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O texto parte de uma analogia entre o movimento zapatista de Chiapas, México e a resistência ecofeminista observada em várias regiões da Ásia e África. O capitalismo, no seu afã de submeter a natureza não poupa o equilíbrio sócio-biológico e a dignidade da força de trabalho, o que se verifica brutalmente nos projetos de "desenvolvimento" para o subcontinente indiano. Neste sentido é que se deve compreender a formulação política alternativa dos novos movimentos sociais do Terceiro Mundo - sobretudo feministas, que se opõem ao modelo de "desenvolvimento" oposto à vida e vêm colocar em questão o próprio trabalho não assalariado de reprodução da força de trabalho. DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCTION Mariarosa Dalla Costa Analogies can be perceived between the Zapatist movement in Chiapas, Mexico, and the ecofeminist resistance observed in various regions of Asia and Africa. Capitalism, in its craving to subdue nature and history, does not spare the socio-biological equilibrium and the dignity of the work force, something which is brutally verified in the projects "of development" of the Indian subcontinent. It is in this sense that the alternative political formulation of the new social movements of the Third World - above all feminine - that are against the model of "development" opposed to life and that have put in question the unpaid work of reproducing the work force, should be understood. Publicação Online do Caderno CRH: http://www.cadernocrh.ufba.br

After a brief mention of the themes prevalent in the feminist movement in various countries, the article focuses on some questions which, starting with the centrality of housework in the feminist debate of the 1970s, formed a leitmotif of that period and the early 1980s: above all, the relationship between, on the one hand, the rejection of work as a political practice theorised, particularly in Italy in the 1970s, as a fundamental instrument of struggle and, on the other, women's availability/unavailability for work. Remaining within an approach which places the stress on women's behaviour, this issue is also analysed in the socio-political context of the early 1980s. Some fundamental moments are identified along the itinerary undertaken by women towards building an identity increasingly independent of a way-of-being functional to the unpaid reproduction of others: not only the rejection of marriage and procreation, but also, under some aspects, the great struggles centering on abortion, lesbianism and prostitution. But if, in this way, women have distanced themselves from a sacrificial role and if, as is happening increasingly with the so-called `technological revolution', the possibilities of reproduction at the mass level are becoming further restricted, what will become of human reproduction? What, the author wonders as a provocation, will become of love?