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"Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the most well known American painters, is also considered by some to be the foremother of the feminist art movement."
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"Virginia Woolf is a renowned British novelist associated with the modernist movement in literature; her writing is characterized by experiments in language, narrative, and the treatment of time."
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"Natalie Barney was both a poet and a prose writer, who was famous for her weekly salons, which gathered together many of the twentieth century’s greatest artists and writers from the Western world."
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"Margaret Sanger was an activist who pioneered the fight for American reproductive freedom in the early 20th century."
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"Ethel Smyth was a twentieth-century British composer and a champion of women’s rights and female musicians."
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"Emily Dickinson is considered one of the most famous poets in the history of American literature."
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"In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States."
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"Susan B. Anthony’s life and work offer a glimpse into the extraordinary events of both the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century."
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"Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, was recognized as one of the first people to identify the similarities between the struggles of black slaves and the struggles of women."
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"Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women’s rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most important treatise advocating equality for women."
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"Caroline Herschel was a pioneering female astronomer, and the first woman to discover a comet. Her achievements enabled generations of women to develop a career in the sciences, a field that was once exclusively reserved for men."
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"Sacajawea was an essential member of the expedition to discover routes through the North American West to the Pacific Ocean. Both Native American legend and journals from the Lewis and Clark expedition reference her important contribution."
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"Anne Marbury Hutchinson was a Puritan, who held discussions in her home in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, critiquing the Bible and Puritan laws."
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                                                                                        FROM THE AMERICAN TO THE WOMEN'S REVOLUTION

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                                                                                        FROM THE AMERICAN TO THE WOMEN'S REVOLUTION

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"Anna Maria van Schurman is readily considered the most highly educated woman of the 17th century. She questioned the role that women should play in Dutch society, and her determination to receive an education, along with her achievements, made her stand out from other women of her time."
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"Artemisia Gentileschi was an early Italian Baroque painter, and the only female follower of Caravaggio, whom she worked with in Italy in the early 17th century."
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"Queen Elizabeth I, or Elizabeth R, as she referred to herself, was a revered English queen, and a member of the Tudor family, who ruled over a period of English history often referred to as 'The Golden Age'.”
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"Isabella d’Este (Gonzaga) was a powerful and well-educated political figure, humanitarian, patron of the arts, and mother of seven. Known as “The First Lady of the Renaissance,” she was related to nearly every ruler in Italy either by birth or marriage."
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"Christine de Pisan was a medieval writer and historiographer who advocated for women’s equality... she became the first woman in France, and possibly Europe, to earn a living solely by writing."
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"Petronilla de Meath was the first Irish woman to be burned at the stake for the crime of heresy. She served as a maid to Lady Alice Kyteler, one of the earliest women to be accused of witchcraft."
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"Hildegarde of Bingen, also known as St. Hildegard and the Sybil of the Rhine, was an enormously influential and spiritual woman, who paved the way for other women to succeed in a number of fields from theology to music."
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"Eleanor of Aquitaine served as queen of both France and England in the twelfth century, making her one of the most powerful women of the time."
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"Trotula of Salerno (also known as Trotula of Ruggerio) was an eleventh-century Italian doctor, who is frequently regarded as the world’s first gynecologist."
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"Hrosvitha is the earliest-known woman poet in Germany, and some scholars even consider her the first dramatist, or playwright, since ancient times."
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"Empress Theodora was born into the lowest classes of Byzantine society, eventually advancing to rule over the Byzantine Empire equally with her husband."
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"Saint Bridget of Ireland was a determined, faithful Catholic who was responsible for starting convents and monasteries throughout Ireland."
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"Marcella was a Roman noble woman who was canonized, or declared a saint, by the Vatican for her role in founding the Christian monastic system."
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                                                                           FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE REFORMATION

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                                                                           FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE REFORMATION

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"Hypatia of Alexandria was the first woman to make significant advances in the fields of mathematics and philosophy and was also a respected teacher and astronomer."
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"Boadaceia is one of many spellings for the name of the famous warrior queen from Celtic Britain, who ruled during the first century, when the Roman Empire was growing and taking over many of the area’s Celtic tribes."
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"Aspasia of Miletus was a scholar and philosopher whose intellectual influence distinguished her in Athenian culture, which treated women as second-class citizens during the 5th century B.C.E."
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"Called the Tenth Muse by Plato, Sappho was a prolific poet of ancient Greece. She innovated the form of poetry through her first-person narration ... and by refining the lyric meter."
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"Judith, whose name translates from the Hebrew as “Jewess” or “Praised,” was a widow of noble rank living in the Jewish city of Bethulia during 6th century B.C.E."
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"Hatshepsut reigned over Ancient Egypt as its veritable pharaoh while the official king was still too young to rule effectively. During her reign she adopted a role and title typically reserved for male rulers."
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"According to Greek mythology, the Amazons were warrior women living northeast of Ancient Greece during the later Bronze Age, between approximately 1900 and 1200 B.C.E."
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"Sophia appears at The Dinner Party in the form of a single flower, echoed in both her plate and runner. According to Chicago, Sophia’s presence at the table represents the downfall of female power, particularly religious power."
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"The goddess is thought to have been worshipped in Crete from circa 3000–1100 B.C.E. Early interpretations of her worship, endorsed by Evans, focused on a domestic cult practiced in houses and palaces."
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"Kali’s plate is painted with central core imagery, which is filled with seed forms symbolizing fecundity and referencing Kali’s association with the cycles of nature."
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"Ishtar, called the Queen of Heaven by the people of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), was the most important female deity in their pantheon."
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"The place setting for the Fertile Goddess includes prehistoric elements related to early societal roles for women and to worship of the goddess as the site of birth and nourishment."
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"The Primordial Goddess place setting references early goddess traditions, in which women were creators, associated with the primordial earth."
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                                                                                      WING 1 - FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE

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                                                                                      WING 1 - FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE