Witches
Witch Stories
First Edition
Witches! Be afraid. They're back... Witches are among us. No feminist event is complete without a reminder of this historical figure that has populated our collective imagination for centuries. Read More
'We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn’, they proclaimed back in 1968 already. Fifty years later, how can we explain the current resurgence of the figure of the witch?
Witches were hunted down, tortured and, for tens of thousands of them, burned. They were accused of entering a pact
with the devil, of participating in orgies and of devouring children. These witches fascinate us as much as they haunted our childhood dreams.
This exhibition wants to establish a dialogue between the witches of yesterday and today. Through art, archives, cinema, dance, song, comics, performance and a touch of magic, the exhibition Witches questions the figure of the witch, explores both the way in which she has filled our collective imagination and her representation across the centuries, and examines her relevance today.
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Specifications
- Publisher
- Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles
- Contributions by
- Paul Aron, Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz, Bernard Dan, Sandrine Detandt, Vincent Fontana, Maxime Gelly-Perbellini, Caroline Godart, Nathalie Grandjean, Laure Guilbert, Fabien Lacouture, Clémence Mathieu, Charlotte Pezeril, Olivier Schmitz, Isabelle Stengers, Pierre Tchekov, Tania Van Hemelryck,
- Edited by
- Valérie Piette,
- Language
- English
- Publisher Category
- Publishers own classification > History
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3667 ARTS ET BEAUX LIVRES > 3377 HISTOIRE > 3378 Histoire générale et thématique
- Title First Published
- 04 November 2021
Paperback
- Product Detail
- 1
- Publication Date
- 04 November 2021
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-8004-1785-1
- Extent
- Total numbered pages : 208
- Code
- 1785
- Dimensions
- 160 x 240 x 1.5 cm
- Weight
- 504 grams
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
INTRODUCTION – Witches! Be afraid. They're back…
Part one – Witches... feminists like any others?
Neither defeated, nor submissive... nor burned When witches rise from their ashes | Valérie Piette
Political struggles against capitalism and the patriarchy | Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz
Appropriation of bodies – My body is hers/theirs | Valérie Piette
Contradictory emancipations and magical subversions: do witches get laid? | Sandrine Detandt, Valérie Piette
Part two – Once upon a time there were witches
Christine and the bitches... The 'Woman Question' in the fifteenth century | Tania Van Hemelryck
How did witchcraft become a crime? | Maxime Gelly-Perbellini
Imagining the sabbath | Maxime Gelly-Perbellini
Fantasies about demonic relations and a focus on female bodies | Maxime Gelly-Perbellini
'Nothing irritates a man more than a woman who dances’ (Paracelsus, 16thcentury physician) | Valérie Piette
Part three – The witch shaking things up: classified, degraded, dreamed, imagined, fantasized
Weak women: from diabolical illusion to madness, even crime? A paradigm shift | Sandrine Detandt, Bernard Dan
The old woman, an image of evil? | Fabien Lacouture
Fabulous literatures | Paul Aron
Reappropriations | Paul Aron
Witches on the big screen | Vincent Fontana
The carnival witch | Clémence Mathieu
Part four – The granddaughters of witches: when witches reinvent themselves
Magic, witchcraft and divination | Pierre Tchekhov
Witchcraft as a therapeutic method | Olivier Schmitz
If old women are no longer women... then maybe they’re witches | Nathalie Grandjean
From witches as victims of capitalism to rituals breaking the spell of finance | Charlotte Pezeril
Patriarchy, capitalism and nature: the critical tangle of witches | Nathalie Grandjean
An ambiguous return to nature | Laure Guilbert
Magic as resistance and counterculture | Caroline Godart
When God was a woman | Caroline Godart
The granddaughters of witches | Isabelle Stengers