Focus on The Dinner Party and discuss the Women represented in the place settings.
The first wing of the triangular table has place settings for female figures from the goddesses of prehistory through to Hypatia at the time of the Roman Empire. This section covers the emergence and decline of the Classical world.
The second wing begins with Marcella and covers the rise of Christianity. It concludes with Anna van Schurman in the seventeenth century at the time of the Restoration.
The third wing represents the Age of Revolution. It begins with Anne Hutchinson and moves through the twentieth century to the final places paying tribute to Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe.
The 39 women with places at the table are:
Marcella Georgia O'Keeffe Anna van Schurman Age of Revolution Virginia Woolf Christianity prehistory Roman Empire Hypatia Classical world Anne Hutchinson