Assignment 06
In the Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, she talks about the beginning of land privatization, which occur in Europe. She also analyzes how the progression of feudalism to capitalism took place in the and centuries, the segregation of women becoming prominent.
What caught my attention the most was how women suffered the most because man was superior and had more rights. The system was too strict and didn’t allowed women’s vote, words, or ideas. The first thing that came to mind while reading this was what we talked in class; private phase and public phase. Private phase refers to all women and it (not exactly, all white man with property) meant all women had to stay at home doing wife and mother duties. Public phase refers to “all man”, which meant they had the job and freedom to do anything they want. All of this created woman to become dependable on man and allowed capitalism took place faster because they were taking the accumulation of unpaid women labor. In my opination, the capitalism system was created and design to serve the business men man primary. The addition of women to the business industry system is fairly new, leaving women under paid compare to man and constantly fighting for equal salary is the definition of unfairness. Each reading we do in this class helps me understand how and why things happened and why they are like this now. When women were privatized it let to many problems. The outcome of this was an extremely poverty and 100% dependence on men for anything needed and more importantly economically help. Every decision made put every woman down, which let to reduction of families and women’s bodies were controlled. The state worried about the population size by emphasizing marriage, reproduction, and families’ importance. Its incredible how women were treated; they were blame for anything and had to stay quiet. Having all those laws and rules made women look for another way to survive even if it was illegal they did it. anything done by a man was considered good and productive, but something meaningless that a woman did was considered as a problem to society. In my opinion, we still fighting on equal rights. It’s unfair how women have to prove what they are capable of. Federici’s argument is that capitalism was what put completely women down. This was a very detailed and interesting reading.
