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This article traces the ways in which Charlotte Perkins Gilman explores the possibility of rebuilding and reforming the domestic and private spaces, and as its consequence, of construction of experimental urban communities. Starting with her most famous short story “The Yellow Wall-paper,” this study reads Women and Economics, The Home: Its Work and Influence, and other fictions from the journal Forerunner, focusing Gilman’s ideas of reformation of general feeling concerning the domestic spaces in order to achieve the liberation of women that will necessarily yield the common good as well as the private good. As a member of the material feminists who saw that a collectively innovative architecture would be important to the empowerment of women, Gilman claims that the apartment as a new urban community does not need an individual kitchen in each housing for which will be substituted by communal kitchens that would serve excellent meals by professional social workers. Gilman’s ideas of socialization of domestic labor and provision of day nurseries and kindergartens in the apartments are currently realized in our society, but without the crux, the reformation of gendered domestic spaces that will lead to the achievement of common weal in the ideal feminist cities.
