Revolution at Point Zero (2nd. Edition) by Silvia Federici - ISBN: 9781629637976
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Housework is revolutionary: women’s struggles for a world beyond capitalism.

Revolution at Point Zero (2nd. Edition)

Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    8 October 2020

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Summary

Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain-to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations.

Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionar…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781629637976
ISBN-10:1629637971
Author:Silvia Federici
Publisher:PM Press
Imprint:PM Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:2nd
Release Date:8 October 2020
Weight:260g
Dimensions:25mm x 215mm x 141mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Federici has become a crucial figure for young Marxists, political theorists, and a new generation of feminists.”–Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers

“Federici’s attempt to draw together the work of feminists and activist from different parts of the world and place them in historical context is brave, thought-provoking and timely. Federici’s writing is lucid and her fury palpable.”–Red Pepper

“Real transformations occur when the social relations that make up everyday life change, when there is a revolution within and across the stratifications of the social body…. Silvia Federici offers the kind of revolutionary perspective that is capable of revealing the obstacles that stand in the way of such change.”–Feminist Review

“Reading Federici empowers us to reconnect with what is at the core of human development, women’s labor-intensive caregiving–a radical rethinking of how we live.”–Z Magazine

“It is good to think with Silvia Federici, whose clarity of analysis and passionate vision come through in essays that chronicle enclosure and dispossession, witch-hunting and other assaults against women, in the present, no less than the past. It is even better to act armed with her insights.”–Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

About The Author

Silvia Federici

Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the Wages for Housework campaign. Her books include Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women. She is a professor emerita at Hofstra University, where she taught in the social sciences. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years and was also the cofounder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.

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