Question
Feminist art historians like Amelia Jones have criticized Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party in part for the essentialism implied by its representation of women via this imagery. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this organ that inspired the design for many of the place settings at The Dinner Party. Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings are often erroneously thought to represent this female organ.
ANSWER: vagina [accept vulva]
[10h] Alice Walker stated that “[white women] can not imagine black women have vaginas” to criticize the fact that the setting for this woman, the only Black woman seated at The Dinner Party, depicts three faces rather than vaginal imagery.
ANSWER: Sojourner Truth [accept Isabella Baumfree]
[10m] Other critics like Mary Garrard have argued that the sexual imagery of The Dinner Party allows this othering concept to operate. This concept was coined in Laura Mulvey’s 1975 paper “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.”
ANSWER: male gaze
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 50% | 100% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 75% | 38% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell Wind | Rochester C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell Fire | Cornell Earth | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Cornell Wind | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT | Rochester B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rochester A | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |