Description More than ever, "the body" is today at the center of radical and institutional politics.
Her books include Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Caliban and the Witch
Re-enchanting the World ; and Revolution at Point Zero..
In 1972 she cofounded the International Feminist Collective that launched the Wages for Housework campaign.
What does "the body" mean, today, as a category of social/political action? What are the processes, institutional or anti-systemic, by which it is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been "enclosed" and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them? About the Author Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant.
In this process she confronts some of the most important questions for Contemporary radical political projects.
In Beyond the Periphery of the Skin , lifelong activist and bestselling author Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the Body into a work-machine, expanding on one of the main subjects of her first book, Caliban and the Witch .
Concurrently, the Body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis generated by the neoliberal turn in capitalist development and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence.
Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements: all look at the Body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices.
Description More than ever, "the body" is today at the center of radical and institutional politics
