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Calibán y la bruja.second-hand

by Silvia Federici

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Published by Traficantes de Sueños · History and archaeology · ISBN 9788496453517

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A 2004 essay by the Italian-American intellectual Silvia Federici on the transition from feudalism to capitalism seen through women's lives. Working from feminist and Marxist traditions, it revisits Marx's idea of primitive accumulation and argues that the witch hunts served to reshape the family and women's place, in a violent process that also included the enclosure of common land and the conquest of the Americas.

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Who it's for
For readers of history, feminism and political theory who are ready for a long, documented essay. The title refers to Shakespeare's The Tempest, where Caliban's mother is a witch.
Why people still read it
It is regarded as one of the key works for understanding gender and the family at the origins of capitalism, and a reference point of Marxist feminism.

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