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Selma James (born Selma Deitch; formerly Weinstein; August 15, 1930) is an American writer, and feminist and social activist who is co-author of the women's movement book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (with Mariarosa Dalla Costa), co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike.
In 1977, two years after Black Women for Wages for Housework was formed in New York there was a split. The WFH group in New York which Silvia Federici had formed dissolved in 1977. [citation needed] The Italian Padua group led by Dalla Costa, who was close to Federici, left the IWFHC and dissolved not long after. Dalla Costa has blamed the ...
Mariarosa Dalla Costa (born 1943) is an Italian autonomist feminist and co-author of the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, with Selma James. This text launched the "domestic labour debate" by re-defining housework as reproductive labor necessary to the functioning of capital, rendered invisible by its removal from ...
Silvia Federici (born 1942) is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York. [2] She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. [3] She also taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria from 1984 to 1986. [4]
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In 1956, James married Selma Weinstein (née Deitch), who had been a young member of the Johnson–Forest Tendency; [63] they remained close political colleagues for more than 25 years, but divorced in 1980. She is best known as one of the founders of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. [63]
Selma Blair was spotted out about about in L.A. with boyfriend David Lyons wearing a sheer polka-dot dress styled with handmade jute rope flats. The incredibly chic sandals, by Nomadic State of ...
The International Wages for Housework Campaign was a global, social movement co-founded in 1972 in Padua, Italy, by author and activist Selma James. The Campaign was formed to raise awareness of how housework and childcare are the base of all industrial work and to stake the claim that these unavoidable tasks should be compensated as paid, wage ...