Social Reproduction as work and condition of existence
Interview with Silvia Federici
Abstract
Silvia Federici was born in Parma, Italy, in 1942, and in the 1960s, she moved to the United States, where she later founded, with Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James, the International Feminist Collective, responsible for the global campaign Wages For Housework that claimed wages for housework performed by women without retribution or recognition as a demand of feminist economics. Since then, she has been a central figure in the development of the concept of social reproduction as a key to understanding class relations, exploitation and domination in capitalism. From 1987 to 2005, she was Professor of International Studies, Women's Studies and Philosophy at Hofstra University in the United States, where she is now Professor Emeritus. In this interview, Eliane Gonçalves and Mariana Prandini Assis talked with Silvia Federici about her personal and intellectual trajectory, marxist theory and social reproduction, Simone de Beauvoir, maternity, contemporary emancipatory struggles and feminist cities.
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