Caliban and the witch : [women, the body and primitive accumulation] /

Caliban and the witch : [women, the body and primitive accumulation] /

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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 struggle ag...

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Main Author: Federici, Silvia
Corporate Authors: Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund, Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, 2004
Brooklyn, NY : 2004
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Capitalism > Europe > History
Women > Europe > Economic conditions
Women > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
Women > Europe > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600
Women > Europe > Social conditions
Capitalism
Economic conditions
Gender studies
History
Social conditions
Women
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • All the world needs a jolt : social movements and political crisis in medieval Europe
  • The accumulation of labor and the degradation of women : constructing "difference" in the "transition to capitalism"
  • The great caliban : the struggle against the rebel body
  • The great witch-hunt in Europe
  • Colonization and Christianization : caliban and witches in the new world

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