About this title: 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 ...
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Edition: 1st MIT Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: M I T Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780262580557ISBN:0262580551
Description: Good. 6 x 9 1/2 Inches. 367 pages including index. Small faint (coffee? ) stains on front edge. Edgewear to extremities. Wear to spine ends and corners. Interior clean and tight. Illustrated with Black and white vintage photographs, engravings, floor plans, architect's renderings etc., throughout book. A book about houses and culture and how each affects the other. One of the major works on the history of housing. It discusses "a feminist tradition of home design and community planning...".. ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1982-06-07
ISBN-13:9780262580557ISBN:0262580551
Description: Very Good Text. Paperback in very good condition. Spine is uncreased, binding and text also in very good condition; shelfwear to wraps, price marked off back. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780262580557ISBN:0262580551
Description: Very Good in Paperback jacket. 8vo. pp. 367, b/w sketch illustrations, photographs. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover. read more
Description: Good. 0262580551 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. 0262580551 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"Although its older, this is one of my favorite history books. It tells a different history of domesticity that includes 19th century feminists and reformers."
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