Wages for housework : a history of an international feminist movement, 1972-77 / Louise Toupin ; translated by Käthe Roth.

  • Toupin, Louise
Date:
[2018]
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About this work

Also known as

Salaire au travail ménager. English
History of an international feminist movement, 1972-77

Description

Toupin provides an international history of the feminist movement Wages for Housework, drawing on archival research and interviews with the movement's founders and activists from Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Canada. Featuring previously unpublished conversations with Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, the author highlights the power and originality of the movement, detailing its theoretical and organizational innovations around the multifaceted and unrecognized forms of labour performed largely by women. --Adapted from publisher description.

Publication/Creation

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press ; London : Pluto Press, [2018]

Physical description

x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

First English-language edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-314) and index.

Contents

Introduction: a political and personal history -- Part one : The International Feminist Collective : historical overview and political perspective. 1972 : wages for housework in the universe of feminism -- A wage as a lever for power : the political perspective -- The International Feminist Collective, 1972-77 -- Part two : Mobilizations around women's invisible work. Overview Mobilizations around women's invisible work in the home -- Mobilizations around women's invisible work outside the home -- Mobilizations by groups on the periphery of the network -- Conclusion -- Afterword. From yesterday to today: the intellectual journeys of Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Silvia Federici, from 1977 to 2013 -- Interview with Mariarosa Dalla Costa -- Interview with Silvia Federici.

Language note

Translated from the French.

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    History of Medicine
    CBW.U
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ISBN

  • 0745338682
  • 9780745338682