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Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77
by Louise Toupin
(Pluto Press, £19.99)
WAGES for Housework looks back to a period of history where radical women were redefining the nature of women’s work and challenging the role of women in a society.
Its author Louise Toupin has produced a global history of the movement, which takes us from Canada, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the US and on to England.
It challenges the overriding view in the 1970s that calling for women’s work in the home to be paid was reactionary and would chain women to the house. Instead, women activists of the period proclaimed that the personal was political.
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