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Melusina Fay "Zina" Peirce (February 24, 1836 – April 28, 1923), born Harriet Melusina Fay in Burlington, Vermont, was an American feminist, author, teacher, music critic, organizer and activist best known for spearheading the 19th century "cooperative housekeeping" movement.
Learn about Melusina Fay Peirce, a feminist reformer who proposed cooperative housekeeping as a way to free women from domestic drudgery. Explore her biography, writings, patents, and connections to other alternative movements.
Melusina Fay Peirce (writer, social scientist, feminist) developed a cooperative housekeeping model as a solution to reduce the burden of housework for women in order that they could pursue other interests. She used the term 'cooperative housekeeping' for her proposal published in the journal Atlantic Monthly from 1868-69.
Melusina Fay Peirce, founder of the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Cooperative Housekeeping Society which organized a cooperative store, laundry, and bakery near Harvard Square beginning in 1869. Peirce argued for the inclusion of such cooperative facilities in the apartment houses then being designed for middle-class Bostonians, but her practi-
Melusina Fay Peirce was a writer, a social scientist, and a feminist who developed a cooperative housekeeping model as a solution to reduce the burden of housework for women in order that they could pursue other interests.
including, of course, Jane Addams and Melusina Fay Peirce (Charles Sanders Peirce’s fi rst wife and “a pioneer of the cooperative housekeeping movement,” which had its fi rst meeting just down the road from James’s house (81)), and examines his relationship with women friends, relatives, and students. James is depicted here as an ...
18. Feb. 2020 · Melusina Fay Peirce (February 24, 1836 - April 28, 1923) was a feminist, activist, and self-identified sociologist who devoted much of her adult life to the "co-operative housekeeping"...
