'Perché ripubblicare i documenti più significativi di Potere femminile e sovversione sociale a cinquant'anni dalla prima edizione che aprì il dibattito internazionale sul lavoro domestico e ne costituì una pietra miliare? L'interesse di una tale operazione non è commemorativo né puramente archivistico. Non si tratta soltanto di rimettere in circolazione materiale politico di un fecondo periodo di trasformazione sociale, che pur sarebbe di per sé cosa meritoria visto l'oblio in cui per decenni sono cadute queste analisi. La sua riedizione punta soprattutto a rendere disponibili nel dibattito contemporaneo femminista (e non solo) i materiali fondativi di un'esperienza militante tanto prolifica quanto attuale, che ha portato in primo piano il valore produttivo della riproduzione e svelato l'inganno della naturalizzazione, ovvero del considerare naturale il rapporto delle donne con il lavoro domestico e di cura. Si tratta di un'esperienza di respiro internazionale, raccolta attorno al Collettivo internazionale femminista (costituito a Padova nel 1972) e alla campagna per il Salario al lavoro domestico che, per dare battaglia alle forme materiali dello sfruttamento e della subordinazione delle donne, ha riletto criticamente l'analisi marxiana dello sviluppo capitalistico' (Anna Curcio).

Written in the ten years following the publication of The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community (1972) and the international organizing efforts of the Wages for Housework Campaign, Mariarosa Dalla Costa's Family, Welfare, and the State reflects on the history of struggles around the New Deal in which workers' initiatives forced a new relationship with the state on the terrain of social reproduction. Were the New Deal and the institutions of the welfare state the saviors of the working class or were they the destroyers of its self-reproducing capacity?

By analyzing the relationship of women and the state, Dalla Costa offers a comprehensive reading of the welfare system through the dynamics of resistance and struggle, the willingness and reluctance to work inside and outside the home, and the relationship with the relief structures that women expressed in the United States during the Great Depression.

Three decades later, revisiting the origins of this system on a sociopolitical level--its policies governing race, class, and family relations, especially in terms of the role that was delegated to women's labor power--remains vital for a deeper understanding of the historical relationship between women and the state, crisis and resistance, and possibilities for class autonomy.

Our Mother Ocean tells the story of the Global Fishermen's Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its crucial role in the global movement against neoliberal capitalism. In a time of profound economic and ecological crisis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese offer a long-overdue reminder that the ocean is an integral terrain of struggle for the preservation of dignity and life.

The authors draw attention to the polyvalent functions of the ocean as a source of food, medicine, raw materials, biodiversity and culture; and also as a site of human labour, livelihood, and culture threatened by industrial fishing and tourism that distorts landscapes, depletes fish stocks, and destroys natural barriers for the protection against climate disaster. Their perspective is both practical and theoretical, exploring the related issues of globalization, development, work, and food, and illuminates strategic connections between those struggling for social justice in the global North and South.

For humanity and against capital, Dalla Costa and Chilese remind us, it is time for love and respect for our mother Ocean.

This text poses, at the centre of its analysis, the relationship which exists between physical (and specifically sexual) violence against women, and the role of women in performing housework, to which they remain primarily assigned in the capitalist division of labour.

Nonfiction. Feminism. Women's Health. Political Science. Translated from the Italian by Danila Obici and Ralph D. Church. The powerful essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in GYNOCIDE examine the historical, legal, ethical, psychological, and medical aspects of deeply sexist practices in defining and treating these issues of contemporary women's health. Contributors draw on the important theoretical insights and perspectives developed in recent decades by radical Italian feminism, revealing the complicity of widespread assumptions about the structures and roles of gender, the nuclear family, educational practices, and the state.