Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Selma James

The Power of Women & the Subversion of Community

This collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist author and activist Mariarosa Dalla Costa. 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. The collection offers both historical and contemporary Marxist feminist analysis of how the reproduction of labour and life functions under capitalism.

A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader

Women and the Subversion of the Community

Η Δυναμη των γυναικων και η κοινωνικη ανατροπη

Written in the ten years following the publication of The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community (1972) and the international organizing efforts of the Wages for Housework Campaign, Mariarosa Dalla Costa's Family, Welfare, and the State reflects on the history of struggles around the New Deal in which workers' initiatives forced a new relationship with the state on the terrain of social reproduction. Were the New Deal and the institutions of the welfare state the saviors of the working class or were they the destroyers of its self-reproducing capacity? By analyzing the relationship of women and the state, Dalla Costa offers a comprehensive reading of the welfare system through the dynamics of resistance and struggle, the willingness and reluctance to work inside and outside the home, and the relationship with the relief structures that women expressed in the United States during the Great Depression. Three decades later, revisiting the origins of this system on a sociopolitical level--its policies governing race, class, and family relations, especially in terms of the role that was delegated to women's labor power--remains vital for a deeper understanding of the historical relationship between women and the state, crisis and resistance, and possibilities for class autonomy.

Between Progressivism and the New Deal

Family, Welfare, and the State

Monica Chilese

The ocean today is a central protagonist in the ongoing battle for life on earth. It is the site of a violent clash between the right to live and the right to profit, as corporate interests enclose the ocean's vast common of living riches through tourism and industrial fishing'distorting landscapes, depleting fish stocks, and destroying barriers to protection against climate disaster. Our Mother Ocean tells the story of the Fisherman's Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its central role in the struggle against neoliberal globalization. Since the 1970s, the Fisherman's Movement has been one of the ocean's closest and most impassioned protectors, raising key questions concerning the relationship between work and the safeguarding of common resources, the provision of community needs and environmental limits of the devastating industrialization of our oceans. While a remarkable political awareness has spread over the last 40 years around questions of food, agriculture and land, the issues of the sea have remained concealed, despite the protracted struggles between fish workers and those who oversee the sector and the exploitation of the ocean's resources. In this crucial intervention, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese offer the ocean to the land-locked history of food sovereignty movements led primarily workers in the global South against dispossession. Dalla Costa and Chilese draw attention to the polyvalent functions of the ocean as a source of food, medicine, raw materials, biodiversity and culture'and as a site of human labour and livelihood threatened by vast enclosures through industrial fishing and tourism. This book is an urgent reminder that the ocean is today the site of a heroic struggle for the preservation of life on earth. It points crucially to impassioned sectors of the movement of movements that endure in the global South, and details the stakes of the struggles and its outcomes on land and at sea as central for the future of life on earth.

Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen's Movement

Our Mother Ocean

Virginie Despentes

Simone de Beauvoir

Angela Y. Davis

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Olympe de Gouges

Clara Zetkin

Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen

Alexandra Kollontai

Julieta Paredes

EZLN

Zohra Drif

Maria Galindo

belle hooks

Madeleine Vernet

Ungleiche Geschlechterverhältnisse sind noch immer tief in unsere Gesellschaft eingeschrieben. Der Kampf für die Befreiung der Frau von patriarchaler Unterdrückung, wirtschaftlicher Abhängigkeit und Sexismus sowie für soziale Gleichheit steht nach wie vor auf der Tagesordnung jeder wahrhaften emanzipativen und progressiven Bewegung. Die Wiener Forscherin Julia Harnoncourt versammelt in ihrem Band "Für die Befreiung der Frau" Schriften und Analysen von Aktivistinnen und Theoretikerinnen aus zwei Jahrhunderten des Kampfes. Von den Kämpferinnen der ArbeiterInnenbewegung bis zu den Feministinnen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, von der afroamerikanischen Frauenbewegung bis zu den Vertreterinnen des Globalen Südens, von Clara Zetkin und Simone de Beauvoir bis zur Zweiten Frauenbewegung der 1970er Jahre wird versucht, möglichst viele verschiedene Analyse- und Lösungsansätze zu Wort kommen zu lassen. So zum Beispiel die Frage nach biologischem und sozialem Geschlecht oder nach gerechter Verteilung. Ein weiteres wichtiges Thema ist das Verhältnis von Frauen zur Arbeit, wobei Haus- und Pflegearbeit besonders kontrovers diskutiert wird. Der Slogan "Das Private ist politisch" betrifft nicht nur die Hausarbeit, sondern auch den weiblichen Körper, Liebe und Sexualität. Im Kampf gegen die Ungleichheit stellt sich schließlich auch die Frage, mit wem überhaupt zusammen gekämpft werden kann. Können Männer die Interessen von Frauen vertreten? Und können von Rassismus oder globaler Ungleichheit betroffene Frauen mit weißen Frauen aus dem Norden gemeinsam um ihre Rechte kämpfen, wenn alle unterschiedliche Erfahrungen machen? Das Buch "Befreiung der Frau" versammelt verschiedene Perspektiven und Antworten aus unterschiedlichen feministischen Kämpfen und Regionen der Welt.

Texte zur Geschichte eines weltweiten Kampfes

Befreiung der Frau

Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all.

Between Progressivism and the New Deal, Second Edition

questioni e lotte del movimento dei pescatori

Nostra madre oceano

Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa

A follow up to Paying the Price, this volume of,essays represents an international, feminist, and,non-capitalistic approach to the critical subject,of reproductive politics.

Struggles and Movements

Women, Development, and Labor of Reproduction

Famiglia, welfare e stato tra progressismo e New Deal

A superb introduction to the prospect of opening our idea of the working class to include non-waged workers, specifically women who work in the home. A simple idea with profound revolutionary consequences. If the workers of the world are not all in the factory, and are not all men, where does that leave us?

The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community

Apasionante recorrido por la historia del feminismo de los últimos cuarenta años y los nuevos paradigmas de comprensión de la realidad social, que desemboca en una crítica y análisis de los procesos de reproducción social, de la crisis de la sociedad del capital y de las luchas de las mujeres del sur global por mantener las condiciones ecológicas que garanticen su supervivencia.

Dinero, perlas y flores en la reproducción feminista

Mariarosa Dalla Costa

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