on sexual harassment by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. She is accused of falsifying the events by Senators Arlen Specter, Alan Simpson and Orrin Hatch. The widely televised hearings provoke controversy over sexual and racial issues.

Whitney Biennial includes 33 women out of 94 total artists.

"Backlash: The Undeclared War on American Women," Susan Faludi's study of antifeminism in the media, is published and becomes a best seller.

Naomi Wolf's "The Beauty Myth" is published.

Art Journal devotes summer issue to "Feminist Art Criticism."

Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts exhibition, "Outrageous Desire: The Politics and Aesthetics of Representation in Recent Works by Gay and Lesbian Artists," in conjunction with Fifth Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, held at New Brunswick campus.

Bill Clinton elected President; Al Gore elected Vice President. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most activist first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt.

Women's Action Coalitions (WAC) is founded in response to the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Throughout the US, women win in the 1992 elections. The percentage of women in congress doubles from 5% to 10%, minority women in Congress increases from 6 to 14 seats, the number of women in the Senate increases from 2 to 6, and 48 women are elected to the House of Representatives; all are pro-choice.

In Los Angeles, riots follow the acquittal of four policemen on trail for the beating of Rodney King, an African-American motorist; 52 people die.

Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard edit "The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History."

New York Feminist Art Institute records donated to Rutgers University Libraries; includes the Women's Art Registry, a collection of slides, resumes addresses and exhibit announcements of women artists, founded by Lucy Lippard and others in the early 1970s.

"Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Retrospective Special 20th Anniversary Exhibit" at Rutgers, features the work of 30 former participants; special issue of "The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries" recounts the series' history and documents the exhibit.

Founding of the Veteran Feminists of America (original name Veterans of Feminist Wars). Founders include: Suzanne Benton, Noreen Connell, Jane Everhart, Janice LaRouche, Joan Michel, Irma Newmark, Mary Orovan, Barbara Rubin, Barbara Seaman, Elayne Snyder, Mary Jean Tully, Mary Vasiliades, Mary Scott Welch, Dell Williams, and Sandy Zwerling.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointed to the US Supreme Court.

Whitney Biennial includes 30 women artists out of 42 total artists.

Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson write "A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present."

Betty Friedan publishes "The Fountain of Age."

"Recovering Histories: Aspects of Contemporary Art in Chile Since 1982" organized by Center for Latino Arts and Culture and Zimmlerli Art Museum at Rutgers.

"The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact" edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard

"New Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action" edited by Arlene Raven, Cassandra I. Langer and Joanna Frueh.

New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Wight Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles exhibit "Bad Girls," a two-part exhibition of feminist art.

"Asia America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art" exhibition curated by Margo Machida at The Asia Society Galleries in New York.

Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum–the first major show of ther sculpture and drawings in nearly 15 years.

"A View of One's Own" exhibition of National Association of Women Artists' Collection shown at Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers.

United Nations sponsors the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, entitled "Women, Power, and Change." The group of nongovernmental organizations is assigned a muddy, unfinished site on the edge of the city, with security forces limiting participation in popular events. The UN issues a final declaration affirming the right of women to decide freely all matters relating to their sexuality and to childbearing; as well as condemning forced sterilizations and abortions.

"Women's Studies: A Retrospective: A Report to the Ford Foundation," by Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Susan Heath.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall edits "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought."

Whitney Biennial exhibits the work of 30 women artists out of 88 total artists.

"Division of Labor: 'Women's Work' in Contemporary Art," an exhibition by feminist artists and others working with domestic themes and materials since the 1960s, sponsored by the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Marilyn Stokstad writes "Art History," an introductory text that integrates women artists and artists of color into a survey of art history.

Lucy Lippard's ground-breaking essays on feminism and multiculturalism, dating from 1970 to the present, published as "The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art."

Guerilla Girls publish "Confessions of the Guerrila Girls."

"In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice" exhibition held at University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, and curated by Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, and Amy Scholder.

"Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's 'Dinner Party' in Feminist Art History," curated by Amelia Jones, exhibited at UCLA's Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.

"How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975," curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin, opens at Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers, and travels throughout New Jersey into 2007.

Installation view of "How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975." photo Jack Abraham.

Lilith, an "independent, Jewish & frankly feminist" magazine, launched in 1976 by a small group of Jewish women journalists and editors, celebrates its 30th anniversary year.

March 23 opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the only such center for feminist art. It features the permanent installation of Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party."

March 23 opening of "Global Feminisms," an international exhibition of contemporary feminist art at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and throughout the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly.

"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," curated by Connie Butler, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, traveling to P.S. 1 in New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington.