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Silvia Federici

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Silvia Federici is an Italian-American scholar, teacher and Marxist feminist activist, born in 1942, based in New York. She is considered a leading theorist in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy and the history and theory of the commons. Her best known book, Caliban and the Witch (2004), has been translated into numerous languages and widely adopted in college courses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1942 1
Subfield
Political Theory 2
Subfield
Gender and Sexuality 2
Connections

Practices Studied

Capitalism, Institutions and Social Structures
Source Silvia Federici (Wikipedia)

Shaped By

Feminist Theory, Social Theory and Concepts
Source Silvia Federici (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

Italy

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United States

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Sources
1. Wikidata: Silvia Federici
  • Wikidata Q597248, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)
  • Wikidata Q597248, P569 (w-bbfill-smallsix3-0926)
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2. Silvia Federici (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    Silvia Federici is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York. She is considered one of the leading theoreticians in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy, and the history and theory of the commons.
  • Lead, subfield gender
    Silvia Federici (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilvja fedeˈriːtʃi]; born April 1942) is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York.
  • Lead, subfield political-theory
    Silvia Federici (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilvja fedeˈriːtʃi]; born April 1942) is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York.
  • Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
    Instead of seeing capitalism as a liberatory defeat of feudalism, Federici interprets the ascent of capitalism as a reactionary move to subvert the rising tide of communalism and to retain the basic social contract.
  • Shaped By: Feminist Theory, Lead
    She is considered one of the leading theoreticians in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy, and the history and theory of the commons.
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