Precis

Balducci, Temma. "Revisiting "Womanhouse": Welcome to the (Deconstructed) Dollhouse." Woman's Art Journal 27.2 (2006): 17-23. JSTOR. Web. 4 Jan. 2016.

In “Revisiting WomanHouse: Welcome to the (Deconstructed) Dollhouse” Temma Balducci examines the way the 1971 work Womanhouse created discussion about essential versus constructed gender identity in a time period where essentialism views were most prominent. Balducci supports this thesis by examining the work done in Womanhouse, most specifically The Dollhouse exhibit, and argues it works as a magnification of Womanhouse as a whole, challenging the woman’s role in the home as essentially inherent to gender. Balducci hopes to persuade viewers that Womanhouse was significant in its time by being the beginning of examining gender construction through the use of art parodies. The intended audience of this article are students and scholars that do not consider Womanhouse among progressive feminist works of the 1970’s due to its focus on white middle class feminism.