Episode 10. Witches Bitches

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Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate we're talking...Witches! How has the figure of the witch been perpetuated and represented throughout history? Who were the people most persecuted at the height of the western witchcraft trials of the 16th and 17th Centuries? Can a line be drawn from the centralisation of wealth and power, away from supposed witches and ‘female’ knowledge to the neoliberal patriarchal nightmare we live in today? Well…yeah. Obvs. Show Notes Silvia Federici, 'Caliban and the Witch' (2004) Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English, 'Witches, Midwives and Nurses, A history of Women Healers’ (2015) Unobscured Podcast, Aaron Mehnke (2018) https://historyunobscured.com Benjamin Marschke, “Witches: Sex and Science in the 16th Century.” (2016) Humboldt State University ‘Favourite Lecture Series’ https://bit.ly/2EGVbWI Edited by Alex Griffiths https://soundcloud.com/alex_g87