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Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Book by Silvia Federici · 5 quotes · Feminism, Feminist Socialism, Socialist Feminism

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“But the main reason why we cannot enjoy the pleasure that sexuality may provide is that for women sex is work. Giving pleasure to man is an essential part of what is expected of every woman.”

Politics Sex Work Feminism

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“Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both working conditions ... but homsexuality is workers' control of production, not the end of work.”

Politics Work Feminism Queer Heterosexuality

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“To say that we want wages for housework is to expose the fact that housework is already money for capital, that capital has made and makes money out of our cooking, smiling, fucking. At the same time, it shows that we have cooked, smiled, fucked throughout the years not because it was easier for us than for anybody else, but because we did not have any other choice. Our faces have become distorted from so much smiling, our feelings have got lost from so much loving, our oversexualization has left us completely desexualized.”

Feminism Gender Inequality Nuclear Family Gender Oppression Emotional Labor Socialist Feminism Feminist Socialism

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“[A] woman, working fulltime in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.”

Feminism Gender Roles Gender Inequality Socialist Feminism Feminist Socialism Domestic Labor Wages For Housework

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“In the name of "class struggle" and "the unified interest of the working class," the Left has always selected certain sectors of the working class as revolutionary subjects and condemned others to a merely supportive role in the struggles these sectors were waging.”

Feminism Socialism Working Class Socialist Feminism Feminist Socialism

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