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More on Wollstonecraft & The Dinner Party

If you’re interested in reading more of Wollstonecraft’s “Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” the full text is available (in a variety of formats) here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420

Today in class we looked at Mary Wollstonecraft’s place setting from Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party.”

Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party – Detail Mary Wollstonecraft Placesetting

I highly recommend checking out “The Dinner Party” in person if you get a chance–its pretty awesome to see in person, and its on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum (admission is suggested donation, so pay-what-you-can).

You can read more about the whole project here: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/home.php

Browse the various place settings (a few of the other writers we’ll read this semester have place settings too): http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/browse.php

“Crafting the Dinner Party”: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/blog/crafting-dinner-party

Dinner Party