Feminismo y «Autonomia». O de las fecundas consecuencias políticas de una tradición hereje

Abstract

This article asks what new elements of theoretical-political elaboration of Autonomia movement and what practices of militant subjectivation of autonomous feminism in the 1970s are valid for rethinking class-based feminist action. To this end, I offer a reconstruction of the political context of Italian antagonist militancy, an expression of a multiform universe of groups of the extra-parliamentary left in which the formation of a materialist feminist current linked to Autonomia is ascribed. Indeed, the constitution of an autonomous feminist position on social production/reproduction is genealogically articulated in harmony with the «refusal of work» and the emergence of the «social worker» as theorised in those years. In this intervention, I intend to show how the revolutionary subjectivity of autonomous women as well as the forms of women’s resistance elaborated within Autonomia are particularly useful for (re)thinking political practices that find their raison d’être in radical social transformation as a (web)observation of an Italian feminist political experience corroborates.