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Lecture Three: The Body in Today’s Reproductive Crisis
From: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
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Part 1 of this title consists of three lectures by feminist scholar Silvia Federici. In this lecture, Federici discusses how regaining control over our sexual and reproductive capacity is essential in combating the medical, cognitive, procreative, and ecological crises that the western world is facing.
Contributors
Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In1972, she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective, which launched the Wages for Housework campaign. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement. She is one of the cofounders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. From 1987 to 2005, she taught international studies, women’s studies, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.
