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In Defense of Witches takes witches — unmarried, childless, strong, independent women in control of their future, their time, and their sexuality — and uses those elements to explore how women who possessed those attributes, or who simply failed to comply with what men wanted of them, were accused of witchcraft and persecuted. Then the book focuses on how modern women who are independent, childless, and elderly must still deal with some of the same pressures as the witches of old did. Chollet celebrates not only the witches of the past, but also the so-called “witches” of today: independent women who have chosen not to have children, aren’t always coupled, often defy traditional beauty norms (letting their hair go gray), and thus operate outside the established social order....“In Defense of Witches” explores how women who assert their powers are too often seen as a threat to men and society, how those who don’t bear children are too often seen as a disturbing anomaly and how women at middle age too often disappear....Chollet’s work has broken ground and provided important pushback. “In Defense of Witches” demonstrates that a woman’s decision to go against the grain — especially by not having children — inevitably becomes a political act, even an act of resistance. In this spirited yet uneven polemic, journalist Chollet traces misogynistic attitudes in Western society back to witch hunts that occurred in Europe and the U.S. from the 1300s to the 1700s. These periodic public tortures and executions of women “induced all women to be discreet, docile, and submissive,” according to Chollet, and drove them into an acceptance of the “gendered division of labor required by capitalism.” ... Though her iconoclastic wit shines, Chollet’s provocations ultimately come across as more defensive than revolutionary. This call for change feels like old news.
Brujas es un libro cautivador e indispensable, en el que la autora hace de la brujería una grandiosa metáfora feminista. Mona Chollet reflexiona, en este brillante ensayo, sobre la herencia patriarcal en el pensamiento europeo, desde la caza de brujas hasta la actualidad. Este libro explora tres estereotipos de mujer y el proceso que condujo a su estigmatización, así como lo que queda en la actualidad de esa visión, tanto en nuestros prejuicios como en nuestras representaciones: la mujer independiente, puesto que viudas y solteras fueron especial mente perseguidas; la mujer sin hijos, puesto que la época de las persecuciones señaló el fin de la tolerancia hacia las que pretendían controlar su fertilidad; y la mujer mayor, convertida desde entonces en objeto de aversión. «¡Temblad, vuelven las brujas!» Un revolucionario ensayo feminista que equipara a las mujeres liberadas de nuestro tiempo con aquellas que fueron condenadas a la hoguera. MÁS DE 75.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN FRANCIA ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Witches is a captivating, essential book, in which the author turns witchcraft into a magnificent feminist metaphor. In this brilliant essay, Mona Chollet reflects about the patriarchal heritage of European thought, from the time of witch hunts until today. This book explores three stereotypes of women and the process that led to their stigmatization, as well as what remains today of that vision in our prejudices and our symbols: the independent woman, since widows and single women were especially persecuted; childless women, since the era of persecution marked the end of tolerance toward those who tried to control women's fertility; and older women, who have become an object of aversion. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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