WOMEN'S WORK AND THE BODY IN THE NEW FORMS OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION
California Insitute of Integral Studies Anthropology and Social Change Department Presents:
Silvia Federici Visiting Scholar Lecture Series Spring 2017
Held in the California Insitute of Integral Studies Lobby Gallery
March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2017
From  7:00pm - 9:00pm
Free and Open to the Public! Please RSVP for this free event!
The Department of Anthropology and Social Change is proud to announce our 2017 Visiting Scholar, Silvia Federici. Join Federici for a series of three distinct lectures:March 1st. Women's Work, the Body, and State Policy in the Transition to Capitalism: a Historical Perspective.Turning the female body into a work machine for the production of workers, with European witch-hunts and slave-breeding in the American plantations, and Aboriginal and colonialist conceptions of the body.March 2nd. Reclaiming the body: The feminist revolt against the the capitalist sexual/work discipline, with reproductive justice and sex workers movement, as well as the Trans/Queer/Intersex re-conceptualization of body and gender.March 3rd. The Neo-Liberal Reframing of the Body/Work Question: The marketization of Women's Reproductive Capacity and Redefinition of Maternity, with Violence Against Women and the New Forms of Capitalist Accumulation.
Silvia Federici is an Italian American scholar, teacher, and activist. She is the co-founder and member of many organizations including: the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, the International Feminist Collective, and the Radical Philosophy Association. She is also the author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation and Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle.Â
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