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This chapter discusses the activism and writings of Italian autonomist feminists of the 1970s, to ask what contemporary feminism can learn from the struggles of that period. I focus on the interventions of Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Leopoldina Fortunati and Silvia Federici, three of the most radical feminists of the time. Their demands concerning women’s labor and self-determination, as well as their way of operating and living collectively, remain extremely relevant and urgent today, at the time of neoliberalism and of the current global crisis of reproduction.
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Boscagli, M. (2023). Learning from the 1970s: Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home. In: Hecker, S., Ramsey-Portolano, C. (eds) Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14816-3_5
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