Caliban and the Witch
Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
by Silvia Federici
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appears in Socialism, Sociology, and Politics.
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 witchhunts 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 a...
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appears in Socialism, Sociology, and Politics.
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