ABSTRACT
In Missy Wolf's work the only tools in use are the forceps and they are separating something other than a baby from the womb. Wolf's parody admirably lays waste to such institutionalized machismo with devastating effect. By glamourizing a woman who seemingly and, alarmingly, suffers from the same delightful dysfunctionality as many of her traditionally male counterparts when it comes to outdoor cooking, Wolf takes her discourse in an entirely different direction. The reverse of Wolf's parody is not the sexy woman who seems to mirror male ineptitude. She is the woman who asks instead, what if this image were reversed in another way. A woman covered in symbols of female genitalia. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over two hundred million women worldwide, most of whom were minors at the time, have been violated by the practice of female genital mutilation.
