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Mormons in Space Revisited
with George Caffentzis
From: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
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In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses, the confluence of far-right ideologies, religious extremism, and space exploration as the end-point of capitalism and the capitalist mission for gaining control over the human body.
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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.