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Frederici, Silvia. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH: Women, the body and primitive accumulation. 2004. Automedia. USA.

This is only a brief review, more of a recommendation to read the book, than an in–depth analysis of a very fine scholarly work. It is a formidable, but highly readable, history and enquiry into the roots of the oppression of woman and workers. There are hundreds of references cited and throughout the book Frederici refers to many events whose origins and results have been obscured and denied. Frederici says that she wants in this volume to rethink not only women’s history from a feminist viewpoint, but a whole human history. Caliban, the Read more [...]

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