Putting Feminism Back on Its Feet

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ID2929235
AuthorsSilvia Federici (0000-0003-0522-5017, corresponding author)
Year1984
Issue9/10
Pages338
Publication date1984-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Text (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/466587
OpenAlexW2335747150
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Almost fourteen years have passed since I became involved with the women's movement. At first it was with a certain distance. I would go to some meetings but with reservations, since to a politico like I was it seemed difficult to reconcile feminism with a class perspective. Or this at least was the rationale. More likely I was unwilling to accept my identity as a woman after having for years pinned all my hopes on my ability to pass for a man. Two experiences were crucial in my becoming a committed feminist. First my living with Ruth Geller, who has since become a writer and recorded in her Seed of a Woman the beginning of the movement, and who in the typical feminist fashion of the time would continually scorn my enslavement to men. And then my reading Mariarosa Dalla Costa's The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1970), a pamphlet that was to become one of the most controversial feminist documents. At the

Feminism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Political and Economic history of UK and US

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