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The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods and Cities

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This book gives the history of how feminist ideas have influenced housing development. The book focuses on both the physical design of housing and the ideas behind those designs for the last two centuries in America. I was surprised to find how we have again and again forgotten what our foremothers (and forefathers) came up with as solutions to the perennial women's issue of combining childcare, housework, and food preparation with working outside the home. Approaches that we think of as new, like co-housing, have been done in the past. We don't always have to invent a new solution, we just have to know better what was tried (successfully or unsuccessfully) before.

A must read for those involved in the development of housing and city planning.

My big concerns were quality of the book and speed of arrival--i was not disappointed on either account.