The Great Domestic Revolution

This book offers a history of feminist architecture by looking back at the theories of several American thinkers and theorists (Malusina Fay Pierce, Mary Livermore, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, etc.) who applied from the 19th century that the full assumption of domestic work by the women was one of the fundamental causes of gender inequality. Great Domestic Revolution Shows Innovative Plans and Strategies visionary women who have helped to challenge our way of to design modern housing and cities to support women towards greater economic independence and thus enabling equality social. In this book, Dolores Hayden analyzes utopian sources and pragmatics of domestic reorganization programs proposed in the 19th century by some feminists and highlights class, race and gender conflicts. genre they encountered. This story of an intellectual tradition little known in France offers a new interpretation of the history of feminism, housing and urban planning. The author shows how political ideology defended by these early feminists led them, from the 19th century century, to design innovative physical spaces to create cooperatives housewives, houses without kitchens, daycare centers, kitchens shared and community dining rooms. In recalling these first feminist struggles for environmental and economic transformation of the American society, Dolores Hayden highlights the contradictions fundamental economic and spatial aspects than certain forms of housing outdated (individual housing in particular) or community services inadequate (absence or shortage of daycare centers for example) create, today again, for women – an observation which echoes the resurgence of interest in community living or shared residences in early 2020s.