The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital by Fortunati, Leopoldina
The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital by Fortunati, Leopoldina

The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital

The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and 'caring' labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s...
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Author: Leopoldina Fortunati
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital by Fortunati, Leopoldina

The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital

$77.51
The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital by Fortunati, Leopoldina

The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital

$77.51
Author: Leopoldina Fortunati
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and 'caring' labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s

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.

Author: Leopoldina Fortunati
Publisher: Verso
Published: 02/25/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781839767401

About the Author
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.
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