Witches, Sluts, Feminists

Conjuring the Sex Positive

Kristen J. Sollee

• Publisher: ThreeL Media
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780996485272
• eBook ISBN: 9780996485289
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

"Like being deemed a witch hundreds of years ago, being presumed a slut today is cause for ostracism, abuse, and death."... Archetypes of "witch" and "slut" have been used to police female sexuality and punish women; now, feminists are reclaiming them as positive affirmations. This book unearths the sex positive feminist legacy of the witch in art, music, politics, and popular culture, connecting the fictional witch we love to emulate and fear with real women, past and present.

Kristen J. Sollee is instructor at The New School and founding editrix of Slutist, an award-winning sex positive feminist website.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Witches, Sluts, Feminists
• Witch Slut Are You? The Medieval to the Modern
• All-American Witch: Salem’s Legacy
• The Midwife: Bestial Bodies - Reproductive Rights
• Political Witch: Rebellion - Revolution
• Hillary Clinton: Wicked Witch of the Left
• Art Witch: Wanton Woodcuts - Domestic Goddesses
• Ghost Bitch U.S.A.
• Tituba’s Legacy
• Twitch of the Tongue: Language as Spell
• Sex Magic - the Tools of Pleasure
• The Spell of Seduction: Sex Work - the Sacred Whore
• Queering the Witch: Porn, Pleasure - Representation
• Undressing the Witch: Fashion, Style - Sartorial Spells
• Witchcraft On Screen: Living Deliciously
• The Coven: Crafting Feminist Community
• Music Witch: Sound as Sorcery
• Hex Sells: Feminism, Capitalism - the Witch
• Tech Witch: Online Activism - the Digital Mystic
• The Legacy of the Witch
• What Is a Witch? Survey
• Interview with a Witch
• Works Cited
• Acknowledgments