Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Italian autonomist Marxist and feminist writer famous for arguing that women's unwaged labour is an essential part of capitalist reproduction, rather than merely an oppression imposed on women by men.
The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo - Mariarosa Dalla Costa
A paper on the history of Italian Marxist feminism given at a seminar on Operaismo ('workerism') held in Rome, June 2002 (3,000 words).
In the 1970’s Italian feminism had two sides: one was self-awareness, the other was the operaista feminism of Lotta Femminista (Feminist struggle) that eventually turned into groups and committees for wages for housework campaigns.
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
An influential pamphlet that used a feminist reading of Marx to challenge Left orthodoxy on the role of women, their labour and their struggles.
Seven Good Reasons to Say "Locality"
Published in 2003.
The Native in Us, the Earth we Belong to
Paper presented at "For Another Europe: The Europe of Movements and of the Class Autonomy" held in Turin, March 1996.
