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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.
- Harriet Melusina Fay, February 24, 1836, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- April 28, 1923 (aged 87), Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
Learn about the life and work of Melusina Fay Peirce, an American reformer and feminist who developed a model for cooperative housekeeping in the 1870s. Explore her ideas on the domestic economy, the design of houses, and the role of women in the economy and the community.
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.
Description. 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.
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-
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.
The following summary of the work of Gilman, Melusina Fay Peirce, and Marie Stevens Howland is drawn from Hayden's brilliant analysis of domestic and environmental space.
