This theoretical work, placing in gender geography and family geography, aims to open the debate on the critical investigation of the change in use and meaning of public and private space during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Italy (March-April 2020) and of how these changes have affected gender practices. These re-semanticizations have seen the home as place of condensation of various activities and the public space as infected and dangerous. The intention is to retrace the literature that has analyzed these resignifications, and to propose to future studies a focus on how domestic work has been transformed by adopting a gender perspective, investigating how new spatial meanings can pave the way for new typologies of gender performance.