Abstrakt: | This article’s aim is an attempt at discussing the notion of reproductive
work/labour pondered over by female representatives of Italian autonomism and also
eminent in Luce Irigaray’s philosophy. By pointing to the said relationship between
Irigaray’s thought and Italian feminist movements, the author indicates the missing
link in feminist historiography, referring feminist thought back to the origins of Marxist
philosophy. Following the trail of thought of both the feminist female theoreticians and
Luce Irigaray, the author proves that through regaining the significance of reproductive
work/labour playing crucial role in patriarchal-capitalist economy, it is actually possible to redefine the gender distribution of labour/work based on exploitation of women
in economic, social, political, and cultural dimension. Putting sexuate difference to
the eponymous work would, therefore, involve intertwining those two programmes:
Irigaray’s philosophy and Italian autonomism, accompanied by a political programme
per se, which would transform social relations between men and women,
thereby creating new worlds and new relations. |