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A review by baxstarjonmarie
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
5.0
If you start and stop this book four times because of how intensely academic the intro seems, push through or skip it. Skip the footnotes too if that helps.
This book has given me an entirely new understanding of 15th and 16th century Europe through which to view my ancestors and how they may have participated or been witness to the witch hunts and the rise of capitalism. Federici lays down a thick foundation and it pays off. I'm very excited to read her more recent works and to have somehow actually finished reading a book in this hellscape of late capitalism gone wild.
This book has given me an entirely new understanding of 15th and 16th century Europe through which to view my ancestors and how they may have participated or been witness to the witch hunts and the rise of capitalism. Federici lays down a thick foundation and it pays off. I'm very excited to read her more recent works and to have somehow actually finished reading a book in this hellscape of late capitalism gone wild.