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Nadia de Mond is a feminist scholar and activist. Her activities include Editor of the Marxist feminist series of magazines “Quaderni viola” 1990-1999, founder in Italy of the World March of Women against violence and poverty. Nadia was also representative of the World March of Women in the Italian, European and World Social Forum and member of the International working group of the Casa delle Donne (Women’s House), participates in the Non Una di Meno movement and was member of the board of the Women’s House in Milan. Further, Nadia De Mond is lecturer at the International Institute for Research and Education (Amsterdam) on gender issues, women’s movements and feminism and member of the IIRE Board from 2023 to 2025.
The contribution, entitled "GENDER AND CLASS, A COMPLEX BUT UNAVOIDABLE RELATIONSHIP ", co-authored by Lidia Cirillo, examines the dynamic nature of Marx's concept of class from two points of view: on the one hand, the place of the proletariat within the capitalist production process – which objectively makes it the privileged actor of the revolution – and, on the other, its subjective nature, that is, its consciousness of itself as a class, acquired through the experience of struggle, antagonistic to the bourgeoisie.
Since the 1970s, the feminist and decolonial movements have criticised a restricted view of Marx – that of his epigones – introducing a broader vision of what constitutes the class antagonistic to capitalism. On the one hand, these movements extend the concept of labour and the generation of value beyond wage earners and, on the other, they focus attention on the processes of subjectivation of other oppressed strata.
The contribution addresses the question of the encounter between Marxism and feminism, arguing that not only feminist analyses and practices that focus on the economy and labour are class struggles, but also everything that questions power relations based on sex and gender.
The encounter between Marxism and feminism does not take place once and for all and requires a redefinition of the terms of cooperation each time. Rethinking the terms of cooperation today means thinking about class not only in relation to the
production process and technical organisation, but also in relation to a culture, values,
sex and gender relations, and a specific historical and political context. Capitalism is therefore articulated in systems of power in which sex and gender relations play a
specific and diversified role in the hierarchisation and division of the workforce. The way in which women perceive themselves and are perceived, the possibility or impossibility of legal
and assisted abortion, and levels of female schooling either enable or hinder capitalist profitability.
Nadia de Mond is a feminist scholar and activist. Her activities include Editor of the Marxist feminist series of magazines “Quaderni viola” 1990-1999, founder in Italy of the World March of Women against violence and poverty. Nadia was also representative of the World March of Women in the Italian, European and World Social Forum and member of the International working group of the Casa delle Donne (Women’s House), participates in the Non Una di Meno movement and was member of the board of the Women’s House in Milan. Further, Nadia De Mond is lecturer at the International Institute for Research and Education (Amsterdam) on gender issues, women’s movements and feminism and member of the IIRE Board from 2023 to 2025.
The contribution, entitled "GENDER AND CLASS, A COMPLEX BUT UNAVOIDABLE RELATIONSHIP ", co-authored by Lidia Cirillo, examines the dynamic nature of Marx's concept of class from two points of view: on the one hand, the place of the proletariat within the capitalist production process – which objectively makes it the privileged actor of the revolution – and, on the other, its subjective nature, that is, its consciousness of itself as a class, acquired through the experience of struggle, antagonistic to the bourgeoisie.
Since the 1970s, the feminist and decolonial movements have criticised a restricted view of Marx – that of his epigones – introducing a broader vision of what constitutes the class antagonistic to capitalism. On the one hand, these movements extend the concept of labour and the generation of value beyond wage earners and, on the other, they focus attention on the processes of subjectivation of other oppressed strata.
The contribution addresses the question of the encounter between Marxism and feminism, arguing that not only feminist analyses and practices that focus on the economy and labour are class struggles, but also everything that questions power relations based on sex and gender.
The encounter between Marxism and feminism does not take place once and for all and requires a redefinition of the terms of cooperation each time. Rethinking the terms of cooperation today means thinking about class not only in relation to the
production process and technical organisation, but also in relation to a culture, values,
sex and gender relations, and a specific historical and political context. Capitalism is therefore articulated in systems of power in which sex and gender relations play a
specific and diversified role in the hierarchisation and division of the workforce. The way in which women perceive themselves and are perceived, the possibility or impossibility of legal
and assisted abortion, and levels of female schooling either enable or hinder capitalist profitability.
