Caliba And The Witch Silvia Federici

From the excerpt, Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici it discusses the conscious action of valuing the ideas of patriarchy being the source of capitalistic growth and women being shoved into new roles. However, Federici would argue that “the witch-hunt deepened the divisions between women and men, teaching men to fear the power of women”. Thus those who were seen as witches were discriminated because these women were undermining the male’s role in the reproductive process. Furthermore, men felt threatened by the means of women settling in one place for the means of production. Therefore, within “the witch-hunting in Europe was an attack on women’s resistance to the spread of capitalist relations and the power that women’s women gained