Caliban and the Witch

Silvia Federici

Caliban and the Witch
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 November 2021
Pages
400
ISBN
9780241532539

Caliban and the Witch

Silvia Federici

From the peasant revolts to the Great European Witch Hunt - the crushing of occult traditions and women’s reproductive freedom in the transition to capitalism

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.

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