Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Constructed over five centuries of capitalist hegemony, the devaluation and naturalisation of reproductive work, in all its different (and constantly expanding) aspects, are clearly not amenable to any particular solution, nor can they be addressed by any reform of this work – though both reforms and changes giving women and all non-conforming subjects more power must be an object of struggle. The devaluation of reproduction, which, in essence, is the devaluation of our life, is a structural condition of capitalist accumulation. Fortunati’s analysis in The Arcana of Reproduction – of the capitalist structuring of the family and reproductive work thus continues to be both relevant and necessary.</p><p>As in the 1970s, revealing the extent to which capitalism dominates our lives – and revealing all the unpaid labour that it has extracted from women through the organisation of marriage and the family – is an essential step for forging a feminist political agenda: an agenda not limited to the quest for equality, equal rights or opportunities, but driven by the conviction that, as Fortunati argues throughout The Arcana of Reproduction, women’s liberation can be obtained only through the construction of a society beyond capitalism."</p><p><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/silvia-federici-on-the-arcana-of-reproduction?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_titles_30" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">versobooks.com/blogs/news/silv</span><span class="invisible">ia-federici-on-the-arcana-of-reproduction?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_titles_30</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feminism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Autonomism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autonomism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialReproduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialReproduction</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>