Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Mariarosa Dalla Costa (born 1943 in Treviso) is an Italian autonomist feminist and co-author of the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, with Selma James. 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. A member of Lotta Femminista, Dalla Costa developed this analysis as an immanent critique of Italian Workerism.

Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Mariarosa Dalla Costa (born 1943 in Treviso) is an Italian autonomist feminist and co-author of the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, with Selma James. 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. A member of Lotta Femminista, Dalla Costa developed this analysis as an immanent critique of Italian Workerism.