
This text is an exciting journey through the history of feminism of the last forty years as well as the production of new paradigms to understand social reality. Beginning in line with the feminist struggles of the 1970s, Dalla Costa makes a radical and heterogeneous reading of how the sexual division of work, domestic work and the body of women are key points in the processes of social reproduction, and how invisibility An essential part of women's work is really the infrastructure of capital accumulation. The crisis of domestic work, of the care economy and of the patriarchal family are analyzed in the text in its narrow overlapping with the structures of capitalist power in an increasingly less just and more polarized world. Dalla Costa links this work block with a broader criticism of the new commons of social reproduction, pointing out how in recent decades women have starred in ...read more