{"id":46615,"date":"2021-04-03T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/produkt\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-silvia-federici\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:56:26","slug":"revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-silvia-federici","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/product\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-silvia-federici\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle – Silvia Federici"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero<\/em> collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women\u2019s struggles on this terrain\u2014to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations.<\/p>\n

Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in \u201calienated labor\u201d is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction.<\/p>\n

Beginning with Federici\u2019s organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons.<\/p>\n

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  • \u201cFinally we have a volume that collects the many essays that over a period of four decades Silvia Federici has written on the question of social reproduction and women\u2019s struggles on this terrain. While providing a powerful history of the changes in the organization of reproductive labor, Revolution at Point Zero<\/em> documents the development of Federici\u2019s thought on some of the most important questions of our time: globalization, gender relations, the construction of new commons.\u201d
    \n\u2014Mariarosa Dalla Costa, coauthor of The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community<\/em> and Our Mother Ocean<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cAs the academy colonizes and tames women\u2019s studies, Silvia Federici speaks the experience of a generation of women for whom politics was raw, passionately lived, often in the shadow of an uncritical Marxism. She spells out the subtle violence of housework and sexual servicing, the futility of equating waged work with emancipation, and the ongoing invisibility of women\u2019s reproductive labors. Under neoliberal globalization women\u2019s exploitation intensifies\u2014in land enclosures, in forced migration, in the crisis of elder care. With ecofeminist thinkers and activists, Federici argues that protecting the means of subsistence now becomes the key terrain of struggle, and she calls on women North and South to join hands in building new commons.\u201d
    \n\u2014Ariel Salleh, author of Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe zero point of revolution is where new social relations first burst forth, from which countless waves ripple outward into other domains. For over thirty years, Silvia Federici has fiercely argued that this zero point cannot have any other location but the sphere of reproduction. It is here that we encounter the most promising battlefield between an outside to capital and a capital that cannot abide by any outsides. This timely collection of her essays reminds us that the shape and form of any revolution are decided in the daily realities and social construction of sex, care, food, love, and health. Women inhabit this zero point neither by choice nor by nature, but simply because they carry the burden of reproduction in a disproportionate manner. Their struggle to take control of this labor is everybody\u2019s struggle, just as capital\u2019s commodification of their demands is everybody\u2019s commodification.\u201d
    \n\u2014Massimo De Angelis, author of The Beginning of History: Values, Struggles, and Global Capital <\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cIn her unfailing generosity of mind, Silvia Federici has offered us yet another brilliant and groundbreaking reflection on how capitalism naturalizes the exploitation of every aspect of women\u2019s productive and reproductive life. Federici theorizes convincingly that, whether in the domestic or public sphere, capital normalizes women\u2019s labor as \u2018housework\u2019 worthy of no economic compensation or social recognition. Such economic and social normalization of capitalist exploitation of women underlies the gender-based violence produced by the neoliberal wars that are ravaging communities around the world, especially in Africa. The intent of such wars is to keep women off the communal lands they care for, while transforming them into refugees in nation-states weakened by the negative effects of neoliberalism. Silvia Federici\u2019s call for ecofeminists\u2019 return to the Commons against Capital is compelling. Revolution at Point Zero <\/em>is a timely release and a must read for scholars and activists concerned with the condition of women around the world.\u201d
    \n\u2014Ousseina D. Alidou, Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA), Director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University and author of Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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