by Angela Woodward

The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital – Leopoldina Fortunati

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In addition to being rigorous, Fortunati’s text is ruthless, stripping away every plank of Marx’s platform to show the underside of labor, the women’s work that wasn’t worth his noting.

Abigail – Magda Szabo

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Szabo’s ABIGAIL is a moral — though not moralizing — book.

Suite for Barbara Loden – Nathalie Léger

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The subdued anguish of the book resonates out from this admission, which seems central to the way violence against women is constituted: we can come to see our own bodies as not worth defending.