ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the history of the site-specific installation Womanhouse by the students in the inaugural class of the Feminist Art Program (FAP) at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). In particular, this chapter focuses on a single room of the installation, The Nurturant Kitchen, a site designed and constructed by Susan Frazier, Vicki Hodgetts, and Robin Weltsch. This chapter considers how these women used the motif of Eggs to Breasts to comment on maternity and the negative connotations of the labors therein. In particular, this chapter considers how the display of breasts in a kitchen—a room designed for feeding or eating—highlights the invisibility of maternal work, including especially the erasure of lactation as a form of labor. As such, this chapter illustrates ways in which feminists of this particular moment were critical of parenthood and the patriarchal implications of its practice.
