Kathleen’s Reviews > Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation > Status Update

“Just as the Enclosures expropriated the peasantry from the communal land, so the witch-hunt expropriated women from their bodies, which were thus “liberated” from any impediment preventing them to function as machines for the production of labor. For the threat of the stake erected more formidable barriers around women’s bodies than were ever erected by fencing off the commons.”

Amazing read. It is quickly changing how I understand history, navigate through capitalism and how I view myself as a woman.