Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Federici Silvia)(Paperback)

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Federici Silvia)(Paperback)

Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain--to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to

Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (Federici Silvia)(Paperback)

Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative

Woman at Point Zero (Saadawi Nawal El)(Paperback)

Nawal El Saadawi's highly acclaimed feminist novel, Woman at Point Zero, follows the life of Firdaus, an Egyptian peasant girl, from her childhood of incomprehensible cruelty and neglect to her end in a grimy Cairo prison cell. From her earliest memories, Firdaus suffered at the hands of men--first

Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism (Federici Silvia)(Paperback)

In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, best-selling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our time, asks why Marx and the Marxist tradition were so crucial in their denunciation of capitalism's exploitation of human labor and blind to women's work and struggle on the terrain of

Caliban and the Witch - Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Federici Silvia)(Paperback / softback)

Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays (Gimnez Martha E.)(Paperback)

In Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction, Martha E. Gim nez offers a distinctive perspective on social reproduction which posits that the relations of production determine the relations of social reproduction, and which links the effects of class exploitation and location to forms of

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women (Federici Silvia)(Paperback)

We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia

Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federic (Barbagallo Camille)(Paperback)

A passionate collection rediscovering the work of two giants of autonomist Marxism and

Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment (Weisman Leslie)(Paperback)

'A fast-moving, insightful, politically astute and upfront feminist examination of the power struggles involved in building and controlling space.' -- Women's Review of Books 'A readable account of the force of male dominance in the built environment. . . . Those looking to this book for a

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Scurr Ruth)(Paperback)

'Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.'--Hilary Mantel, London Review of BooksSince his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for

Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction (Ferguson Susan)(Paperback)

'A masterful analysis of three centuries of feminist deliberations on work, carefully tracing how the fault lines of social-reproduction theory emerged.'--Historical Materialism Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Federici Silvia)(Paperback)

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She

Mexican Gothic (Moreno-Garcia Silvia)(Paperback / softback)

The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a mesmerising feminist re-imagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico. He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me

Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions) - 'Genius' - Patricia Lockwood (Ingalls Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

Muscular yet gentle, vegetarian, and excellent at housework, Larry the frogman is a revelation: and their passionate affair goes beyond their wildest dreams ...Rachel Ingalls' Mrs Caliban is a surrealist masterpiece: as dazzling as it was four decades ago. 'A miracle

Woman at 1,000 Degrees (Helgason Hallgrimur)(Paperback / softback)

A darkly comic and explosive tale of a world at war and one island girl's struggle to

A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Mitter Rana)(Paperback)

In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over

French Revolution and What Went Wrong (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a

British Politics and the American Revolution (Perry Keith)(Paperback)

This new book looks at British Politics in the 1760's and 1770's during the American Revolution. Perry looks particularly at colonialism and the colonial administration, and at the general conduct of the war with America. He also surveys the development of radicalism in Britain subsequent to the

The Gods Will Have Blood (France Anatole)(Paperback)

It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate, and given the power of life and

Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic (Dickens Risa)(Paperback)

A guide to invocations, rituals, and histories at the intersection of magic and feminism, as informed by history's witches--and the sociopolitical culture that gave rise to them. When you start looking for witches, you find them everywhere. As seekers and practitioners reclaim and restore magic to

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Seife Charles)(Paperback)

Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. 'Zero is really something'-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern

Lebanon - After the Cedar Revolution(Paperback / softback)

A comprehensive look at contemporary Lebanon and the ongoing attempts by Israel, Syria and Iran to influence its domestic

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland (Bradley Richard)(Paperback)

Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for much of the prehistoric sequence. In this landmark study, Richard Bradley offers an interpretation of the

Rough Crossings - Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Schama Simon CBE)(Paperback / softback)

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of