6 must-read history books like Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici

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Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

By: Silvia Federici

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl…

"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the misery of everyday existence."

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the misery of everyday existence."

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth."

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth."

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

If you liked the history plot in Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens

2. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

By: Barbara Ehrenreich , Deirdre English

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female pr… read more

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3. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

By: bell hooks

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teachingto Transgress: Education as the Practice … read more

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4. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more

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5. Aziyadé : suivi de Fantôme d'Orient

By: Pierre Loti , None

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Pierre Loti, dont on imagine mal quelle gloire retentissante il connut de son vivant, est aujourd'h… read more

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6. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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7. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

Similar categories in Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • witches
  • womens
  • sociology
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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8. Dare la vita

By: Michela Murgia

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Si può essere madri di figlie e figli che si scelgono, e che a loro volta ci hanno scelte? Si può c… read more

Similar categories in Michela Murgia's Dare la vita book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Dimmi che ami quello che di me cambia di continuo, e io potrò continuare a darti quello che di me davvero non cambia: la voglia di sceglierti ogni giorno in modo differente, come diversa sono io ogni…"

-Michela Murgia, Dare la vita

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9. As Bruxas da Noite: A História não Contada do Regimento Aéreo Feminino Russo Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial

By: Ritanna Armeni

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Neste livro, a jornalista italiana e escritora premiada, Ritanna Armeni, reconstrói a história de u… read more

Similar categories in Ritanna Armeni's As Bruxas da Noite: A História não Contada do Regimento Aéreo Feminino Russo Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

By: Carla Lonzi

4.28

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Carla Lonzi's Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

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11. Lo spazio delle donne

By: Daniela Brogi

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Per molti secoli sono state ritenute interessanti solo le opere e i libri degli uomini, mentre le d… read more

Similar categories in Daniela Brogi's Lo spazio delle donne book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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12. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

By: Sady Doyle

4.10

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop c… read more

Similar categories in Sady Doyle's Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"We would rather see girls stopped dead—stuck in a constant childhood that never decays—than let them grow into women who can pursue their desires."

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

"Once a woman is free to desire and pursue her own desires, she moves beyond the reach of our empathy; she's a threat that must be contained or destroyed."

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

"The ultimate violence patriarchy does to women is to make us believe we deserve what has been done to us—a loop forever closing, breaking us so that we will raise broken women."

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

"[...] ora le donne non possono più fermarsi. Ci riprenderemo il mondo, i nostri corpi e tutte le possibilità che ci sono state negate. Quando apriremo bocca, i nostri oppressori dovranno tacere e, qu…"

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

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13. Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria

By: Sara Marzullo

3.48

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

«Ero triste, di una tristezza vischiosa e pervasiva, come melassa o incenso. E soprattutto, era cos… read more

Similar categories in Sara Marzullo's Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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14. Prehistorias de mujeres. Descubre lo que no te han contado sobre nosotras

By: Marga Sánchez Romero

4.33

Format: 288 pages, ebook

¿De verdad eran ellas las que se quedaban cuidando a la prole? ¿Cómo era realmente la maternidad y … read more

Similar categories in Marga Sánchez Romero's Prehistorias de mujeres. Descubre lo que no te han contado sobre nosotras book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • womens
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15. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

By: Silvia Federici

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • witches
  • womens
  • sociology
  • witchcraft
"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

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16. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

By: Cinzia Arruzza

4.03

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more

Similar categories in Cinzia Arruzza's Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

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17. A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective

By: Françoise Vergès

4.11

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN… read more

Similar categories in Françoise Vergès's A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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18. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

By: Sara Ahmed

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ahmed's The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"

-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

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19. Manifesto anarca-femminista

By: Chiara Bottici

3.75

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

«O tutte, o nessuno di noi sarà libero». Questo il motto dell’anarca-femminismo. Questa nuova e riv… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Bottici's Manifesto anarca-femminista book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. Fare femminismo

By: Giulia Siviero

4.32

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Nella storia dei femminismi, il racconto delle pratiche è spesso rimasto ai margini. Eppure la poli… read more

Similar categories in Giulia Siviero's Fare femminismo book and Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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21. Comfortless

By: Miguel Vila

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Dall’autore di Padovaland e Fiordilatte l’ultimo capitolo della trilogia del Nordest, affresco cata… read more

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