Honesty about gender relations in the context of global capitalism is key, Federici argues, to creating the new world of equity and sustainability between and among people of all genders. |9781629635682|, "Undoing patriarchy is a gargantuan process. By extension, one could argue that the flagrant misuse of the term 'witch hunt' as a political meme also abuses the memory of those who were actually hunted as witches. Trivializing the death of those convicted of witchcraft-mainly women-is a form of violence, and Federici challenges us to consider that 'denouncing the commerce made of women's bodies and their death to boost tourism' is an important step in toppling patriarchal domination. The trials have become a major part of the town's culture and economy, unimpeded by the small detail that Danvers, one town over from present-day Salem, was the actual site for most of the witch trials. In her new monograph, Witches, Witch Hunting, and Women, Silvia Federici condemns the commercialization of sites of witch hunts in Europe: 'Sites of famous trials and persecutions that led to the execution of dozens of women are now parading in shop after shop doll-like representations of witches.' In Salem, the exploitation of this suffering is perhaps still more extreme, especially around Halloween.
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