Silvia Federici
is a feminist activist and renowned political theorist who co-founded the International Feminist Collective in 1972, launching the “Wages for Housework” campaign internationally. Her published works include Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004) and Revolution at Point Zero (2012). As professor emerita at Hofstra University, Federici has highlighted capitalism's overlooked subjugation of women's productive and reproductive labor in Marxian theory. She is recognized for her scholarship on resistance to capitalist globalization and her development of feminist commons theory.