Mariarosa Dalla Costa
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Mariarosa Dalla Costa (born 1943 in Treviso) is an Italian autonomist feminist and co-author of the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, with Selma James. This text launched the "domestic labour debate" by re-defining housework as reproductive labor necessary to the functioning of capital, rendered invisible by its removal from the wage-relation.
A member of Lotta Femminista, Dalla Costa developed this analysis as an immanent critique of Italian Workerism.[1]
Contents
Works
- The Power of Women & the Subversion of the Community (with Selma James); Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1972
- Women, Development, and Labor of Reproduction: Struggles and Movements (edited with Giovanna F. Dalla Costa); Africa World Press, 1999
- Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women (edited); Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2007
See also
References
- ↑ Wright, Steve. Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism. Sterling: Pluto, 2002. p. 134.
External links
- "Introduction to the Archive of Feminist Struggle for wages for housework. Donation by Mariarosa Dalla Costa", Viewpoint Magazine 5 (October 2015).
- Mariarosa Dalla Costa - Works at Libcom.org
