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4.52 AVERAGE
4.52 AVERAGE
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Very eye opening and informative. Essential read on marxism and feminism. There is a lot to take from this book that it needs to be read slowly and several times but it is also accessible and easy to digest.
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an interesting book that is undeniably valuable to Marxist feminists, even though you can tell that Federici worked backwards.
her writing on the witch trials themselves contain the work’s weakest points and was overly concerned with drawing connections between white European women and Europe’s colonized and enslaved subjects. there were a few instances where I wondered if they were brought up specifically to aid Federici in drawing the woman/slave comparison; this really harmed her argument even with the best intentions.
my favourite part of the work was oddly distanced from her main thesis: the mechanization of the body (as outlined by Foucault) and the machine as a model for social behaviour within the bourgeois imagination. considering there is a plethora of research on early modern constructions of the ‘monstrous’ and ‘irrational’ female body I thought she would explore this subject further, but the chapter ends with a vague conclusion of seemingly uniform proletarian bodily otherness that doesn’t touch on the gendered body at all. perhaps we are tired of hearing about the reduction of women to their physical forms, but in this chapter specifically it seemed strange not to mention.
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