Showing posts with label housework. Show all posts
Showing posts with label housework. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Monday, 15 April 2013
Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici
by Marina Vishmidt, Mute Magazine, 7 March 2013
On the occasion of the publication of an anthology of her
writing and the accession of a Wages for
Housework NY archive at Mayday Rooms in London, Marina Vishmidt interviewed
Silvia Federici on her extensive contribution to feminist thought and recent
work on debt activism (with contributions by Mute, Mayday Rooms and George
Caffentzis)
Friday, 14 December 2012
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Revolution at Point Zero
A review of Silvia Federici's anthology, Revolution at Point
Zero, by Joshua Eichen, Mute Magazine
In 2012, we all pay at least lip service to the
entanglements of class, gender, and race when not also struggling to
incorporate other threads into our explanatory frameworks and actions. So when
you come across clarity of vision that precisely explains those relations, one
can only marvel that it was written 37 years ago and try not to be too dismayed
that it isn’t more widely known. Hopefully this new collection of work by
Silvia Federici will change that.
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Women, Race and Class
Angela Davis, 1981, Marxists Internet Archive
The countless chores collectively known as “housework” – cooking, washing dishes, doing laundry, making beds, sweeping, shopping etc. – apparently consume some three to four thousand hours of the average housewife’s year.[1] As startling as this statistic may be, ir does not even account for the constant and unquantifiable attention mothers must give to their children. Just as a woman’s maternal duties are always taken for granted, her never-ending toil as a housewife rarely occasions expressions of appreciation within her family. Housework, after all, is virtually invisible: “No one notices it until it isn’t done – we notice the unmade bed, not the scrubbed and polished floor."[2] Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative – these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
The countless chores collectively known as “housework” – cooking, washing dishes, doing laundry, making beds, sweeping, shopping etc. – apparently consume some three to four thousand hours of the average housewife’s year.[1] As startling as this statistic may be, ir does not even account for the constant and unquantifiable attention mothers must give to their children. Just as a woman’s maternal duties are always taken for granted, her never-ending toil as a housewife rarely occasions expressions of appreciation within her family. Housework, after all, is virtually invisible: “No one notices it until it isn’t done – we notice the unmade bed, not the scrubbed and polished floor."[2] Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative – these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
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