Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici in conversation with Jenny Brown at Moe’s Books
Silvia Federici in conversation with Jenny Brown at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA on Monday, December 9th at 7 pm. Cosponsored by East Bay Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the Wages for Housework campaign. Her books include Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women; Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Revolution at Point Zero. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years and was also the co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa.
Jenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to have “morning-after pill” contraception available over-the-counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. In addition to Labor Notes, her work has appeared in Jacobin, Huffington Post, and Alternet, and she is co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work and Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
Books Available at PM Press: Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women; Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Revolution at Point Zero by Federici, Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work and Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Brown, and All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body by Burlison.
Filmed by A Radical Guide at the Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA on December 9, 2019.
