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Original Title:	Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
ISBN:	1570270597 (ISBN13: 9781570270598)
Edition Language:	English

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

Paperback | Pages: 285 pages

Rating: 4.52 | 3605 Users | 344 Reviews

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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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Title	:	Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Author	:	Silvia Federici
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 285 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2004 by Autonomedia
Categories	:	Feminism. History. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Politics. Theory. Gender

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You know the quote about fish not knowing that they live in water? I cant remember how it goes; memory isnt my strong point. Anyway, Caliban and the Witch was filled with moments of realization that we are indeed fish in water, except our water is capitalism, and as Margaret Thatcher famously said, there is no alternative. Except there was, and at least one hundred thousand women were killed in the process of erasing it. Probably morewho knows? The lack of study on the subject says a lot about

Interesting, but overall unconvincing in its central conceit. The portion of the book reviewing the history of capitalism and witch hunts was fascinating (pun unintended), but its link of the two was more correlation without showing the causation. In a number of places, the author makes claims that the reader is supposed to agree with at face value with only a limited amount of reasoning to back the claims up, probably with the assumption that the evil of capitalism in of itself is self-evident.

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 workers through demonizing women and turning men against them. She also clearly connects this to imperialism. I especially liked how she used both Foucault and Marx and yet makes important criticisms

Who Were the Witches? Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of CapitalismAlex KnightNovember 5, 2009This Halloween season, there is no book I could recommend more highly than Silvia Federicis brilliant Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, which tells the dark saga of the Witch Hunt that consumed Europe for more than 200 years. In uncovering this forgotten history, Federici exposes the origins of capitalism in the heightened oppression of workers (represented by

i took a reeeally long time with this book, and then just went back and re-read all of my highlights and notes. it's been a while since i've read something that i loved this much. this book is an excellent example of history attuned to power relations, which is so important, because this type of work is necessary to understand what's going on right now. and federici emphasizes this-- looking at historical processes of primitive accumulation help to shed light on the same (or similar) processes

I can't believe it took me this long to read this. Everybody should. There is far too much here to even wrap my head around, much less write about. But suffice it to say that understanding how the white supremacist, capitalist, imperialist patriarchy began will help us to undo it.

Probably one of the best books I read this year