This Student Edition of The Crucible is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to … More
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We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal & 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 & the Witch, Federici examines the root causes of these developments & outlines the consequences for the women affected and their communities. She argues that, no less than the witch-hunts in 16th-17th century Europe & 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, … More