Building Domestic Liberty
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Architectural Feminism
Polly Wynn Allen
University of Massachusetts Press, 1988
Building Domestic Liberty offers a critical and admiring analysis of feminist philosopher Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Polly Allen examines Gilman's approach to architecture, landscape, and neighborhood design and discusses Gilman's case against prevailing household design and looks at her philosophy of world improvement.
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