Dear Val Johnstone,
We are organizing this event with Le tracteur savant and thought you and other neighbouring friends might be interested. You might also want to post it on Facebook.
Newyorker feminist historian Silvia Federici will be in St Antonin on the 7th of april at 6:30 (grande salle de la mairie) for an exceptional lecture on the role of women in the heretic movements and in struggles for the preservation of the commons from the medieval to the modern era.
We are organizing this event with Le tracteur savant and thought you and other neighbouring friends might be interested. You might also want to post it on Facebook.
Newyorker feminist historian Silvia Federici will be in St Antonin on the 7th of april at 6:30 (grande salle de la mairie) for an exceptional lecture on the role of women in the heretic movements and in struggles for the preservation of the commons from the medieval to the modern era.
" Federici shows that the birth of the proletariat required a war against women, inaugurating a new sexual pact and a new patriarchal era: the patriarchy of the wage. Firmly rooted in the history of the persecution of the witches and the disciplining of the body, her arguments explain why the subjugation of women was as crucial for the formation of the world proletariat as the enclosures of the land, the conquest and colonization of the 'New World,' and the slave trade.
Documenting the horrors of state terror against women, Federici has written a book truly of our times. Neither compromising nor condescending, Caliban and the Witch expresses an unfailing generosity of spirit and the dignity of a planetary scholar. It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda." (Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged).
Read her book Caliban an the Witch (2004) here:
https://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
Documenting the horrors of state terror against women, Federici has written a book truly of our times. Neither compromising nor condescending, Caliban and the Witch expresses an unfailing generosity of spirit and the dignity of a planetary scholar. It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda." (Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged).
Read her book Caliban an the Witch (2004) here:
https://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
