![]() ![]() 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. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to. 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. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Text anti-copyright 2004 Silvia Federici This text may be freely reproduced for non-commercial purposes. a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomĪ 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. ![]() First published in 2004, Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici is a work well worth revisiting in 2020. Federici has become a crucial figure for. Alexandra Day reviews Silvia Federici’s seminal work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. ![]()
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