Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

Co-sponsored by the UW Center for Humanities, the UW Gender & Women Studies Program and the UW Geography Department.

SILVIA FEDERICI is a long-time feminist scholar, activist, and teacher. She is Professor Emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, and co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, the Radical Philosophy Association Anti-Death Penalty Project, and the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. She is the author of numerous books and essays on feminist theory and history and political philosophy, including Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Capital Accumulation; Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle; Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and its Others (edited); and A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in Afican Universities (co-edited).