Mika Rottenberg is a sculptor and video arts who builds large, complex sets inhabited by women performing illogical, assembly line tasks. In "Dough", for example, a woman in a tiny room smells flowers to induce hay fever. Her tears run down her legs and through a tiny hole in the floor, where other w

Absurd, Architectural, Feminist, Funny, Grotesque, Kinetic, Physical force, Repetitive

18th century literature, 18th century poetry, 19th century theater, Absurd, Avant-garde fashion, Beat poetry, Beautiful , Bloomsbury, Charming, Children's literature, Clever, Elegant, Feminine, Feminist, Funny, Glamour, Ironic

Angry, Feminist, Gritty, Homoerotic, Queer, Sardonic, Social revolution, Visceral

Poet Adrienne Rich grew up in Baltimore and attended Radcliffe College. In 1951, the same year of her college graduation, she received the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for her first book of poetry, A Change of World. She finished her second book, The Diamond Cutters (1955), early on in her

Agitated, Feminist, Pioneering