Women, Development and Labour Reproduction: Issues of Struggles and Movements - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865436223 ISBN 13: 9780865436220

Publisher: Africa World Pr, 1999

Synopsis

This collection of essays represents an international, feminist, and non-capitalist approach to the critical global subject of reproductive politics, and as such is a unique contribution to the discourse.

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About the Author

Mariarosa Dalla Costa is associate professor of Political Science and professor of history of the promotion of women's condition at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua (Italy).

Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa is professor of sociology and industrial sociology at the Faculty of Psychology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua (Italy).

From the Back Cover

This collection of essays represents an international, feminist, and non-capitalist approach to the critical global subject of reproductive politics, and as such is a unique contribution to the discourse. Included are essays by:

-Mariarosa Dalla Costa, on the unsustainability of capitalist development, and its double felt effects on women.

-Silvia Federici, discussing the New International Division of Labor.

-Alda Britoo da Motta, on the struggles of women domestic workers in Brazil

-Andree Michel, on maldevelopment and women's condition in Algeria.

-C. George Caffentzis, summarizing different approaches to the subject of reproduction and post-1970s feminist theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Africa World Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865436223
• ISBN 13: 9780865436220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 197
• Editor: Dalla Costa Mariarosa, Costa Giovanna F. Dalla