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This essay draws together the work of anti-capitalist feminist theorists, from Silvia Federici and Shulamith Firestone to Emma Heaney and M.E. O’Brien, with archives and memories of my late grandmother’s life. The entanglements of capitalism, gender, labour and love provoke a critical dialectic, centred on the contradictions of lifemaking under capitalism. Historically contingent, muddled and ripe with tensions, this meditation on gender converges around the question of: when is it love? To attempt to disentangle love and labour from the confines and constraints of gender under capitalism is to enter a knotty dialogue that spans our histories, presents and futurepossibilities. This essay is dedicated to the complexities and provocations of life-making labour, particularly as it pertains to relationality, love and gender itself.
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