The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty & Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21st Century
By Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa.
Description
This classic "manifesta" of radical Italian feminism helped define the autonomist-inspired "wages for housework" movement, and identified the capitalist complicity of both the traditional nuclear family as well as the "liberation" of the woman as wage-earner. It is finally available in an English translation. This text poses, at the center of its analysis, the relationship which exists between physical (and specifically sexual) violence against women, and the role of women in performing housework, to which they remain primarily assigned in the global capitalis...
ISBN(s)
1570271321, 9781570271328
