Leopoldina Fortunati

The Arcana of Reproduction (eBook, ePUB)

Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital
Übersetzer: Austin, Arlen; Colantuono, Sara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839767418
• Artikelnr.: 73134218

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Silvia Federici
Translators’ Note Arlen Austin and Sara Colantuono
Introduction
Part I
1. Production and Reproduction: The Apparent Antithesis of the Capitalist
Mode of Production
2. ‘The Kingdom of Nature’, or the Reproduction of the Individual as Labour
Power
3. The Capitalist Form of the Man/Woman Relationship
4. Housewives, Prostitutes and Workers: Their Exchanges
5. In the Sphere of Circulation . . .
6. The Hidden Abode: On the Domestic Working Process as a Process of
Valorisation
7. Revising Marx’s Chapter on Surplus Value: Correcting the Map of
Exploitation
Part II
8. The Labour of Reproduction Is Productive
9. The Doppelcharakter of Reproductive Labour
10. This Strange Form of Absolute Surplus Value
11. The Family as a Form of Capitalist Development
12. Capitalist Accumulation and Population
13. For a Workers’ History of Reproduction
Afterword: Reading L’Arcano Today: 1981 to 2025
Index