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Calibán y la bruja: Mujeres, cuerpo y acumulación originaria by Silvia Federici

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challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

read this on recommendation from a lecturer: pretty dense, but full of really interesting points. i’ve studied early modern england before but never really saw it as the ‘advent of capitalism’ until now. really interesting to see it linked to the structures imposed by european colonialism in the americas and how this links into the capitalisation on the female body. did feel at times that the book veered off onto massive tangents and the chapters weren’t really massively cohesive or contributing to a central argument: it felt at times like they were simply linked by an obligatory sentence at the start and end of each chapter, and federici only reached her main thesis by about three-quarters of the way through the book. regardless, really fascinating content in each, and really enjoyed all the pictures and diagrams too, which i felt really leant to the interpretation of the written content rather than just serving as ‘breathing space’ for the text as is sometimes the case in academic and historical texts. 3.5 stars
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