![]() ![]() ![]() In response to this question, my article investigates two different scales of socialist domesticity - the city and the home - in order to map the instrumental role of the home in the constitution of women’s subjectivity. This image provides a critical point of departure for this enquiry, as it brings to light the question of scale in the socialist project. Puia Hortensia Masichievici, New Housing Blocks. The image thus evokes the encounter between women, domestic architecture, and the socialist state and emphasises the transition to a much larger scale that encompasses both a mass subject and domestic architecture. The curtain, plant, and closed window suggest her care for her home, while her elevated perspective reminds us that she occupies a high-rise, having already appropriated the new way of life. But crucially, the socialist transformation is portrayed through a transition in scale: from inside to outside, from the domestic space of the home to mass urbanism. The woman, whose face we cannot see, seems to represent a collective ideal: the strong arms, short hair with no headscarf, and modern clothes all reveal her to be the new woman who can appropriate the new type of modern domesticity. She is depicted alone, within a rich interior. 1) shows a woman contemplating the city from the window of her socialist home. Puia Hortensia Masichievici’s etching New Housing Blocks of 1959 ( Fig. ![]()
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