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Cet article propose une analyse du travail domestique rémunéré en relation avec le sexage (Guillaumin, 1978), c’est-à-dire le rapport d’appropriation de la classe des femmes par la classe des hommes, en observant également comment ce rapport d’appropriation s’entrecroise avec l’oppression de classe et de race. L’article s’appuie sur les données recueillies lors d’une recherche anthropologique menée au Brésil entre 2013 et 2017, pendant laquelle j’ai interviewé des travailleuses domestiques et des activistes des Syndicats de travailleuses domestiques, dans leur grande majorité noires, d’origine indigène et de classe populaire.Les conditions de travail, ainsi que les revendications des travailleuses domestiques, exposent un mécanisme crucial du sexage : le fait que les femmes ont le statut d’outil d’entretien, statut dont Guillaumin nous rappelle qu’il est constamment non reconnu. Leurs luttes et les obstacles rencontrés démontrent également comment cette appropriation des corps des femmes est traversée par le racisme et les inégalités de classe, en produisant des formes spécifiques d’oppression et des différences dans les conditions de vie des femmes., This article analyses the articulation of paid domestic work and “sexage” (Guillaumin, 1978), that is the relation of appropriation of the whole group (class ?) of women by the whole group of men, paying particular attention to how this relation of appropriation intersects with race and class oppression. The article is based on interviews, collected during a fieldwork in Brazil between 2013 and 2017, with domestic workers and union organizers, working class women mostly black and indigenous descendant.The working conditions of domestic workers and their political battles expose a central trait of “sexage” : the reduction of women to the state of a tool, a state that Guillaumin reminds us is constantly not recognized by society. Domestic workers struggles and the obstacles they faced show as well how this appropriation of women’s body is always intersected with racism and class inequality, and how this intersection produces specific forms of oppression and material differences in women’s lives., Este artículo propone un análisis del trabajo doméstico remunerado en relación con lo sexuado (Guillaumin, 1978). Es decir, la relación de apropiación de clase de mujeres por parte de la relación de clase de hombres, observando de igual manera como esta relación de apropiación se cruza con la de opresión de clase y de raza. El artículo se apoya sobre los datos obtenidos a través de una investigación antropológica realizada en Brasil entre 2013 y 2017, durante la cual entrevisté a las trabajadoras domésticas y a las activistas de los sindicatos de trabajadoras domésticas, dentro de las cuales la mayoría de ellas eran negras, de origen indígena y de clase popular. Las condiciones de trabajo, así como las reivindicaciones de las trabajadoras domésticas, exhiben un mecanismo crucial de lo sexuado : el hecho que las mujeres tengan el status de herramienta de limpieza, status que nos hace recordar Guillaumin, es constantemente no-reconocido. De igual modo, sus luchas y los obstáculos encontrados demuestran cómo esta apropiación del cuerpo de las mujeres esta atravesada por el racismo y las desigualdades de clase, produciendo formas específicas de opresión y de diferentes condiciones de vida de las mujeres.

Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni,with contributions by Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo, with a response from the author., Commenti a “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” di Antonino Colajanni, con contributi di Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo e una risposta dell’autore.

Whiteness, Italianness and Sexist Violence. This essay analyzes how whiteness has been produced and asserted in the terroristic attack occurred in Macerata in 2018 when Luca Traini shot six passersby because of their African origin. The terroristic attack took place a few days after the murder of Pamela Mastropietro – whose dismembered body was also found in Macerata – and a Nigerian man, Innocent Oseghale, was charged with Mastropietro’s murder. I use the notion of ‘cultural archive’ to investigate how racism and the colonial past were and are obscured and therefore evenly reproduced in contemporary Italy, claiming that racism operates transversally in Italian society. The notion of cultural archive is also used to read the meanings embedded in the terroristic attack, interpreting them in relation to the colonial and racist aspects traits of the Italian social fabric. In analyzing the gestures of Traini, the link he made between the murder of Mastropietro, his attack against Black passersby, and the Monument to the Fallen, where he moved after the shooting, I argue that racism and sexist violence are imbricated and reproduced through the valorization enhancement of whiteness as a constitutional trait of Italianness.