Caliban and the Witch
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher: Autonomedia
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1570270597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Women, the body and primitive accumulation"--Cover.
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Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2018-10-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1629635847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and outlines the consequences for the women affected and their communities. She argues that, no less than the witch hunts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the “New World,” this new war on women is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation. These processes are founded on the destruction of people’s most basic means of reproduction. Like at the dawn of capitalism, what we discover behind today’s violence against women are processes of enclosure, land dispossession, and the remolding of women’s reproductive activities and subjectivity. As well as an investigation into the causes of this new violence, the book is also a feminist call to arms. Federici’s work provides new ways of understanding the methods in which women are resisting victimization and offers a powerful reminder that reconstructing the memory of the past is crucial for the struggles of the present.
Patriarchy of the Wage
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1629638099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx’s work is vitally important. In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, bestselling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our era, asks why Marx's crucial analysis of the exploitation of human labor was blind to women’s work and struggle on the terrain of social reproduction. Why was Marx unable to anticipate the profound transformations in the proletarian family that took place at the turn of the nineteenth century creating a new patriarchal regime? Patriarchy of the Wage does more than just redefine classical Marxism. It is an urgent call for a new kind of radical politics.
Re-enchanting the World
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1629635855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSilvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the “new enclosures” at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions capital has planted in the body of the world proletariat. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing capitalist organization of life and labor.
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement
Author: Anuradha Ghandy
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781539419976
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Witchcraze
Author: Anne Llewellyn Barstow
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the annihilation of seven million women of spirit and intelligence under the guise of 'witch hunts' in Reformation Europe
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
Author: Arthur Evans
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA basic text for radical faeries, but very loose on historic veracity.--Jim Kepner.
Miranda and Caliban
Author: Jacqueline Carey
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0765386801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiranda and Caliban is bestselling fantasy author Jacqueline Carey’s gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. With hypnotic prose and a wild imagination, Carey explores the themes of twisted love and unchecked power that lie at the heart of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, while serving up a fresh take on the play's iconic characters. A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father, a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to keep them safe. We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, but what of Miranda? Or Caliban, the so-called savage Prospero chained to his will? In this incredible retelling of the fantastical tale, Jacqueline Carey shows readers the other side of the coin—the dutiful and tenderhearted Miranda, who loves her father but is terribly lonely. And Caliban, the strange and feral boy Prospero has bewitched to serve him. The two find solace and companionship in each other as Prospero weaves his magic and dreams of revenge. Always under Prospero’s jealous eye, Miranda and Caliban battle the dark, unknowable forces that bind them to the island even as the pangs of adolescence create a new awareness of each other and their doomed relationship. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Sonic Episteme
Author: Robin James
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019-12-02
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1478007370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields ranging from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme—a set of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices in much the same way that neoliberalism uses statistics—employs a politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic episteme's marginalization of nonnormative conceptions of gender, race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she identifies in Beyoncé's and Rihanna's music challenge such marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology, subjectivity, and power, James argues for the further articulation of sonic practices that avoid contributing to the systemic relations of domination that biopolitical neoliberalism creates and polices.
Witches, Sluts, Feminists
Author: Kristen J. Sollée
Publisher: Threel Media
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780996485272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExposing how "witch" and "slut" are used to police female sexuality, the author rehabilitates these sex positive archetypes.
