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Key ideas from the book
- Traces changes in the body’s social and political role during the transition to capitalism.
- Connects late medieval peasant revolts with later witch-hunts and social change.
- Examines the rationalization of social reproduction.
- Explores how the disciplining of the body relates to labor power and self-ownership.
- Considers the conflict between body and mind in the development of modern social organization.
About Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici’s work of literary nonfiction examines the history of the body during the transition to capitalism. Moving from late medieval peasant revolts through the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, it considers how social reproduction was reorganized as capitalist society developed.
Federici argues that efforts to discipline the body, and the conflict between body and mind, were bound up with the formation of labor power and self-ownership. This book will interest readers of feminist history, labor history, and critical accounts of capitalism and social organization.
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