Our next book club is hybrid! Join us online or in the wonderful Typewronger Books, Edinburgh on 20th April at 7 pm to discuss our next read, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici.
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Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch is one of our favourite non-fiction titles, and for good reason it was reprinted by Penguin Modern Classics last year. More recent and less known, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women is a slimmer book but examines similar territory; many describe it as an accessible introduction to Federici’s work, condensing many of the same ideas laid out in Caliban. Here Federici examines the root causes of a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including witch hunts, a mirror, she argues, of the 16th and 17th-century witch hunts of Europe and "the “New World.” An engaging feminist perspective on the development of capitalism, Silvia Federici’s writings are by now an essential part of the feminist canon. Tickets are FREE – to get your name on the list email info@typewronger.com. Order the book from Typewronger and get 10% off the RRP. Find more details about the Covid precautions via the FB event page. Weather permitting, afterwards there will be refreshments available outside.