Silvia Federici ( born Silvia Federici ; born 1942, Parma , Italy) is an American scholar, teacher, and activist representing a radical autonomist and feminist Marxist tradition [2] . She is an honorary professor and board member at Hofstra University, where she was a professor of sociology [3] . For many years she taught in Nigeria , is a co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a member of the Midnight Notes Collective [4] .
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| Place of Birth | Parma , Italy |
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| Scientific field | sociology , gender studies , political philosophy |
| Place of work | Hofstra University |
| Alma mater | State University of New York at Buffalo |
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Biography
Federici grew up in Italy and came to the United States in 1967 to enter graduate school in philosophy at the University of Buffalo [5] . She taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, and was an assistant professor and later professor of political philosophy and international relations at the University of Hoftsra.
She was co-founder of the International Feminist Team, organizer of the Wages for Housework campaign, and participates in the Midnight Notes Collective. She co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. In 1995, she became one of the founders of the Radical Philosophy Association (RPA), a project against the death penalty .
Scientific Contribution
Federici's most famous work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation , expands the work of Leopoldina Fortunati. In it, she disputes the idea of Karl Marx that the initial accumulation of capital is a necessary precursor to capitalism . Instead, she argues that initial accumulation is a fundamental characteristic of capitalism itself, that in order to preserve itself capitalism requires a constant infusion of expropriated capital.
Federici connects this expropriation with female unpaid labor related to social reproduction and other functions, [6] she formulates this as a historical condition for the rise of the capitalist economy based on wage labor. In this regard, it denotes the historical struggle for the public and the struggle for communism . Instead of looking at capitalism as a liberation victory over feudalism , Federici understands the rise of capitalism as a reactionary movement against rising communism, trying to maintain a social contract .
In the 1970s, Federici joined the New York Household Salary movement, initiated by Selma James .
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- Marxist feminism
- Autonomism
- Affective labor
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1025174429 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Silvia Frederici biography at Interactivist Archived on September 28, 2007.
- ↑ Silvia Frederici biography at Democracy Now Archived on April 20, 2006.
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 22, 2010. Archived February 22, 2010. On capitalism, colonialism, women and food politics, Politics and Culture 2009 (2) - Special Issue on Food & Sovereignty
- ↑ Silvia Federici, On capitalism, colonialism, women and food politics
- ↑ http://www.owl.ru/gender/123.htm Unpaid work of women, A. A. Denisova, Dictionary of gender terms.