In this moment, I would like to meet Silvia Federici. Silvia is a italo-american
writer, professor and feminist activist. She was born in Parma, Italy in 1942 and
moved to the US in 1967 to study philosophy at the University of Buffalo.
I would like to meet Silvia Federici because I would like to talk
about my thesis, that investigates women`s work trajectories. In her
intellectual work, Silvia Federici makes a systematic analysis about the
relations between wage labor, capitalism and house work from a feminist point
of view and concluding that this last one is on the bases of capitalism. She
makes a criticism of Marxism for only valuing wage labor and despises
reproductive work. I think that the intellectual work of Federici is very
interesting and it is a contribution to the discussion on the division sexual
of labor and male domination.
Additionally, Silvia has participated in the feminist movement in the
world since 1970. She has been critical of the use of feminism to deepen neoliberal politics and
nullify the subversive potential of the women´s movement.
At present, Silvia is professor emeritus in Hofstra University, New
York.