Hull-House and occupational therapy as art activism in the feminist struggle

Abstract

This article aims to make visible, disseminate and recover the history of the Hull-House, as a unique reference in the struggle for citizens' rights. It is through the artistic processes linked to Occupational Therapy when the feminist Jane Addams develops the Hull-House project as a democratization of a political-cultural model through the arts. We propose a critical reflection on the ethnographic analysis of the photographic archive linked to the Hull-House project. This research allowed us to tell a story made invisible due to the colonialist hegemony in the field of Occupational Therapy, very restricted in its clinical and reductionist aspect. Thus, we propose a rediscovery of the therapeutic origins in Occupational herapy through artistic activism as one of the backbones of the Hull-House.