WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK

ISBN: 9780745338682 Géneros: Sinópsis: Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world But what were its origins In the early 1970s the International Feminist Collective began to organise around the call for recognition of the different forms of labour performed by women They paved the way for the influential and controversial feminist campaign Wages for Housework which made great strides towards driving debates in social reproduction and the gendered aspects of labour Drawing on extensive archival research Louise Toupin looks at the history of this movement between 1972 and 1977 featuring unpublished conversations with some of its founders including Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa as well as activists from Italy Germany Switzerland the United States and Canada Encompassing rich theoretical traditions including autonomism anticolonialism and feminism whilst challenging both classical Marxism and the mainstream womens movement the book highlights the power and originality of the campaign Among their many innovations these pathbreaking activists approached gender sexuality race and class together in a way that anticipated intersectionality and had a radical new understanding of sex work