How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches: Sylvia Federici’s new book explains how violence against women was a precondition for capitalism. Sady Doyle, In These Times, Jan 31, 2019 Illustration by Johnny Miller, Federici traces how capitalism affects and infects the “private,” feminine sphere of unwaged domestic and reproductive work. The Italian socialist feminist Silvia Federici is mandatory reading to understand gender politics in …