Trabalho de reprodução, bens comuns e relações de gênero: a genealogia do operaísmo feminista
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2025-07-29
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Limone, Raffaella
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This thesis examines the concept of reproduction work through the theoretical framework of Italian operaismo, which pioneered the demand for the possibility of remunerating women's domestic labor. Italian operaismo feminism demonstrated the inseparability of the categories of gender and class, conceiving gender as a class exploited in all dimensions, where women are compelled to sell their care labor through the marriage contract. The methodologically materialist analysis of the 1970s evolved into a genealogical perspective in the 1980s. The conclusion of the first chapter points to the analysis by the Dalla Costa sisters on the forms of manifestation of domestic labor and its underlying socioeconomic and cultural roots. The thesis then focuses on the theoretical perspective developed by Silvia Federici and Leopoldina Fortunati regarding the analysis of the female body in the transition between the Middle Ages and Modernity, its transformation into a reproductive machine through an ideological and repressive apparatus, and the witch hunts as a historical expression of this transformation, connecting them to the philosophical theories of Descartes and Hobbes and the literary figure of Caliban in Shakespeare. Italian operaismo feminism interprets the “surplus” of the non-machine body as corresponding to women's labor in the construction of capitalist society. Thus, through the first and second chapters, the theme of women's domestic labor is described and analyzed within this specific philosophical reflection, considered a genealogical investigation into the female body, its subjugation, and exploitation from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary era. The themes developed by the operaist feminists at the end of the 20th century raise questions concerning the value of cooperation from the perspective of the Commons.
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Feminismo , Marxismo , Trabalho de reprodução , Corpo , Cooperação , Feminism , Marxism , Reproduction work , Body , Cooperation