Silvia Federici

Silvia Federici (1942, Parma, Italy) is an Italian American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years, is also the co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, and is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.

Publications

Books

• Wages Against Housework, New York: Power of Women Collective, and Bristol: Falling Wall Press, Apr 1975, 8 pp.
  • Salario contro il lavoro domestico, Naples: Collettivo femminista napoletano per il salario al lavoro domestico, and Padova: Comitato per il salario al lavoro domestico, 1976, [13] pp. (Italian)
  • Lohn gegen Hausarbeit, Berlin: P. Biemann, 1977, 11 pp. (German)

• with Nicole Cox, Counter-Planning from the Kitchen: Wages for Housework: A Perspective on Capital and the Left, New York: New York Wages for Housework, and Bristol: Falling Wall Press, Nov 1975, 23 pp. (English)
  • Contropiano dalle cucine, Venice: Marsilio, 1978, 78 pp. [1] (Italian)
  • Ē politikē oikonomia tēs gynaikeias apeleutherōsēs, trans. Nikos V Alexiou, Athens: Eleutheros Typos, 123 pp. (Greek)

• with Leopoldina Fortunati, Il grande Calibano: storia del corpo sociale ribelle nella prima fase del capitale, Milan: Franco Angeli, 1984, 306 pp. (Italian)

• editor, Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others", Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995, xvi+210 pp.

• editor, with George Caffentzis and Ousseina Alidou, A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000, 241 pp.

• editor, African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa, Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 2000.

• Reproduksi dan perjuangan feminis dalam pembagian kerja internasional baru, trans. Nug Katjasungkana, Jakarta: Kalyanamitra, 2000, ix+60 pp. [2] (Indonesian)

• Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2004, 288 pp.
  • Calibán y la bruja: mujeres, cuerpo y acumulación originaria, trans. Verónica Hendel and Leopoldo Sebastián Touza, Madrid: Traficantes de sueños, 2010, 368 pp. (Spanish)
  • Caliban und die Hexe. Frauen, der Körper und die ursprüngliche Akkumulation, trans. Max Henninger, Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2012. (German)
  • Caliban ve cadı: kadınlar, beden ve ilksel birikim, trans. Öznur Karakaş, Istanbul: Otonom Yayıncılık, 2012, 370 pp. (Turkish)
  • Kaliban i veštica. Žene, telo i prvobitna akumulacija, trans. Aleksa Golijanin, Zrenjanin: Burevesnik, 2013. (Serbian)
  • Caliban et la sorcière: femmes, corps et accumulation primitive, trans. Senonevero, Genève: Entremonde, and Marseille: Senonevero, 2014, 403 pp. (French)
  • Calibano e la strega: le donne, il corpo e l'accumulazione originaria, Milan: Mimesis, 2015, 343 pp. Preface. (Italian)
  • Kyariban to majo: Shihon shugi ni kosuru josei no shintai, trans. Rin Odawara, 2017, 517 pp. (Japanese)

• Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Oakland, CA: PM Press, and Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2012, 188 pp, EPUB, MOBI. Collection of essays 1975-2010.
  • Aufstand aus der Küche. Reproduktionsarbeit im globalen Kapitalismus und die unvollendete feministische Revolution, trans. Max Henninger, Münster: Assamblage, 2012, 128 pp. [3] (German)
  • Revolución en punto cero: trabajo doméstico, reproducción y luchas feministas, trans. Scriptorium (Carlos Fernández Guervós y Paula Martín Ponz), Madrid: Traficantes de sueños, 2013, 285 pp. (Spanish)
  • Hyŏngmyŏng ŭi yŏngjŏm: kasa nodong, chaesaengsan, yŏsŏngjuŭi t'uchaeng, trans. Hwang Sŏng-wŏn, Seoul: Kalmuri, 2013, 336 pp. (Korean)
  • Il punto zero della rivoluzione: lavoro domestico, riproduzione e lotta femminista, trans. Anna Curcio, Verona: Ombre corte, 2014, 159 pp. [4] (Italian)
  • Point zéro: propagation de la révolution. Salaire ménager, reproduction sociale, combat féministe, trans. Damien Tissot, rev. & notes Oristelle Bonis, Donnemarie-Dontilly: iXe, 2016, 258 pp. (French)

• Witch-Hunting, Past and Present, and the Fear of the Power of Women / Hexenjagd, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart und die Angst vor der Macht der Frauen, trans. Astrid Wege, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012, 30 pp. (English)/(German)

Journal issues

• editor, with Camille Barbagallo, The Commoner 15: "'Care Work' and the Commons", Winter 2012, ix+432 pp. (English)

Links

• Wikipedia