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

Informationen zum Autor Silvia Federici Klappentext 'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room 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. 'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' Guardian Zusammenfassung 'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room 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. 'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' Guardian ...

Product details

• Authors: Silvia Federici, Federici Silvia
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.07.2021
• EAN: 9780241532539
• ISBN: 978-0-241-53253-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Europe, Capitalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Witchcraft, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, RELIGION / Paganism & Neo-Paganism, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Feminism & feminist theory, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Feminism and feminist theory, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance