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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 ...
Many of these women, including Selma James, [11] Mariarosa Dalla Costa, [12] Brigitte Galtier, and Silvia Federici [13] published a range of sources to promote their message in academic and public domains. Despite beginning as a small group of women in Italy, the Wages for Housework Campaign was successful in mobilizing on an international level.
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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]
The International Feminist Collective was founded in 1972 in Italy by Selma James, Brigitte Galtier, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and Silvia Federici, to promote political debate and action around the issue of housework; the International Wages for Housework Campaign, which grew out of the Collective, was a feminist global social movement founded in ...
Brent Sikkema and artist Kara Walker at the New York City Opera in 2007. A New York man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly hiring someone to kill his estranged husband, a wealthy art dealer, who ...
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