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“Everyday Life”: A Feminist Analysis
Claiming wages for the free labor of reproduction was meant to explode the measurement of wages as such and, with this, bargaining over relations of exploitation. The feminists targeted the myth of the contract.
Simona de Simoni
is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Torino and at Université Paris Ouest. Member of the research laboratory “Sophiapol” (Université Paris Ouest), her work focuses on the relationship between space, politics, and capitalist development with particular attention to the work of Henri Lefebvre and his possible theoretical interaction with Marxist-feminist radical theory and Italian “operaismo,” as well as his influence on contemporary critical geography. Active in feminist and queer movements, she is also a member of a team that promotes political and critical education for high school students in Northern Italy.