642 reviews for:

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

4.52 AVERAGE

aaathdr's review against another edition

4.5

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fiffiyen's review against another edition

4.0

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iemmastar's review against another edition

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kiwialmighty's review against another edition

4.0

informative slow-paced

nicolesteinicke's review against another edition

5.0

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shrimp_reads's review against another edition

4.0

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sarahevonne's review against another edition

5.0

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thelibraryduck's review against another edition

3.75

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samsoum95's review against another edition

4.5

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This is a masterful historical account of the transition to capitalism and the insanely violent and cynical campaign to discipline, exploit, alienate and subjugate the emerging working class, and colonised subjects, through suite of policies and discourses that culminated in the European witch trials. Federici addresses crucial omissions made by Marx and Foucault in their respective histories of primitive accumulation and the disciplining of the body. My fav chapter was on the use of Cartesian and Hobbesian philosophy to demonise the body, and how this was central in colonial efforts of the time - it made me cry so much; there is a grief in recognising everything that has been lost and destroyed with Western European colonialism, imperialism and capitalist expansion. At times Federici overemphasises the primacy of the witch hunts in the links she makes, but I’m not mad! So fucking good.

sincerelymendacious's review against another edition

4.0

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