THE DOLL REVOLT

The Fluid Tour -- Docents' Talk

Girl morphs out, around, and through her feminine cage . Girl as fluid eludes the hegemony of the feminine by defying its borders, already marked as pink, soft, and pretty.

"It is like a cross-section in a process of change. It is unstable, but it does not flow. It is soft, yielding and compressible. There is no gliding on its surface. Its stickiness is a trap, it clings like a leech; it attacks the boundary between myself and it." (Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo)