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How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
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2025
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2 editions
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Anywhere's Better Than Here
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2012
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5 editions
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New Writing Dundee 7
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New Writing Dundee 6
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“This may seem unrelated, but we need to be clear that the gendered aspect of the witch trials did not go away after the trials. The fear and hatred seen in our society over three hundred years later are a straight line drawn from those days and attitudes. We must find a way to break this inheritance and put it firmly in the past, and we argue that understanding the drivers of the trials and the part that was played by embedded, often unconscious ideas about women, their worth, and their "danger" is an excellent method of confronting the past and changing the future.”
― How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
― How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
“The belief in magic, then, real as it was, did not cause the bloody horror of the witchcraft trials. The causes of those? Oh, they were very much man-made.”
― How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
― How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
“Just as in the days of the witch trials, as the global situation worsens, people become more and more fearful. The current febrile political environment often veers dangerously to the right. Many of us anxiously contemplate the present and future realities of the climate crisis, struggle with the financial and social pressures of modern life, watch on in impotent horror at the seemingly constant worldwide conficts — all while actively participating in the emotionally heightening petri dish that is social media
We must take great care to guard against a new iteration of the witch trials.”
― How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
We must take great care to guard against a new iteration of the witch trials.”
― How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
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