Mariarosa Dalla Costa
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Mariarosa Dalla Costa
OR:
Mariarosa Dalla Costa on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Mariarosa Dalla Costa (born 1943 in
Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...
) is an Italian
autonomist Autonomism, also known as autonomist Marxism is an anti-capitalist left-wing political and social movement and theory. As a theoretical system, it first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerism (). Later, post-Marxist and anarchist tend ...
feminist and co-author of the classic ''The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community'', with
Selma James Selma James (born Selma Deitch; formerly Weinstein; August 15, 1930) is an American writer, and feminist and social activist who is co-author of the women's movement book ''The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community'' (with Mariarosa ...
. 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 , Dalla Costa developed this analysis as an immanent critique of Italian
Workerism Workerism is a political theory that emphasizes the importance of or glorifies the working class. Workerism, or , was of particular significance in Italian left-wing politics. As revolutionary praxis Workerism (or ) is a political analysis, w ...
. She was a co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, an organisation formed in Padua in 1972 to promote political debate and action around the issue of housework that gave rise to the International Wages for Housework Campaign.


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

*
Wages for housework The International Wages for Housework Campaign (IWFHC) is a grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. It was started in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa,Dalla Costa, M. & James, ...
* Leopoldina Fortunati *
Maria Mies Maria Mies (born 1931, Steffeln, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany) is a German professor of sociology and author of several feminist books, including ''Indian Women and Patriarchy'' (1980), ''Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale'' (1986 ...
*
Silvia Federici Silvia Federici (born in Parma, Italy, 1942) is a scholar, teacher, and feminist activist based in New York. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. She al ...


References


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.orgTribute to Mariarosa Dalla Costa in The Commoner
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dalla Costa, Mariarosa 1943 births Living people Autonomism Italian feminists Italian political scientists University of Padua faculty People from Treviso Italian socialist feminists Women political scientists