Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

All the World Needs a Jolt:

Social Movements and Political Crisis in Medieval Europe

The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women:

Constructing “Difference” in the “Transition to Capitalism”

The Great Caliban:

The Struggle Against the Rebel Body

The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe

Colonization and Christianization:

Caliban and Witches in the New World

Index

About the Author

Silvia Federici is Associate Professor of Philosophy and International Studies at Hofstra University. She is the author of Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others" and African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa (with Cheryl B. Mwaria and Joseph McLaren).