Women and the subversion of the community : a Mariarosa Dalla Costa reader : Dalla Costa, Mariarosa, author

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In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women’s struggles and strikes across the world. This collection offers both historical and contemporary Marxist feminist analysis of how the reproduction of labor and life functions under capitalism, using Dalla Costa’s insights into the vibrant and combative women’s movement that emerged in Italy and across the world in the early 1970s. Since the first publication of Women and the Subversion of the Community in 1972, Dalla Costa has been a central figure in the development of autonomist thought. Her detailed research and provocative thinking deepens our understanding of the role of women’s struggles for autonomy and control over their bodies and labor

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface by Harry Cleaver; Introduction by Camille Barbagallo; Preface to the Italian Edition of Women and the Subversion of the Community (March 1972); Women and the Subversion of the Community (1972); On the General Strike (1975); Domestic Labor and the Feminist Movement in Italy since the 1970s (1988); Reproduction and Emigration (1974); Emigration, Immigration, and Class Composition in Italy in the 1970s (1980); Family and Welfare in the New Deal (1985); On Welfare (1977-1978)

Excesses in the Relationship of Women to Medicine: Some History (2005)Women’s Autonomy and Remuneration of Care Work in the New Emergencies of Eldercare (2007); To Whom Does the Body of This Woman Belong? (2007); Workerism, Feminism, and Some United Nations Efforts (2008); Capitalism and Reproduction (1994); The Door to the Garden (2002); Bibliography; Index; About the Authors