Mariarosa Dalla Costa Author

Mariarosa Dalla Costa is an influential author and militant of international feminism who has devoted her theoretical and practical efforts to the study of the female condition in capitalist development. From Potere Operaio, Lotta Femminista, and the International Wages for Housework Campaign, Dalla Costa has for decades been a central figure in the development of autonomy in a wide range of anti-capitalist movements. Her seminal book The Power of Women and the Subversion Of The Community, co-authored with Selma James, has been translated into six languages. Her writings, reflecting on the role of social reproduction in the organization of autonomy as well as the historic development of capital, have consistently been staged within and through social struggles and movements organizing around the questions of land, agriculture, food, and the commons.