Caliban and the Witch

01Federici traces the witch trial peak to the exact decades when European feudal commons were being legally enclosed and privatized.
02She argues contraceptive knowledge — held by women healers — was the specific threat that made midwives and herbalists targets for execution.
03'Caliban and the Witch' was rejected by major publishers for 15 years before Autonomedia released it; it is now assigned in over 200 universities.

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Silvia Federici's 2004 'Caliban and the Witch' reread the witch trials as primitive accumulation — capitalism's founding act required burning the women who held communal knowledge of contraception, land, and the body.