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

Silvia Federici

Penguin Modern Classics

2021

426 páginas

14h 12m

ISBN-10: 1570270597

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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This is a MUST READ!

If you love history and data, this book is for you! Silvia is perfect on given us the background about how was the change from feudalism to capitalism economic system and the role of witch hunt in all of it.