My Father, the Murderer - A Reckoning with the Past

Nina Young

This was Nina Young's shocking realisation in her mid-twenties, when she found out from online court records that her estranged father, Allan Ladd, had strangled a woman to death decades before. In prison he'd met Denise, Nina's mother, who was his tutor. Although Denise didn't know the extent of Allan'...

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

From the peasant revolts to the Great European Witch Hunt- the crushing of occult traditions and women's reproductive freedom in the transition to capitalism.  A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the t...