and activism—about the incarceration system in this country. It is a collection of paintings, photographs, and installation pieces. It opened at the California Institution for Women in 2006 (the first time an outside art exhibition opened in a prison). "Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit" This exhibition features approximately thirty-five pieces of art. Each work of art features a tool that was important for women's domestic labor from the 18th century through World War II. The artists have placed objects such as a dressmaker’s figure, pots, pans, baskets, rolling pins, darning eggs and rug-beaters at the center of their works. According to Solinger, “Many of these old tools facilitated… repetitive labor and evoke the various cultural histories of women’s unpaid, often diminished and disrespected status within the household and society. But in the 21st century, at a moment when ‘old tools’ have become aestheticized and expensive, we can look again and see their costly beauty." Awards In 1992 she won the first Lerner-Scott Award given by the Organization of American Historians for Wake Up Little Susie and in 2000 she received the Catherine Prelinger Award. References Footnotes Sources External links Works by Rickie Solinger in libraries (WorldCat) "Five myths about abortion" by Rickie Solinger in Washington Post Opinions, April 2013 Women United for Justice, Community and Family - Solinger is a founding member 1947 births Living people 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers