Posted on October 30, 2020
by candacerobbbooks
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I’ve been exploring what it means to label someone a “witch”, not in the sense of name-calling, but when claiming that someone practices “witchcraft”. That depends on when and where it occurs, and who is doing the labeling. So what was going on with the idea of a witch in Magda’s time?
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And now for some fun with Julie Chappell and Mallory Young, the editors of Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film. While gathering my thoughts and impressions to compose a review of the clever and timely anthology they’d assembled, I… Continue Reading “Q&A with the editors of Bad Girls & Transgressive Women”
Category: Q&A, Writing Women's LivesTags: #metoo, Bad Girls and Transgressive Women, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dragoş Manea, Elizabeth Johnston, feminist, Joss Whedon, Julie A Chappell, Kaley Kramer, Kate Waites, Kirsten Saxton, Madeline Miller, Mallory Young, Medusa, Mihaela Precup, Saga, Vera Caspary