Her main argument lies in the destruction of female ability to produce capital due to the extreme focus of the government on reproduction.Īside from the removal of women from certain positions in the workforce, the traditional role of the midwife was also replaced by doctors as a way of preventing infanticide. Federici shows the fall of female ability for autonomy and the rise of patriarchal societies as a result of an emerging emphasis on global trade and the perceived notion that the wealth of the country is directly tied to its capability to create new members of the workforce.
The ideas presented by Silvia Federici in “Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation” are feminist in nature, but the views of the author are presented in a much more detailed way with the analysis of historical events and changes in philosophy over centuries.
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