Despite centuries of history and a vast legacy of housing, neighborhood, and city designs, and despite the development of all kinds of technologies and household products, there is one aspect that has been forgotten—not fully addressed, much less resolved—by architects, visionaries, developers, and companies worldwide: domestic labor. In this book, xenofeminist philosopher Helen Hester analyzes the dysfunctionality and implications of the rigid domestic imaginaries of the 20th century—this domestic realism, or the inability to imagine alternatives to our models and aspirations. She looks to the very heart of the domestic sphere to imagine the unthinkable: a Promethean and feminist politics that trusts in automation as a path to emancipation; an architecture designed not to support or conceal labor, but to abolish it—or at least minimize it; and a technology that not only assists, but ...read more







