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Silvia Federici: Caliban and the Witch (2004, Autonomedia) 4 stars

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. …

Engaging and provocative, fearless and harrowing

5 stars

Caliban and the Witch was excellent. I feel changed by Federici’s work, and in how I understand the history and uses of misogyny, of sex, of commons and community and spiritual institutions. This book, despite being quite broad and in parts knowingly speculative, has been useful to me in pointing at so many of the ways in which we have been shaped—through violence, belief, division—into the societies and economies of today.