IL FEMMINISMO PER IL SALARIO AL LAVORO DOMESTICO IN ITALIA: GENEALOGIE, PRATICHE E PROSPETTIVE INTERNAZIONALI

This research examines the origins, development, and practices of the Italian Wages for Housework movement, which emerged in the early 1970s and soon acquired a transnational dimension. It investigates how activists within Lotta Femminista and, later, the Network of Committees and Groups for Wages for Housework redefined the notion of “domestic work” shifting it from an invisible, naturalized activity to a political category and a site of mobilization. Drawing on archival materials, printed sources, and oral testimonies, the study reconstructs both theoretical elaborations and political practices, highlighting internal tensions as well as connections with other feminist movements and with the left, particularly the extra-parliamentary. The analysis combines national and international perspectives, showing how Italian claims intersected with experiences in the United Kingdom and the United States. Situating the Wages for Housework movement within the broader historiography of contemporary feminisms, the research places it in the context of the political and cultural transformations of the late twentieth century.