Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
Published 2004 · 79,200 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation to read?
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation scores 64 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 65 out of 100
- Marxist-feminist and historical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Formal academic sentences in translation.
- Abstraction: 75 out of 100
- Primitive accumulation reread through the body.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Very dense with historical material across centuries.
How Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation is regarded
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation holds a literary regard score of 69 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.