Background
Costa, Mariarosa Dalla was born on April 28, 1943 in Treviso, Italy. Daughter of Francesco and Maria (Ghidelli) Dalla Costa.
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Our Mother Ocean tells the story of the Global Fishermens Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its crucial role in the global movement against neoliberal capitalism. In a time of profound economic and ecological crisis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese offer a long-overdue reminder that the ocean is an integral terrain of struggle for the preservation of dignity and life.
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(A superb introduction to the prospect of opening our idea...)
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?
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(How much of contemporary medical practice still derives f...)
How much of contemporary medical practice still derives from a practice rooted in the witch-hunts that plagued Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, and burned at the stake, after horrible torture, hundreds of thousands of midwives and healers along with other poor women - the greatest sexocide in recorded history? Women's bodies and their medical knowledge were burned on those stakes to be replaced by a male "science" and a male gynecological profession controlled by the state and church. Has history run its course? Or, among the many reasons given today for hysterectomies, does its abuse still conceal, more or less covertly, a yearning for male domination over women's bodies that reaches this most lethal form of conquest because it expropriates and destroys what makes a body a woman's body? The essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in Gynocide examine the historical, legal, ethical, psychological and medical aspects of deeply sexist practices in defining and treating issues of contemporary women's health. Contributors draw on the important theoretical perspectives developed in recent years by radical Italian feminism, revealing the complicity of widespread assumptions about the structures and roles of gender, the nuclear family, educational practices, and the state. Translated from the Italian.
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Costa, Mariarosa Dalla was born on April 28, 1943 in Treviso, Italy. Daughter of Francesco and Maria (Ghidelli) Dalla Costa.
Laurea, University Padua, Italy, 1967.
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.
(How much of contemporary medical practice still derives f...)
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A member of Lotta Femminista, Dalla Costa developed this analysis as an immanent critique of Italian Workerism.
Leading role Wages Housework Movement.