Annalisa Cananzi

The Critique of “Sexuo-Economic Relation” and the Technological Emancipation of Women: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Kitchenless Home

Between the 1860s and the First World War, a largely overlooked kitchen debate emerged, in which women, feminists, and reformers across the United States and Europe critically examined the home and domestic labour. Central to this debate was Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose work brings together evolutionary social sci...