# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melusina-fay-peirce
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:54:54.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melusina-fay-peirce"
name: "Melusina Fay Peirce"
slug: "melusina-fay-peirce"
description: "Melusina Fay \"Zina\" Peirce, born Harriet Melusina Fay, was an American feminist, author, teacher, music critic, organizer and activist best known for spearheading the 19th-century \"cooperative housekeeping\" movement. Peirce believed that gender equality would only come with women's economic independence and \"identified the cause of women's economic and intellectual oppression as unpaid, unspecialized domestic work.\" Her proposed solution to this oppression was \"cooperative housekeeping,\" a system where women would do domestic chores together and profit by requesting payment from their husbands. An important component of her plan was the spatial reorganization of neighborhoods and homes to accommodate domestic cooperation between women."
tagline: "American writer and feminist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Co-operative_Housekeeping_How_Not_to_do_it_and_How_to_do_it_cover.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1836-02-24"
deathDate: "1923-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.67
  momentum:             3.709219858156029
  historical:           2.205436
  currentAttention:     16.66666666666666
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melusina_Fay_Peirce"
    title: "Melusina Fay Peirce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melusina_Fay_Peirce"
    title: "Melusina Fay Peirce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16031605"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations