Julie, It's a lot to think about!
Mistral on race is complicated because she's into mestizaje for indios and Hispanics but not for African descendants. Thus she's anti-racist for one group, but racist for another.
Your note on Mistral's immigration policy was news to me--very interesting.
Your comments about women and household work were made extremely forcefully and powerfully in Gilman's seminal work Women and Economics (1898), including the need for work saving machines and restaurants to free women from repetitive household drudgery and cooking. She anticipated the mechanized home and fast food America. However in this same book she make a case for eugenics and the mastery of the white race. This goes very much to your point about early feminism and women of a particular class.
By the way, the first washing machine patent was I think in the 1600s, but the fully automated machine was a mid twentieth century invention--a long time coming!
All Best,
Tony
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