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The Work of Love

The Role of Unpaid Housework as a Condition of Poverty and Violence at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa

With a new Introduction by Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Translated from the Italian by Enda Brophy
This classic “manifesta” of radical Italian feminism helped define the autonomist-inspired “wages for housework” movement, and identified the capitalist complicity of both the traditional nuclear family as well as the “liberation” of the woman as wage-earner. It is finally available in English translation.

Table of Contents

Preface by Enda Brophy ………………………………………………………………..7

Introduction by Mariarosa Dalla Costa ………………………………………….. 11

1. The Woman: Slave or Houseworkwer? ……………………………………… 33

2. Male Physical Violence against Women ……………………………………. 51

3. Rape and Incest ………………………………………………………………………. 69

4. The Role of the State and Male Physical
Violence against Women …………………………… 77

5. The Role of the State with Relation to Rape and Incest ………………. 103

6. Women’s Struggles Against Violence ………………………………………. 107

About the Authors …………………………………………………………………….. 121