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The Grand Domestic Revolution - A History of Feminist Designs For American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (Paperback, New edition)
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The Grand Domestic Revolution - A History of Feminist Designs For American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The MIT Press
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"This is a book that is full of things I have never seen before,
and full of new things to say about things I thought I knew well.
It is a book about houses and about culture and about how each
affects the other, and it must stand as one of the major works on
the history of modern housing." - Paul Goldberger, The New York
Times Book Review Long before Betty Friedan wrote about "the
problem that had no name" in The Feminine Mystique, a group of
American feminists whose leaders included Melusina Fay Peirce, Mary
Livermore, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman campaigned against women's
isolation in the home and confinement to domestic life as the basic
cause of their unequal position in society.The Grand Domestic
Revolution reveals the innovative plans and visionary strategies of
these persistent women, who developed the theory and practice of
what Hayden calls "material feminism" in pursuit of economic
independence and social equality. The material feminists' ambitious
goals of socialized housework and child care meant revolutionizing
the American home and creating community services. They raised
fundamental questions about the relationship of men, women, and
children in industrial society. Hayden analyzes the utopian and
pragmatic sources of the feminists' programs for domestic
reorganization and the conflicts over class, race, and gender they
encountered. This history of a little-known intellectual tradition
challenging patriarchal notions of "women's place" and "women's
work" offers a new interpretation of the history of American
feminism and a new interpretation of the history of American
housing and urban design. Hayden shows how the material feminists'
political ideology led them to design physical space to create
housewives' cooperatives, kitchenless houses, day-care centers,
public kitchens, and community dining halls. In their insistence
that women be paid for domestic labor, the material feminists won
the support of many suffragists and of novelists such as Edward
Bellamy and William Dean Howells, who helped popularize their
cause. Ebenezer Howard, Rudolph Schindler, and Lewis Mumford were
among the many progressive architects and planners who promoted the
reorganization of housing and neighborhoods around the needs of
employed women. In reevaluating these early feminist plans for the
environmental and economic transformation of American society and
in recording the vigorous and many-sided arguments that evolved
around the issues they raised, Hayden brings to light basic
economic and spacial contradictions which outdated forms of housing
and inadequate community services still create for American women
and for their families.
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