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An influential pamphlet that used a feminist reading of Marx to challenge Left orthodoxy on the role of women, their labour and their struggles.


The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community

(Mariarosa Dalla Costa & Selma James - 1972)


Women and the Subversion of the Community/ A Woman's Place Published by the Falling Wall Press and a group of individuals from the Women's Movement in England and Italy
Printed and bound by Butler and Tanner Ltd., Frome and London, England First edition, October 1972 Second edition, February 1973 Third edition, September 1975 Copyright ©1972 Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
This book has also been published in Italian, German, French and Spanish. ISBN 0 9502702 4 5
Falling Wall Press Ltd. 79 Richmond Rd., Montpelier, Bristol BS6 SEP, England

Maria Dalla Costa :: The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Women and the Subversion of the Community
  • Confirming the myth of female incapacity
  • A. The Productivity of Wage Slavery based on Unwaged Slavery
  • The Refusal to Work
  • B. The Productivity of Passivity
  • Dead Labor and the Agony of Sexuality
  • The "political" attack against women
  • C. The Productivity of Discipline
  • Notes

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