Silvia Federici Boeken

A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood.

Collects 35 years of essays on feminism, as well as critiques of capitalism, in a book that looks at elder care, labor, sex and reproduction and more. Original.

An edited collection Silvia Federici's work, spanning over twenty years, in which 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.

In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, best-selling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our time, asks why Marx and the Marxist tradition were so crucial in their denunciation of capitalism's exploitation of human labor and 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? In this fiery collection of penetrating essays published here for the first time, Federici carefully examines these questions and in the process has provided an expansive redefinition of work, class, and class-gender relations. Seeking to delineate the specific character of capitalist "patriarchalism," this magnificently original approach also highlights Marx's and the Marxist tradition's problematic view of industrial production and the State in the struggle for human liberation. Federici's lucid argument that most reproductive work is irreducible to automation is a powerful reminder of the poverty of the revolutionary imagination that consigns to the world of machines the creation of the material conditions for a communist society.

"Written between 1974 and the present, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain...to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in "alienated labor" is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction. Beginning with Federici's organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons."...Publisher description

Through personal essays and interviews about what it is like to live as a woman (cis + trans) in the modern world, All of Me includes vulnerable, painful truths and bold inspiration. This anthology is for anyone looking to find inspiration in radical activism, creativity, healing, and more. It covers topics of social and economic justice, creativity, racism, transgender perspectives, sexuality, sex work, addiction and recovery, reproductive rights, assault, relationship dynamics, families, fitting and not fitting in, radical self-care, witchcraft, and more.

The present way of life is a war against our bodies. Can we build the infrastructure to heal ourselves and transform the societal conditions that continue to mentally and physically harm us?

Silvia Federici argues that, no less than the witch hunts in sixteenth and seventeenth century, the 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 remoulding 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.

More than ever, the 'body' is today at the centre of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans and ecological movementsall look at the body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist development has generated and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. Here, Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine.

In diesem Band formuliert die feministisch-marxistische Theoretikerin und Aktivistin Silvia Federici eine zeitgemäße Kritik der Reproduktionsarbeit im globalen Kapitalismus und plädiert für eine feministische Politik der Commons. Neben zwei neuen Beiträgen wird die 1974 verfasste Kritik „Counter-Planning from the Kitchen“ erstmals in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht. Federici erinnert an die „unerledigte Revolution des Feminismus“ und fordert deren Aktualisierung. Sie argumentiert, dass Queer-Feminismus und Ökonomiekritik nicht im Widerspruch zueinander stehen, sondern miteinander verbunden werden müssen. Der Band ist eine Intervention in einen queeren und feministischen Diskurs, der sich zu wenig mit Kapitalismuskritik auseinandersetzt, sowie in den ökonomiekritischen, marxistischen Diskurs, der oft noch androzentrisch geprägt ist und Geschlechterverhältnisse nur am Rande behandelt. Gleichzeitig führt der Band die in den USA und Italien bekannte operaistische Feministin Silvia Federici in Deutschland ein. Er leistet einen Beitrag zur Analyse des globalen Kapitalismus mit Fokus auf Reproduktionsarbeit und zur Geschichte feministischer Kämpfe. Im Rahmen der neuen Buchreihe Kitchen Politics ist dieser erste Band auch als Plädoyer für eine materialistische, antikapitalistische Wende der Queer Theory zu verstehen.