7/4/2023 0 Comments Caliban and the witch federici![]() ![]() ![]() “For in pre-capitalist Europe women’s subordination to men had been tempered by the fact that they had access to the commons and other conununal assets, while in the new capitalist regime women themselves became the commons, as their work was defined as a natural resource, laying outside the sphere of market relations” (97 emphasis added). It argues two main things:Īs Europe transitioned from common ownership to private ownership and enclosed both the European commons and colonial terra nullius (null land, land that’s not owned by an individual as their private property), women became, for men, what the commons had previously been for everyone. This is a classic text in feminist theory. Today we read selections of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch. This is the second installment of me blogging my way through the course texts for my spring 2018 seminar in feminist theory. ![]()
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