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By Dolores Hayden

ISBN-10: 0262580551

ISBN-13: 9780262580557

Lengthy earlier than Betty Friedan wrote approximately "the challenge that had no identify" within the female Mystique, a bunch of yank feminists whose leaders incorporated Melusina Fay Peirce, Mary Livermore, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman campaigned opposed to women's isolation in the house and confinement to household lifestyles because the simple reason behind their unequal place in society.The Grand household Revolution finds the leading edge plans and visionary concepts of those power girls, who built the speculation and perform of what Hayden calls "material feminism" in pursuit of monetary independence and social equality. the fabric feminists' bold ambitions of socialized home tasks and baby care intended revolutionizing the yank domestic and growing neighborhood prone. They raised primary questions about the connection of fellows, girls, and kids in commercial society. Hayden analyzes the utopian and pragmatic assets of the feminists' courses for household reorganization and the conflicts over type, race, and gender they encountered.This background of a little-known highbrow culture hard patriarchal notions of "women's position" and "women's paintings" deals a brand new interpretation of the heritage of yankee feminism and a brand new interpretation of the background of yankee housing and concrete layout. Hayden exhibits how the cloth feminists' political ideology led them to layout actual area to create housewives' cooperatives, kitchenless homes, day-care facilities, public kitchens, and group eating halls. of their insistence that girls be paid for household exertions, the fabric feminists received the aid of many suffragists and of novelists similar to Edward Bellamy and William Dean Howells, who helped popularize their reason. Ebenezer Howard, Rudolph Schindler, and Lewis Mumford have been one of several revolutionary architects and planners who promoted the reorganization of housing and neighborhoods round the wishes of hired women.In reevaluating those early feminist plans for the environmental and fiscal transformation of yankee society and in recording the energetic and many-sided arguments that developed round the concerns they raised, Hayden brings to gentle easy financial and spacial contradictions which superseded different types of housing and insufficient group prone nonetheless create for American girls and for his or her households.

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An egalitarian approach to domestic work requires complex decisions about na­ Introduction tional standards versus local control, about general adult participation versus efficient specialization, about individual choice ver­ sus social responsibility. These same dilem­ mas, applied to industrial production, have bedeviled all societies since the Industrial Revolution, so all societies can learn from these debates. Any socialist, feminist so­ ciety of the future will find socializing do­ mestic work at the heart of its concerns, and, along with it, the problem of freedom versus control, for the individual, the fam­ ily, the community, and the nation.

The relative im portance of each of business; domestic economists, the these categories (housewife-employer, nonprofit organization. Each of these tac­ housewife, housewife-entrepreneur, day tics made sense to a constituency desirous worker, and live-in servant) shifted toward of making a particular political point: the housewife who did her own work dur­ housewives are workers; employed women ing the era of industrial capitalism, as are also housewives; production cannot ex­ ist without reproduction; the state must help to create good future citizens through fewer women entered domestic service and man, whose Seven Days a Week gives a services to mothers and their children.

From Siegfried G iedion, Mechaniza­ tion Takes Command. 9 W orkers in hotel kitchen w ith special p repa­ ration areas for vegetables, m eats, an d pastry, New York Daily Graphic, A pril 3, 1878. Such kitchens were eq u ipped w ith special stoves, ket­ tles, an d o th er types of cooking ap p a ratu s u n ­ available to housewives. 20 Introduction Selected Proposals for Socialized Domestic Work, 1834-1926, Classified by Economic Organization and Spatial Location Economic organization and spatial location Neighborhood or residential complex Industrial workplace City Producers’ cooperative Bloomer, late 1850s Peirce, 1868 Howes, 1923 Consumers’ cooperative Beecher and Stowe, 1865 Community dining clubs, 1885-1907 Livermore, 1886 Hull-House, 1887 Willard, 1888 Jane Club, 1893 Howes, 1926 United Workers, 1926 Some cooked food delivery services, 1890-1920 Commercial enterprise Apartment hotels, 1870-1920 C.

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