Stephie Grob Plante

Sep 4, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Kelli Maria Korducki |Monica Heisey |Stephie Grob Plante

Twenty years ago, during a particularly soggy late-summer hurricane season along North America’s eastern seaboard, a 62-year-old Hofstra University professor named Silvia Federici published one of the most influential feminist texts of the 21st century. That book, Caliban and the Witch, traces the emergence of witch hunts throughout medieval Western Europe amid the transition from serfdom to proto-capitalism.