In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial

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J'ai l'impression qu'elle est passée à côté de quelque chose parce qu'elle voulait faire un livre pour les gens comme elles, meufs hétéros ayant besoin qu'on les autorise à refuser la maternité, et c'est très bien que ce soit là, mais à mobiliser la figure de la sorcière, très présente dans la culture queer, elle aurait pu se fendre déjà d'une admission de ce lien, et ensuite explorer justement des couples queer de sorcières contemporaines avec des enfants (car il y en a plein)!

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We know misogyny remains rife, and that the idea of the "witch" has also been co-opted by anti-feminists, who use it to denigrate powerful women.A further problem stems from Chollet's decision to structure her book around what she claims as three "archetypes" from the witch-hunts. It was a small symbolic step—I knew it didn’t mean that women were equal, but it was important to at least announce to the world my intent to be free.

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With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witchesseeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who seek to live their lives on their own terms. Mais son contrat est interrompu en 2000 après sa contestation d'un éditorial du directeur de la rédaction Philippe Val, qui qualifiait les Palestiniens de « non-civilisés ». This tension between our need for security in love and our need for freedom is largely common to men and women; this is what makes exclusive relationships both so desirable and so problematic. I wish this book went more beyond the fairly white, cisgendered centered approach (she does a decent job pointing out how much indigenous and Black cultures are involved in the history though), though this is also Chollet’s world and experience so I’d like to read another similar book on different cultural histories of witchcraft from an author that would be a good authority on the subject.She discusses how the women who exist outside of the boundaries of patriarchal control are deemed to be villainous and morally corrupt. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.

In Defence of Witches by Mona Chollet, Sophie R Lewis In Defence of Witches by Mona Chollet, Sophie R Lewis

The characterisation of witches as hags, sorcerers, temptresses, child murderers, evil incarnate over the course of centuries is the focus of the Swiss-French feminist Mona Chollet's In Defence of Witches, which seeks to reclaim this denigrated figure for modern women. A smart feminist treatise reclaiming the witch and her radical way of life as a path forward for women…. This lends a tragic dimension to Sybylla’s decision, but also allows her to take a radical stance: yes, a woman too may choose above all to pursue her vocation. Sociologist Érika Flahault shows how this skepticism has been expressed in France since the appearance, in the early twentieth century, of single women living alone—where they would once have been “taken in by relations, by their extended family or local community in almost every case.Nothing in the way most girls are educated encourages them to believe in their own strength and abilities, nor to cultivate and value their independence. It was as if failing to be a mother was the single most sinful thing a woman could do - as if it was a woman's sole obligation and purpose to have children.

In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial

With sleek black hair, pale make-up and ferociously sensitive nostrils, she epitomised a femme fatale figure, whose evil ways lay just beneath the shellacked surface. Whilst it’s great to see women reclaim the villains of old, should we consider it radical for women to simply exist? m'a donné envie de vieillir avec sérénité, d'avoir un jour peut être des enfants parce que je le veux vraiment, de changer le monde et de me révolter contre les injustices faites aux femmes. But, even then, it seemed unthinkable for many activists that a woman could be heterosexual and not wish to marry; “at least until Gloria came along. Chollet's contention is that, several centuries on, these same types of women are having the same charges levelled against them.It even goes so far as to how professions and jobs can become connotated as more “women's work” and how feminized careers are often less financially compensated, respected, and frequently expected to take on labor—particularly emotional labor—beyond their job description (as someone working in libraries, a job she mentions as ‘feminized’, yep).