{"product_id":"caliban-and-the-witch","title":"Caliban and the Witch Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A groundbreaking work \u003c\/b\u003e. . . \u003cb\u003eFederici has become a crucial figure\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003efor . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ea new generation of feminists'\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Kushner, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, \u003ci\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521922547937,"sku":null,"price":419.3,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/9033\/0593\/files\/27124723482273.jpg?v=1764189927","url":"https:\/\/perfectbookhouse.com\/products\/caliban-and-the-witch","provider":"PERFECT BOOK HOUSE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}