Silvia Federici este activistă feministă, profesor emerit şi teaching fellow la Hofstra University, fost profesor în Nigeria, cofondatoare (impreuna cu George Caffentzis) a Comitetului pentru Libertate Academică în Africa (Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa) şi membru al Midnight Notes Collective. Carfli: Wages Against Housework, Falling Wall Press, 1975; Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its „Others“, Praeger, 1995; A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities,Trenton, Africa World Press, 2000 (coeditare); African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa, Praeger, 2000; Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation, Autonomedia, 2004; Good Times! Bad Times! An Introduction to the Capitalist Crisis and What it Means for Us,56aInfoshop, 2009 (alături de Alain Badiou, George Caffentzis şi Mario Tronti).
