About Silvia Federici
Italian-American scholar and activist (b. 1942), a co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign in the 1970s and a longtime teacher at Hofstra University. Federici's work fuses Marxism and feminism around the concept of social reproduction, and her historical study Caliban and the Witch made her one of the most widely read feminist theorists of her generation.
Books by Silvia Federici
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
A bold feminist rereading of the birth of capitalism. Federici argues that the transition to capitalism required the violent subjugation of women — above all through the witch hunts — to enclose their bodies and reprodu…
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The sharpest feminist challenge to how we think about work itself. Federici argues that the unpaid 'reproductive' labour of the home — cooking, cleaning, caring, raising the next generation of workers — is the hidden fo…
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