Iris von Roten wrote "Women in the Playpen", a scathing analytical assessment of the Swiss woman's experience in the 1950s. That was just the problem, the Swiss were not used to the biting, witty delivery- especially from a woman. She faced intense backlash and ridicule for the rest of her life for the work, which is now a staple in the feminist literary canon!
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