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Beyond the Periphery of the Skin - Rethinking, Remaking, Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism by Silvia Federici
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Kairos Ser.
More than ever, "the body" is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements: all 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 fo ...Show more
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
Category: Philosophy and Religion
From the peasant revolts to the Great European Witch Hunt- the crushing of occult traditions and women's reproductive freedom in the transition to capitalism. A 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 t ...Show more
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
Category: Languages and Reference
Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the struggle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions ...Show more
Family, Welfare, and the State - Between Progressivism and the New Deal, Second Edition by Mariarosa Dalla Costa; Silvia Federici (Preface by); Liz Mason-Deese (Foreword by); Rafaella Capanna (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
"Dalla Costa shows that with the New Deal, the state began to plan the 'social factory'--that is, the home, the family, the school, and above all women's labor, on which the productivity and pacification of industrial relations was made to rest."--Silvia Federici In a groundbreaking study, Family, Welfa ...Show more
Feminicide and Global Accumulation - Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism by Silvia Federici (Editor); Susana Draper (Edited and Translated by); Liz Mason-Deese (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Feminicide and Global Accumulation brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza women's organizations fighting against violence--interpersonal, state sanctioned, and economic--that is both endemic to the global economy and the contemporary devalued ...Show more
Patriarchy of the Wage - Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism by Silvia Federici
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Spectre Ser.
In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, best-selling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our time, asks why Marx and the Marxist tradition were so crucial in their denunciation of capitalism's exploitation of human labor and blind to women's work and struggle on the terrain of social r ...Show more
Re-Enchanting the World - Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici; Peter Linebaugh (Foreword by)
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Kairos Ser.
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 an ...Show more
Revolution at Point Zero - Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici
Category: Sexual Health | Series: Common Notions Ser.
The essays collected in this volume represent the years of research and theorising on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalisation. The topics discussed include the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labour, and the develo ...Show more
Revolution at Point Zero - Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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 rel ...Show more
The Social Dimension of Social Housing by Simon Guntner (Editor); Juma Hauser (Editor); Judith M. Lehner (Editor); Christoph Reinprecht (Editor); Amita Bhide (Contribution by); Silvia Federici (Contribution by); Astrid Ley (Contribution by); Iván Tosics (Contribution by)
Category: Architecture
A systematic global study of the social cultures within social housing. Twenty short essays, based on case studies from around the world, describe and illustrate the social elements of social housing developments. This volume embarks on an ambitious journey across continents and contexts, offering up ...Show more
Witches Witchunting and Women by Silvia Federici
Category: Philosophy and Religion
We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relation. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, examines the root ...Show more
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