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Review: Caliban and the Witch
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Tuesday September 12, 2006 14:54 by Tobie - WSM
women, the body and primitive accumulation Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch; Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation” does a fantastic job of taking the feminist analysis of the body and re-conceptualizing it within a class struggle understanding of history. She fills in the blanks that a traditional left analysis has missed, including the concepts of difference, women, race and the body. This work is very important, allowing feminists and socialists alike to realize that identity and class struggle are not polar opposite theoretical understandings Federici’s background comes from Italian Autonomous Marxism, from her comrades in the Midnight Notes Collective on the US East Coast, and past influences including Maria Rosa Della Costa - author of “The power of Women and the Subversion of the Community” (1971) and Selma James author of “Sex, Race and Class” (1971). She was in the wages for housework movement that discussed how capital was dependent on domestic labour and developed the understanding that patriarchy worked alongside capitalism to enslave women. She also spent time in Nigeria working on issues of development and feminism which resulted in her writing many works on globalization, structural adjustment and the IMF. These experiences put her in a good position to have an insight on a society that was forced to move from communal living to that of capitalism. This book is her project to express an understanding of women’s position in our society and the effects of globalisation and imperialism. |
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Jump To Comment: 1The book jumps back and forth in both time and place
Is the ancient world covered at all or does her analysis start with feudalism? Also, what were the reasons for persecuting men as witches? Nicely written review. Thanks.