Calibano e la strega. Le donne, il corpo e l'accumulazione originaria

It's pretty hard for me to give a book five stars and I'm tempted to give that to Caliban. I recently read this with some of my friends in a reading group and not only really enjoyed it, but it made me rethink a number of concepts (primarily feminist ones) that I had earlier written off, as well as i Leggi tutto

Me encantó! Aunque pasé la mitad del tiempo queriendo empezar una revolución. Me gusta mucho como va preparando el terreno, contando cómo fueron cambiando las cosas en las tierras primero comunitarias, que después fueron privatizadas, y el lugar que tenían las mujeres en los movimientos herejes. Al Leggi tutto

1) oops now all i want to talk about is the enclosures of the commons 2) funny how i really like marxist analysis now and again, mostly when applied to factors marxists (in my experience) seriously downplay. such as "slavery, without which capitalism would never have gotten off the ground, but like w Leggi tutto

Super interesting book about the transition from feudalism to capitalism and how capitalism intersected with the witch hunts to oppress and demonize women. As I read more about capitalism, I find it such an injustice that I did not learn more about it in high school or even college (though I recogni Leggi tutto

Terza rilettura, è uno dei miei saggi preferiti e ogni volta trovo incredibile la connessione politica, storica e sociale del lavoro di Federici.

In Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici offers a fascinating and horrible analysis of the Middle Ages through Feminist, Marxist, and Foucauldian lenses, attempting to recenter the social and sexual subjugation of women as a project essential to the development of Capitalism in a hitherto feudal Eu Leggi tutto

I learned so much! marxist feminism is amazing

I'm kind of obsessed with this book.

I haven't read a book this fascinating for a while. Federici looks at the hundreds of thousands of women who were murdered in Europe in the 16th century after being accused of being witches and shows how this was because of the transition to capitalism and the need to destroy the solidarity between