Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Mariarosa Dalla Costa is an Italian autonomist feminist and co-author of the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, with Selma James. 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 Lotta Femminista, Dalla Costa developed this analysis as an immanent critique of Italian Workerism.^[1]

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

External links

• Mariarosa Dalla Costa - Works at Libcom.org

See also

• Leopoldina Fortunati
• Maria Mies
• Silvia Federici

References