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Caliban and the Witch

Silvia Federici

  • 416 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2004
  • 14 editions
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1 About this book

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation is a 2004 book by Italian-American intellectual Silvia Federici. Responding to both feminist and Marxist traditions, the book offers a critical alternative to Karl Marx's theory of primitive accumulation.

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  • History
  • Economic conditions
  • Women, economic conditions
  • Sociology
  • Social conditions
  • Women
  • Capitalism
  • Women, social conditions

2 About Silvia Federici

Born 1942

Silvia Federici (Italian pronunciation:; born April 1942) is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York. She is considered one of the leading theoreticians in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy, and the history and theory of the commons. Her most famous book, Caliban and the Witch (2004), has been translated into numerous languages and adopted in college courses.

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