Caliban and the Witch
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781570270598
Category
Gender and Sexuality
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
285
Subject
Social Science, Sociology, Women's Studies
Description
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. 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 battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.br br br br "It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda."--Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged
Number of Copies
1
