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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2023

Room for independence

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Covid-19 lockdowns encouraged us to renew our interest in domestic interiors as privileged spaces not only of invisible labour and inequalities, but also of a contemporary essentialist vision of feminine independence. From Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (Woolf 1929: 4) to Mona Chollet’s Chez-soi (Chollet 2015: 9), feminist writers through the years have highlighted the emancipatory power of an enclosed and controlled environment. However, this chapter questions the transformations of the rhythms of daily life that accompanied the Covid-19 era, and highlighted the domestic sphere as both a space of resistance to gender domination patterns and as a space that perpetuates and enhances these gender inequalities. Focusing on Geneva home-based working women the research unravels the spatial strategies implemented within the home by the inhabitant herself to cope with the overlapping pressures of both productive and reproductive work.
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hal-04132084 , version 1 (02-02-2024)

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Fiona del Puppo, Paule Perron. Room for independence: Home-based women workers and their interiors. INTERIORS IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms, Bloomsbury, 2023. ⟨hal-04132084⟩

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