Arcana of Reproduction

Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopoldina Fortunati's classic work expands and transforms how we analyze the sphere of reproduction, redefining the value of the individual's life and the labor performed in the home.Released here for the first time in its unabridged form with historical notation and contemporary commentary, The Arcana of Reproduction is a foundational text and essential contribution to today's discussions of social reproduction and the history of Italian feminism. Fortunati's work provides some of the earliest theorizations of 'immaterial,' 'affective,' and 'caring' labor, and of the role of technology in reproduction, articulated decades before their popular reception in English academic literature. Reading this work some 50 years after its original publication gives us the tools to analyze the contemporary state of capitalist development and of women's lives today. The text remains prefigurative and essential in our era of digital labor.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-25
Mått:152 x 231 x 30 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Verso Books
ISBN:9781839767401
Översättare:Arlen Austin, Sara Colantuono

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Marxism och kommunism inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Leopoldina Fortunati was a core member of Lotta Femminsta and the Wages for Housework Movement internationally. Along with Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James and Silvia Federici, she composed many of the group's core theoretical and political texts. Her early work continues to inform movements concerned with struggles over reproduction globally and in subsequent work as a theorist of media and technology, Fortunati has been at the vanguard of contemporary theory addressing the relation between gendered labor and technology.

Recensioner i media

The Arcana of Reproduction is a true tour de force, unique both in the world of Marxism and Feminism. Whereas Marxist-Feminists have generally only elaborated on the significance of Marx's work for understanding women's oppression and exploitation, Fortunati 'sweeps away' our common sense notions of production and reproduction by testing Marxian categories through their unorthodox application to the realm of reproduction. The result is a painstaking analysis that explores these two interlocking spheres as both interdependent and different-radically unsettling our understanding of both.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword | Silvia FedericiTranslators' Note | Arlen Austin and Sara ColantuonoIntroductionPart I1. Production and Reproduction: The Apparent Antithesis of the Capitalist Mode of Production2. 'The Kingdom of Nature', or the Reproduction of the Individual as Labour Power3. The Capitalist Form of the Man/Woman Relationship4. Housewives, Prostitutes and Workers: Their Exchanges5. In the Sphere of Circulation . . .6. The Hidden Abode: On the Domestic Working Process as a Process of Valorisation7. Revising Marx's Chapter on Surplus Value: Correcting the Map of ExploitationPart II8. The Labour of Reproduction Is Productive9. The Doppelcharakter of Reproductive Labour10. This Strange Form of Absolute Surplus Value11. The Family as a Form of Capitalist Development12. Capitalist Accumulation and Population13. For a Workers' History of ReproductionAfterword: Reading L'Arcano Today: 1981 to 2025Index

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