Caliban and the Witch

Name: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
ISBN: 9781570270598

Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici, Laia Bragulat, Inés Moreno López, Edurne Lazkano Ibarbia, Aitor Arruti Rezabal

2021·Nonfiction

History & Politics

class and inequality class struggle colonialism dark gender and sexuality generational saga

“It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda.”
— Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.

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