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Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation / Silvia Federici.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin modern classicsPublisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2021Description: 382 pages ; 20 cm; illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780241532539 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.4094 FED 23
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 305.4094 FED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002100610980

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood.

Originally published: New York: Autonomedia, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-367) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972, she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective, which launche dthe Wages for Housework campaign. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti-death penalty movement. She is one of the cofounders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. From 1987 to 2005, she taught international studies, women's studies, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. Her most recent books are Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women and Re-enchanting the World (both 2018).

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