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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Silvia Federici; Verónica Hendel; Leopoldo Sebastián Touza |
ISBN: | 9788496453517 8496453510 |
OCLC Number: | 1142739478 |
Language Note: | Text in Spanish. |
Notes: | Originally published in English by Autonomedia in 2004 as: Caliban and the Witch. Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation. |
Description: | 372 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Series Title: | Historia (Traficantes de Sueños) |
Other Titles: | Caliban and the witch : women, the body and primitive accumulation. |
Responsibility: | Silvia Federici ; traducción, Verónica Hendel y Leopoldo Sebastián Touza. |
Abstract:
A history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. This book demonstrates how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.
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