Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Content by or about Mariarosa Dalla Costa, 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.

She was a member of Lotta Femminista, and 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.

Portrait photo of Mariarosa Dalla Costa
"From now on, I decide"  今后,我来决定
这篇马克思主义女权理论的经典作品,写于1971年意大利阶级斗争的高潮中,说明妇女的无偿家务如何生产着资本主义积累过程中最昂贵的商品:劳动力(即工人每天去给老板打工的能力),并探讨妇女如何能够利用这一知识去参与阶级斗争,促进能够真正解放妇女的共产主义革命。