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And its failure laid the groundwork of today’s anti-trans backlash.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

Opinions | Covid-19 has made housework more visible, but it still isn’t valued Kevin Sapere A year of the coronavirus pandemic has spurred a new debate about how we divide housework and child rearing. Stories have frequently emerged of children passing by fathers to demand more from overworked and overwhelmed mothers and women at their breaking point. Now, some are calling for recognition of work in the home — from cooking to cleaning to child-care — as work and part of ...

The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew. Silvia FedericiCredit...Sharif Hamza for The New York Times Sections Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor. Silvia FedericiCredit...Sharif Hamza for The New York Times Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, . Prospect Park in May is a commotion of beauty: meadows and dense rambles, hills and hol...

A review of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin by Silvia Federici PM Press 2020 Before history appears on any page, it is written on the bodies of those who live it—as muscle, callous, stretch mark, wound. “The history of the body is the history of human beings,” writes Marxist and feminist scholar Silvia Federici, “for there is no cultural practice that is not first applied to the body.” The history of capitalism...