The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

39 Guests and the 999 Women of Achievement

Pre-History to Decline of Graeco-Roman Civilization

1. PRIMORDIAL GODDESS, symbol of all emergent life representing:

Ajysyt	Ilmatar	Omeciuatl	Aruru	Ninhursaga
Atira	Nammu	Nut	Eurynome	Tefnut
Gaea	Neith	Siva	Gebjon	Tiamat

2. FERTILE GODDESS, symbol of fertility representing:

Bona-Dea Freya Juno Ninti Cardea

Brigid Nerthus Macha Tellus Mater Danu

Hera Madderakka Frija

3. ISHTAR, GREAT GODDESS OF BABYLONIA, giver and taker of life representing:

Arinitti Cybele Aphrodite Anath Hathor

Blodeuwedd Amat-Mamu Cerridwen Baranamtarra Ashtoreth

Inanna Iltani Asherah Kubaba Anahita

Isis Shub-ad of Ur Tanith Astarte Hannahanna

Encheduanna Shibtu

4. KALI, Indian devourer/destroyer goddess representing:

Alukah Tuchulcha Hecate The Norns Hel

Ereshkigal Nephthys The Furies (Erinyes) The Valkyries Rhiannon

Irkalla Arianrhod Coatlicue Morrigan

5. SNAKE GODDESS, embodiment of psychic vision and oracular divination representing:

Ariadne Athene Buto Demeter Pasiphae

Britomartis Kore (Persephone) Europa Chicomecoatl Artemis

Python Rhea Fortuna

6. SOPHIA, abstract female symbol of Wisdom representing:

Arachne Daphne Pythia Hersilia Clytemnestra

Pandora Virginia Vesta Circe Helen of Troy

Sibyl of Cumae Praxagora Camilla Rhea Silva Hecuba

Atalanta Cassandra Antigone Lysistrata

7. AMAZON representing:

Antiope Hippolyta Egee Martesia Orithya

Lampedo Hiera Myrine Penthesilea Eurpyle

Medusa Thalestris

8. HATSHEPSUT, Egyptian pharaoh of XVIII dynasty representing:

Hashop Khuwyt Mentuhetop Mama Oclo Puduchepa

Nefertiti Nofret Dido Naqi'a Semiramis

Tetisheri Bel-Shalti-Narrar Lucretia Nicaula Tanaquil

Tiy Rahonem Makeda Nitocris Phantasia

9. JUDITH, Hebrew heroine representing:

Abigail Witch of Endor Huldah Rachel Jezebel

Esther Naomi Athaliah Sarah Vashti

Zipporah Ruth Maacah Deborah Leah

Lilith Beruriah Eve Miriam Rebekah

10. SAPPHO, Greek poet, fl. 600 B.C. representing:

Amyte Cleobuline Corinna of Tanagro Nossis Timarete

Cresilla Helena Myrtis of Anthedon Kora Nanno

Carmenta Manto Moero of Byzantium Anasandra Praxilla

Erinna Neobule Megalostrata Lalla Penthelia

11. ASPASIA, Greek scholar and philosopher, 470-410 B.C. representing:

Diotima Aristoclea Arete of Cyrene Damo Axiothea

Nicobule Theoclea Aspasia of Athens Phile Aglaonice

Hipparchia Agnodice Telesilla Salpe Elpinice

Leontium Euryleon Hippo Theano Lamia

Perictyone Cynisca

12. BOADACEIA (BOUDICCA), British warrior queen, lst c. A.D. representing:

Basilea Brynhild Medb of Connacht Eachtach Veleda

Artemisia I Chiomara Alexandra of Jerusalem Macha Zenobia

Artemisia II Cleopatra Aretaphila of Cyrene Muirgel Arsinoe II

Cartismandua Cynane Maeve Tomyris Olympias

13. HYPATIA, Roman scholar, mathematician, and philosopher, 370-415, representing:

Aemilia Clodia Cornelia Gracchi Pamphile Barbara

Hestiaea Metrodora Cornelia Scipio Sulpicia Blandina

Laya Hortensia Ima Shalom Agatha Catherine

Epicharis Philotis

Beginning of Christianity to Reformation

13. MARCELLA, teacher and founder of Christian community of women, 325-410, representing:

Agrippina I Caelia Macrina Galla Placidia Julia Domna Julia Maesa

Agrippina II Julia Mamaea Livia Drusilla Octavia Plotina

Porcia Anastasia Dorcas Eustochium Fabiola

Flavia Julia Helena Phoebe Priscilla Lydia Macrina

Marcellina Martha of Bethany Mary of Bethany Mary Magdalene Paula

15. SAINT BRIDGET, matron saint of Ireland, 453-522, representing:

Brigh Brigaid Cambra Martia Proba Basine Eugenia

Genevieve Lucy Maximilla Scholastica Sylvia

Thecla

16. THEODORA, Byzantine Empress, 508-548, representing:

Anna Dalassena Comnena Damelis Eudocia Irene Leoparda

Anna Comnena Olympia Pulcheria Zoe Brunhilde

Theodora II Clotilda Engelberga Maude Radegund

Theodora III Adelaide Theodelinda Aethelburg Aethelflaed

Bertha of England Balthilde Fredegund Wanda Olga

17. HROSVITHA, German poet and dramatist, 935-1002, representing:

Agnes Athanasia Begga Berthildis Bertille

Eanswith Ebba Gertrude of Nivelles Ethelberga Gisela

Lioba Frau Ava Hilda of Whitby Claricia Diemud

Guda Mathilda Gisela of Kerzenbroeck Dhuoda Joanna

Baudonivia Ethylwn Harlind Reinhild Gomlaith Hygeburg

Liadain Lady Uallach Elizabeth Stagel Mabel Bertha

Ende Carcas Bertha of France Eadburga Valada

Aisha Libana Leela of Granada Maryann Thoma

Maria Alphaizuli

18. TROTULA OF SALERNO, Italian physician, author, professor, d. 1097, representing:

Abella of Salerno Etheldreda Constantia Walpurgis Ageltrude Benevento

Francesa of Salerno Urraca Adelberger Angelberga Bertha of Sulzbach

Sarah of St. Gilles Odilla Pope Joan Aloara Theodore the Senatrix

Stephanie de Montaneis Rachel Bettisia Gozzadini

19. ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE, Queen of France and England, 1122-1204, representing:

Virgin Mary Lady Beatrix Almucs de Castenau Tibors Marie de France

Adela of Blois Berenguela Barbe de Verrue Edith Agnes of Poitou

Beatrice de Die Dervorguilla Maria de Ventadorn Failge Adelaide of Susa

Isabella de Forz Lady Godiva Blanche of Castile Hawisa Margaret of Scotland

Margaret of Lincoln Melisande Jeanne of Navarre Sobeya Matilda of Flanders

Mathilde of Tuscany Violante Marie de Champagne Matilda of England

20. HILDEGARDE OF BINGEN, abbess, scientist, scholar, musician, composer, visionary, 1098-1179, representing:

Gertrude of Hackeborn Heloise Agnes d'Harcourt Las Huelgas Gertrude the Great

Mechthild of Magdeburg Cunegund Alpis de Cudot Hersend Catherine of Siena

Elizabeth of Schonau Birgitta Isabel of France Jutta Juliana of Norwich

Mechthild of Hackeborn Loretta Herrad of Lansberg Margaret Finola O'Donnell

Rosalia of Palermo Agnes Theresa of Avila Berengaria Phillipe Auguste

Marguerite of Bourgogne Anna Clare of Assisi Douceline Yvette

Elizabeth Hedwig

21. PETRONILLA DE MEATH, burnt as a witch, d. 1324, representing 300,000-9,000,000 (estimates vary) women exterminated as witches 13th-17th C. including:

Alice Samuel Elizabeth Southern Anna Maria Schwagel Gertrude Svensen Agnes Waterhouse

Jane Weir Geillis Duncan Maria de Zozoya Joan of Arc Catherine Deshayes

Guillemine Jacobe Felicie Angele de La Barthe Goody Glover Margaret of Porete

Pierrone Margaret Jones Margery Jourdemain Ursley Kempe Alice Kyteler

Tituba Agnes Sampson Madelaine de Demandolx Anne Redfearne Maria Salvatori

22. CHRISTINE DE PISAN, professional author 1363-1431, representing:

Isotta Nogarola Francisca de Lebrija Maddalena Buonsignori Margaret Paston Jane Anger

Modesta Pozzo Agnes of Dunbar Teresa de Cartagena Margaret Beaufort Juliana Berners

Rose de Burford Beatrix Galindo Alienor de Poitiers Clara Hatzerlin Ingrida

Margery Kempe Margaret O'Connor Martha Baretskaya Cobhlair Mor Angela Merici

Margaret Roper Anastasia Margareta Karthauiserin Bourgot

23. ISABELLA D'ESTE, Renaissance princess, scholar, patron, musician, 1474-1539, representing:

Catherine Adorni Laura Ammanati Novella d' Andrea Isabella Andreini Marie de Medici

Dorotea Bucca Caterina Cornaro Annabella Drummond Vittoria Colonna Isabella Cortesi

Tullia d'Aragona Alessandra Gi1iani Cassandra Fidelis Elizabetta Gonzoga Laura Cereta

Veronica Gambara Olympia Morata Baptista Malatesta Francesca Caccini Caterina Sforza

Tarquinia Molza Yolanda of Aragon Mahaut of Artois Anne of Brittany Barbara Strozzi

Isabella of Lorraine Lucrezia Borgia Lucrezia Tournabuoni Mathilda of Germany Agnes Sorel

Anne of Beauieu Jeanne de Montfort Gaspara Stampa

24. ELIZABETH R, queen of England, scholar, poet, 1533-1603 representing:

Anne Bacon Georgiana Cavendish Elizabeth Danviers Jane of Southerland Elizabeth Petrovna

Elizabeth Hoby Sarah Jennings Lilliard Catherine II Margaret of Austria Mary Sidney

Grace O'Malley Margaret of Desmond Catharine Fisher Isabella of Castile Jane Weston

Isabella Losa Penette de Guillet Helene Kottauer Kenau Hasselaer Anna Sophia

Gracia Mendesa Mary of Hungary Catherine Pavlovna Jeanne d'Albret Olivia Sabuco

Maria Theresa Maria de Coste Blanche Catherine of Aragon Christina of Sweden Margaret of Navarre

Philippa of Hainault Maria-Christine de Lalaing Isabella de Joya Roseres Margaret of Scandinavia Sophia of Mechlenberg

Jadwiga Elizabeth Lucar Elizabeth Talbot

25. ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, painter, 1590-1642 representing:

Rosalba Carrera Honorata Rodiana Maria Sibylla Merian Elizabeth Farren Fede Galizia

Lavinia Fontana Elizabeth Cheron Properzia de Rossi Marguerite Gerard Judith Leyster

Luisa Roldan Joanna Koerton Marie Champmesle Angelica Kauffmann Rachel Ruysch

Maria de Abarca Leonora Baroni Caterina van Hemessen Adelaide Labille-Guiard Sarah Siddons

Levina Teerling Elisabetta Sirani Sabina von Steinbach Elizabeth Vigee- Lebrun Nell Gwyn

Luiza Todi Sophonisba Anguisola Marie Venier

26. ANNA VAN SCHURMAN, scholar, artist, author, theologian, 1607-1678 representing:

Maria Agnesi Glueckel von Hameln Anne Baynard Susanna Lorantffy Helena Cornaro

Bathsua Makin Barbara Uttman Lucretia Marinelli Jeanne Marie Guyon Anna Amalia

Hannah Wooley Marie de Miramion Mary Astell Maria de Aqreda Anne Askew

Bridget Tott Marianna Alcoforado Isabela Czartoryska Luisa de Carvajal Laura Bassi

Aphra Behn Charitas Pirckheimer Luise Gottsched Bernarda de la Cerda Anne Dacier

Maria le Jars de Gournay Hortensia von Moos Maria Antonia Walpurgis

Seventeenth Century-Present

27. ANNE HUTCHISON, midwife, teacher, heretic 1591-1643, representing:

Helena Blavatsky Anne Bradstreet Mary Baker Eddy Margaret Fell Fox Mary Dyer

Abigail Adams Hannah Ada ms Mary Alexander Penelope Barker Ann Lee

Selina Hastings Susanna Wesley Marie de l’Incarnation Margaret Brent Mary Goddard

Hannah Crocker Judith Murray Catherine Greene Henrietta Johnston Sarah Peale

Margaret Philipse Deborah Sampson Eliza Lucas Pinckney Mercy Otis Warren Molly Pitcher

Mary Bonaventure Phillis Wheatley

28. SACAJAWEA, guide on Lewis & Clark expedition, 1787-1812, representing:

Pocahontas Carlota Matienzo Rosana Chouteau Laura Torres La Malinche

Ehyophsta Mary Musgrove Maria Montoy Martinez Saareda Villanueva Kaahumanu

Wetamoo Sara Winnemuca Juana de la Cruz Maria Bartola Awashonks

Anaconda Isabel Pinochet Josefa de Dominguez Luisa Moreno Xochitl

Capillana Andrea Villarreal Maria del Refugio Ana Betancourt Jovita Idar

Marie Iowa Ojelia Uribe de Acosta Isabel de Guevara Magda Portal Nancy Ward

Maria Luisa Sanchez Candelaria Figueredo Teresa Villarreal

29. CAROLINE HERSCHEL, astronomer, 1750-1848, representing:

Frau Cramer Maria Kirch Emilie du Chatelet Mary Lamb Maria Cunitz

Katherine Bethlen Marie Lavoisier Dorothy Wordsworth Jeanne Dumee Maria Mitchell

Renier Michiel Sophie Germain Baroness de Beausaleil Mary Somerville Mrs. Cellier

Louyse Bourgeois Josephine Kablick Margaret Cavendish Justina Dietrich Anne Halkett

Marie Colinet Hortense Lepaute Annie Jump Cannon Mother Hutton Martha Mears

Anna Manzolini Genevieve d'Arconville Angelique de Coudray Dorothea Leparin-Erxleben Louise Le Gras

Jeanne Mance

30. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, novelist, feminist writer and theoretician, 1759-1797, representing:

Charlotte Corday Marie Tussaud Olympe de Gouges Elizabeth Carter Josefa Amar

Elizabeth Hamilton Mary Monckton Theroigne de Mericourt Mary Radcliffe Jeanne Campan

Elizabeth Montagu Rachel Varnhagen Jeanne Manon Roland Mary Manley Mary Hays

Hannah More Karoline Pichler Germaine de Stael Bridget Bevan Mary Shelley

Leonor d'Almeida Suzanne Necker Yekaterina Dashkova Elizabeth Vesey Ida Pfieffer

Alison Rutherford Isabella Bishop Marie de Lafayette Hester Stanhope Celia Fiennes

Mary Wortley Montagu Jeanne de Pompadour Francoise de Maintenon

31. SOJOURNER TRUTH, abolitionist, feminist, 1797-1883 representing:

Marian Anderson Josephine Baker Mary McLeod Bethune Frances Harper Milla Granson

Edmonia Lewis Harriet Tubman Mary Ann Shadd Cary Prudence Crandall Bessie Smith

Mary Livermore Harriet Beecher Stowe Zora Neale Hurston Margaret Murray Washington Maria Stewart

Sarah Grimke Angelina Grimke Anna Ella Carroll Ida B. Wells

32. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, feminist, author, 1820-1906 representing:

Victoria Woodhull Frances Willard Christabel Pankhurst Caroline Norton Gunda Beeg

Barbara Bodichon Constance Lytton Emmeline Pankhurst Annie Kenney Minna Canth

Kallirhoe Parren Millicent Fawcett Sylvia Pankhurst Frances Wright Amelia Holst

Vida Goldstein Annie Wood Besant Baroness of Adlersparre Augusta Fickert Mary Lee

Carrie Nation Annie Smith Peck Eliska Krasnohorska Lucretia Mott Lucy Stone

Carrie Chapman Catt Mary Church Terrell Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hasta Hansteen Alice Paul

Frederika Bremer Margarete Forchhammer Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Luise Otto-Peter Aletta Jacobs

Adelheid Popp Alice Stone Blackwell Charlotte Perkins Gilman Mary Muller Bertha Lutz

Katherine Sheppard Kathe Schirmacher Frances Power Cobbe Augusta Schmidt Minna Cauer

Alexandra van Grippenberg

33. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, physician, founder of medical school, 1821-1910 representing:

Elizabeth Anderson Emily Blackwell Marie Durocher Edith Cavell Clara Barton

Salomee Halpir Amelia Villa Marie Heim-Vogtlin Marie Duges Marie Bovin

Anna Schabanoff Miranda Stuart Marie La Chapelle Rebecca Lee Mary Walker

Madame A. Milliat Marianne Beth Florence Nightingale Amelia Earhart Marie Curie

Sophie Blanchard Emily Faithfull Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead Charlotte Guest Jane Harrison

Betsy Kjelsberg Belva Lockwood Susan La Flesche Piccotte Marie Popelin Althea Gibson

Margaret Murray Emmy Noether Irene Joliot-Curie Sophia Heath Sonja Henie

Clemence Royer Emilie Snethlage Sofia Kovalevskaya Nathalie Zand Elin Kallio

Babe Didrickson Dorothea von Rodde

34. EMILY DICKINSON, poet, 1830-1886 representing:

Margaret Fuller Elizabeth Bekker Elizabeth Barrett Browning George Sand Fanny Burney

Joanna Baillie Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Druzbacka Jane Austen George Eliot

Bettina von Arnim Frances Brooke Harriet Martineau Anne Clough Anna Karsh

Maria Edgeworth Susanna Rowson Hedwig Nordenflycht Baba Petkova Mary Lyon

Christina Rossetti Hermine Veres Bertha von Suttner Emma Willard Emily Bronte

Albertine Necker de Saussure

35. ETHEL SMYTH, composer, 1858-1944 representing:

Elfrida Andree Fanny Mendelssohn Marguerite-Louise Couperin Amy Beach Antonia Bembo

Faustina Brodoni Margarethe Dessoff Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin Jenny Lind Antonia Brico

Carlotta Ferrari Mary Lou Williams Maria Theresia von Paradis Sophie Drinker Nadia Boulanger

Clara Schumann Wanda Landowska Jeanne Louise Farrenc Rose Mooney Lili Boulanger

Elisabeth de la Guerre

36. MARGARET SANGER, convener of International Birth Control Congress, president of Planned Parenthood, 1879-1966, representing:

Catherine Beecher Helen Keller Sylvia Ashton-Warner Katti Moeler Marie Stopes

Dorothea Dix Margaret Mead Angelica Balabanoff Ruth Benedict Jane Addams

Rachel Katznelson Frances Perkins Yekaterina Breshovskaya Rachel Carson Golda Meir

Maria Montessori Jeanette Rankin Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Elizabeth Fry Vera Figner

Eleanor Roosevelt Henrietta Szold Aleksandra Kollontay Ellen Richards Mary Jones

Dolores Ibarruri Inesse Armand Nadezhda Krupskaya Emma Goldman Louise Michel

Rosa Luxemburg Federica Montseny Augustina Saragossa Emma Paterson Beatrice Webb

Sofia Perovskaya Hannah Senesh Vera Zasulich Gabrielle Petit Clara Zetkin

37. NATALIE BARNEY, writer, aphorist, lesbian feminist, 1876-1972 representing:

Romaine Brooks Eleanor Butler Lou Andreas Salome Anne Bonney Djuna Barnes

Madeleine de Sable Cristina Trivulzio Madeleine de Scudery Louise Labe Mary Read

Marie de Sevigne Jeanne Recamier Sophie de Condorcet Gertrude Stein Mata Hari

Ninon de L'Enclos Marie du Deffland Catherine de Rambouillet Renee Vivien Marie Salle

Alice Pike Barney Claudine de Tencin Julie de Lespinasse Sarah Ponsonby Marie Geoffrin

Stephanie de Genlis Radclyffe Hall

38. VIRGINIA WOOLF, novelist, critic, feminist theorist, 1882-1941 representing:

Simone de Beauvoir Doris Lessing Adela Zamudio-Ribero Willa Cather Anais Nin

Olive Schreiner Edith Wharton Edna St. Vincent Millay Isak Dinesen Colette

Lorraine Hansberry Selma Lagerlof Emilia Pardo-Bazan Nelly Sachs Karen Horney

Gabriela Mistral Sigrid Undset Vita Sackville-West Edith Sitwell Helen Diner

Agnes Smedley Alfonsina Storni Dorothy Richardson Hannah Arendt Simone Weil

Rebecca West Susanne Langer Mary Esther Harding

39. GEORGIA O'KEEFE, artist, 1887-1980 representing:

Marie Bashkirtsev Sonia Delaunay Natalia Goncharova Rosa Bonheur Emily Carr

Barbara Hepworth Harriet Hosmer Paula Modersohn-Becker Mary Cassatt Maya Deren

Marie Laurencin Berthe Morisot Sophie Taeuber-Arp Hannah Hoch Julia Morgan

Gabriele Munter Louise Nevelson Imogen Cunningham Kathe Kollwitz Eleanora Duse

Augusta Savage Suzanne Valadon Mary Louise McLaughlin Elizabet Ney Edith Evans

Dorothy Arzner Gertrude Kasebier Martha Graham Julia Cameron Frida Kahlo

Dorothea Lange Sarah Bernhardt Ida Kaminska Eileen Gray Anna Pavlova

Katharine Hepburn Isadora Duncan Sophia Haydn