http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2013/07/16/writing-wome…
Discovered via
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-24/News_…
which summarizes: "Writing women back into history: A blog post at the
Brooklyn Museum highlights Alexandra Thom's goal of chronicling all
1,038 women in Judy Chicago's *Dinner Party* on Wikipedia." You can
help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_in_the_Heritage_Floor
I've never seen "The Dinner Party" but I mean to someday, partly because
of my spouse's description: "Judy Chicago's piece is a monument to dead
and mythological heroes, realized in media traditionally associated with
women: ceramics, sewing, weaving, embroidery, lace, and (implied) food.
It serves as a counterweight to all of history's monuments honoring
men." (My spouse wrote a science fiction novel that features "The
Dinner Party".)
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation