内容简介
本书围绕一个核心问题展开:如何解释欧洲近代初期数十万“女巫”被处死?为什么资本主义的兴起与针对妇女的战争同时发生?全书分为五个部分:15世纪前农民和工人的日常斗争;土地私有化和扩张的人口政策带来的影响;机械身体观的兴起;欧洲大陆的大规模猎巫;猎巫策略在美洲的重演与当地妇女的反击。
通过回顾这段300年的历史,费代里奇表明:猎巫运动是资本主义对于社会再生产合理化的过程体现,它为现代社会组织的两个核心原则即劳动能力和自我所有权提供了必要支撑。换言之,对女性生育和身体的控制(以攻击女巫为代表)是资本主义实现原始积累的关键步骤。
费代里奇以女性视角对话马克思的原始积累学说和福柯的身体理论，对于传统历史叙事和理论范式构成了强有力的挑战。
作者简介
西尔维娅•费代里奇（1942—），意大利学者、教师，马克思主义女权主义者和活动家，纽约州霍夫斯特拉大学荣休教授。除本书外，费代里奇还著有《零点革命：家务、再生产与女权主义斗争》（2012）、《对女性的恐惧：女巫、猎巫和妇女》（2018）、《超越身体边界》（2020）等。费代里奇还是国际女权联合会的联合创始人和家务劳动工资运动的组织者。
Content introduction
The book revolves around a central question: What explains the execution of hundreds of thousands of "witches" in early modern Europe? Why did the rise of capitalism coincide with the war on women? The book is divided into five sections: the daily struggles of peasants and workers before the 15th century; The impact of land privatization and expansionary population policies; The rise of the mechanical view of the body; Mass witch hunts in continental Europe; The reenactment of witch hunting tactics in the Americas and the counterattack of local women.
Looking back on this 300-year history, Federici shows that the witch hunt is a process of capitalist rationalization of social reproduction, and it provides the necessary support for the two core principles of modern social organization: the ability to work and self-ownership. In other words, the control of women's fertility and bodies (represented by the attack on witches) is a key step in capitalism's original accumulation.
Federici's dialogue with Marx's primitive accumulation theory and Foucault's body theory from a female perspective poses a strong challenge to the traditional historical narrative and theoretical paradigm.
About the author
Silvia Federici (1942 -), Italian scholar, teacher, Marxist feminist and activist, Professor emeritus at Hofstra University in New York State. In addition to this book, Federici is the author of Revolution Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Struggle for Feminism (2012), The Fear of Women: Witches, Witch Hunts, and Women (2018), and Beyond the Boundaries of the Body (2020). Federici is also a co-founder of the International Federation of Women's Rights and an organizer of the Domestic Work Wage campaign.
