Mariarosa Dalla Costa is professor of Globalization, Human Rights, and the Advancement of Women at the Department of Historical and Political Studies of the University of Padua. An historic figure of international feminism, she had devoted her theoretical and practical efforts to the study of the female condition in capitalist development. She has combined this research with that on social movements organizing around the questions of land, agriculture, fishing, and nutrition. Her book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, co-authored with Selma James (Falling Wall Press, Bristol, 1972) has been translated into six languages. Her writings have been published in various languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. Many of her articles are available in the web journal The Commoner. In 2009, an anthology of her writings, Dinero perlas y flores en la reproduccion feminista was published in Spain by Akal, Madrid. Her English publications include Women, Development and Labor of Reproduction, co-edited with G.F. Dalla Costa (Africa World Press, Trenton, N. J. and Asmara, Eritrea, 1999) and Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women (Autonomedia, New York, 2007). Her most recent books in English are Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen’s Movement (Common Notions, 2014), coauthored with Monica Chilese, and Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal (Common Notions, 2015).