5 Week 03

Due Sunday, September 10th, by midnight. Word count: 300 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. Absolutely no quotes should be used. If you paraphrase from the text (from Federici or anywhere else), you must be sure to include the proper citation (either MLA or APA). Late assignments will be accepted for partial credit if they are submitted no later than one week after the original deadline.

Much like Angela Davis, Silvia Federici underlines the relationship of oppression based on race and class to political and economic conditions. In “The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women,” Federici explains how land privatization structured a new social hierarchy emerging in Europe after the 1500s. Summarize one or two events described in this chapter and then explain how these events are related to the “degradation of women.”