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'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA 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.'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' Guardian

An edited collection Silvia Federici's work, spanning over twenty years, in which she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the 'new enclosures' at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation.

Silvia Federici argues that, no less than the witch hunts in sixteenth and seventeenth century, the new war on women is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation. These processes are founded on the destruction of people's most basic means of reproduction. Like at the dawn of capitalism, what we discover behind today's violence against women are processes of enclosure, land dispossession, and the remoulding of women's reproductive activities and subjectivity. As well as an investigation into the causes of this new violence, the book is also a feminist call to arms.

More than ever, the 'body' is today at the centre of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans and ecological movementsall look at the body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist development has generated and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. Here, Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine.

'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA 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.'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' Guardian

Through personal essays and interviews about what it is like to live as a woman (cis + trans) in the modern world, All of Me includes vulnerable, painful truths and bold inspiration. This anthology is for anyone looking to find inspiration in radical activism, creativity, healing, and more. It covers topics of social and economic justice, creativity, racism, transgender perspectives, sexuality, sex work, addiction and recovery, reproductive rights, assault, relationship dynamics, families, fitting and not fitting in, radical self-care, witchcraft, and more.

Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorising on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain - to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations.

What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism, deconstruction, and other current philosophical schools define themselves as alternatives to, or critiques of, Western Civilization, this book seeks to trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and to examine the reasons for its endurance. It also suggests ways in which proponents of Western Civilization can co-opt ideas from opponents.Written from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, the essays in this volume trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and seek to explode many standing beliefs—primarily those which concern the very existence of a Western tradition. Bound to be controversial, the book will be of interest to scholars and activists in the fields of cultural history, anthropology, and the history of ideas, as well as general readers interested in the enduring discussion of the notion of Western Civilization.

What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism, deconstruction, and other current philosophical schools define themselves as alternatives to, or critiques of, Western Civilization, this book seeks to trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and to examine the reasons for its endurance. It also suggests ways in which proponents of Western Civilization can co-opt ideas from opponents.Written from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, the essays in this volume trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and seek to explode many standing beliefs—primarily those which concern the very existence of a Western tradition. Bound to be controversial, the book will be of interest to scholars and activists in the fields of cultural history, anthropology, and the history of ideas, as well as general readers interested in the enduring discussion of the notion of Western Civilization.

The complexity of African society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on Social Movements and Literature, Social Change and Culture, the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars, writers, and activists concerned with progressive approaches to Africa's dilemmas.Beginning with an overview by anthropologist Cheryl Mwaria, African Visions addresses such issues as structural adjustments, religious freedom, human rights, democratization, educational movements, and health care. Particular analyses consider intellectual property, student activism, and the AIDS epidemic. Mwaria, Federici, and McLaren also explore the way social and cultural questions have been treated in literary works and theoretical studies dealing with hybridity, sexual politics, literacy, socialist orientations, and language. Noted literary scholars Odun Balogun and Alamin Mazrui consider aspects of these issues. The collection also examines trends in literature, publishing, and theater in such countries as Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, and South Africa in relation to themes such as gender, popular culture, African novels, and protest. Highlighting articles by two of Africa's leading activist/writers Dennis Brutus of South Africa, stressing regional cooperation, and Ngûgî wa Thiong'o of Kenya, advocating African languages, African Visions avoids the pessimism associated with numerous 20th century studies. Brutus and Ngûgî consider the economic and cultural effects of globalization and the necessity for promoting self-determination. An essential resource for all scholars and students concerned with contemporary African life and culture.

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream—systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle?Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten.In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.

Federici carefully examines feminist questions and in the process has provided an expansive redefinition of work, class, and class-gender relations. Seeking to delineate the specific character of capitalist 'patriarchalism', this original approach also highlights Marx's and the Marxist tradition's problematic view of industrial production and the State in the struggle for human liberation.

';Here, the treatment of pathologiessuch as cancers or virusesis considered as important as dismantling the causes of pathologies, including the social problems of debt, homelessness, police violence, and isolation. We must grasp how the de-individualization of care, what we might refer to as the communization of care, is central to fighting state and capital's racialized and gendered forms of abandonment.' For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond AusterityReflections from Greece explores the landscape of care spaces coordinated by autonomous collectives in Greece, including clinics, social spaces for health, social kitchens, and safe spaces liberated from the state and capital. The significance of autonomous spaces is intensified in the very moment the state, capital, and their complicit institutions attempt to penetrate their power via austerity and state violence. In tandem with the broader anticapitalist movement, these spaces have ruptured the legitimacy of the state and capital, and reclaimed care beyond the limits of the biomedical, nonprofit, and capitalist frameworks.The experience of Greek autonomous care spaces encapsulates care within, as well as beyond, the biomedical; where addressing pathologies, such as cancers or colds, are as important as dismantling the causes of the pathology, including debt, homelessness, police violence, and social isolation. The collected essays grasp how emotional and physical distress is preventablewhere ensuring access to antibiotics, vaccines, or herbal remedies is as relevant as liberating unused space for housing or de-policing a neighborhood. The subjects of this collection include a network of users of psychosocial services, defending their right to autonomy within mental healthcare systems; a healthcare center organized and maintained by an anarchist collective; a worker's clinic founded by a coalition of factory workers and healthcare solidarity activists; among others.The Greek contribution to autonomous care work emancipates labor, space, and resources towards a form of life that sustains the bodies and well-being of the collectives directly involved in this process, and the broader network of autonomous communities that rely on such care spaces to reproduce other modes of noncapitalist life. Efforts to defend and expand the very elements necessary for the survival of our bodies and ecology are in tandem with efforts to rupture from hierarchies, profits, and institutionalized singularities. For Health Autonomy is a powerful collection of first-hand accounts of concrete alternatives that are replacing our need for police and prisons based on the collective power of communities and care workers. These reflections have merged from within and beyond healthcare institutions.

Wie konnte es dazu kommen, dass in Europa vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert Tausende von Frauen der Hexerei beschuldigt, grausam gefoltert und ermordet wurden? Diese Frage führt Silvia Federici zu einer Neubetrachtung der Entstehung des Kapitalismus sowie des Ausmaßes an Zerstörung von Sozial- und Geschlechterbeziehungen, auf dem diese Entwicklung basierte. Neben der weiblichen Sexualität stellten die Fähigkeiten von Frauen als Heilerinnen, Naturheilkundige, Hebammen, Erzeugerinnen von Liebestränken bei der Ersetzung einer magischen Auffassung vom menschlichen Körper durch eine »rationale«, die ihn zu ausbeutbarer Arbeitskraft umformte, eine Bedrohung dar. Um diese auszumerzen wurde mit den Hexenverfolgungen ein »Terrorregime« über alle Frauen errichtet, aus dem ein neues Modell von Weiblichkeit hervorging: geschlechtslos, untergeordnet, beschränkt auf den Bereich reproduktiver Tätigkeiten. Silvia Federici (*1942) ist emeritierte Professorin der Hofstra University in New York.Silvia Federici (*1942) ist Autorin, Aktivistin und emeritierte Professorin der Hofstra University in New York. In ihren Arbeiten beschäftigt sie sich mit feministischer Theorie, Sozialgeschichte sowie der Analyse von Arbeits- und Geschlechterverhältnissen im historischen Kontext.

Hexenjagd, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Wie konnte es dazu kommen, dass in Europa vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert Tausende von Frauen der Hexerei beschuldigt, gefoltert und ermordet wurden? Dieser Frage geht Silvia Federici in ihrem wegweisenden Essay nach und verbindet die Geschichte der Hexenverfolgungen mit einer Analyse der Entstehung des Kapitalismus und der tiefgreifenden Veränderungen sozialer und geschlechtlicher Beziehungen. Federici zeigt, dass neben der weiblichen Sexualität insbesondere das Wissen und die Fähigkeiten von Frauen als Heilerinnen, Naturheilkundige, Hebammen oder Herstellerinnen von Liebestränken als Bedrohung wahrgenommen wurden. Mit der Ablösung einer magischen Vorstellung vom menschlichen Körper durch ein rationales Verständnis, das den Körper zunehmend als ausbeutbare Arbeitskraft definierte, gerieten diese traditionellen Wissensformen unter Druck. Die Hexenverfolgungen erscheinen in Federicis Analyse als systematisches "Terrorregime" gegen Frauen, das zur Herausbildung eines neuen gesellschaftlichen Weiblichkeitsbildes beitrug: untergeordnet, kontrolliert und auf reproduktive Tätigkeiten beschränkt.Silvia Federici (*1942) ist Autorin, Aktivistin und emeritierte Professorin der Hofstra University in New York. In ihren Arbeiten beschäftigt sie sich mit feministischer Theorie, Sozialgeschichte sowie der Analyse von Arbeits- und Geschlechterverhältnissen im historischen Kontext.

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Si quieren comprender los secretos de los caminos establecidos en dirección a la democracia, observen los movimientos liderados por mujeres negras. Angela DavisEl capitalismo toma el término "empoderamiento" y lo vacía de su sentido colectivo. […] La perspectiva neoliberal del empoderamiento es individual. Patricia Hill CollinsLas mujeres están reconstruyendo aquello que es común a todos a lo largo del mundo. […] Cuando defienden los bosques, o las tierras, o los ríos de una empresa minera o petrolera, están defendiendo los bienes comunes.Silvia FedericiEste libro presenta las conferencias que Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins y Silvia Federici –tres referentes ineludibles de los movimientos feministas a nivel mundial– dictaron en octubre de 2019 alrededor del interrogante "¿Democracia en colapso?".Cada una con su marca personal, pero también con un tono compartido y contundente que invita a la reflexión y al debate, construyen una narrativa que desde la interseccionalidad aborda los temas más urgentes: la representación política, la crisis ecológica, la explotación laboral y económica, la desigualdad.En tiempos donde pareciera no haber alternativa al capitalismo salvaje, ¿Democracia para quién? se vuelve un libro imprescindible, un espacio de resistencia y, por qué no, una posible puerta de salida.

Juju: Poems and Watercolors brings together text and image to form an urgent, tender record of survival, solidarity, and the quiet power of making something together when making anything at all may feel impossible. In the darkest months of the COVID pandemic, writer and feminist theorist Silvia Federici and artist Begonia Santa-Cecilia began a private exchange across distance and isolation. Federici sent poems. Santa-Cecilia replied with watercolours. What started as an intimate correspondence became a lifeline, an act of shared breathing amid fear, surveillance, grief, and mass death. Words and colours offered a way to stay alive to one another when the world felt brutally narrowed. Only later did the two friends recognise what they had made together. A singular book born of crisis and care. Part dialogue, part visual poem, it is a testament to creation as a form of resistance and mutual aid, an affirmation of everything that cannot be controlled. Each page vibrates with the insistence that art, friendship, and collective imagination open cracks in seemingly closed realities, reminding us that this world is not the only possible one. Juju: Poems and Watercolors offers a rare and revelatory gift. For the first time, readers encounter the poetry that Federici, one of the most influential radical thinkers of our time, has written throughout her life but never published.

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender-based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstreamsystematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle?Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten.In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so, they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.Authors include Lola Olufemi, Franoise Vergs, Silvia Federici, Vernica Gago, Zahra Ali, Rama Salla Dieng, Sayak Valencia and Djamila Ribeiro. Translated by Fionn Petch and Sophie Lewis.