This collection of essays represents an international, feminist, and non-capitalist approach to the critical global subject of reproductive politics, and as such is a unique contribution to the discourse. Included are essays by:

-Mariarosa Dlla Costa, on the unsustainability of capitalist development, and its doubly felt effects on women.

-Silvia Federici, discussing the New International Division of Labor.

-Alda Britoo da Motta, on the struggles of women domestic workers in Brazil

-Andree Michel, on maldevelopment and women's condition in Algeria.

-Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa, on the condition of women and families in Venezuela.

-C. George Caffentzis, summarizing different approaches to the subject of reproduction and post-1970s feminist theory.

ABOUT THE EDITORS
MARIAROSA DALLA COSTA is associate professor of Political Science and professor of history of the promotion of women's condition at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua (Italy).

GIOVANNA FRANCA DALLA COSTA is professor of sociology and industrial sociology at the Faculty of Psychology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua (Italy).