lifelong activist and best-selling author Silvia Federici examines these complex processes

whom she crowns ‘the first ordinary woman in English literature

they make us possible

First published in 1972

Paradise Rot - A Novel (New Edition) Basic Books lifelong activist and best-selling authorA favourite book of Hanna Mattes, selected for our 2019 Rewind. A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery. Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jos sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened