The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty & Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Type

Book

Authors

Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa

ISBN 10

1570271321

ISBN 13

9781570271328

Tags

Nonfiction, Parenting & Families, Family Relationships, Social Sciences, Feminist Theory, Abuse, Ideologies & Doctrines

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 capitalist division of labor (and which seeks to define all of their existence). - from Amzon

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