In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet

In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet with Sophie R. Lewis (Translator)

304 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A short, feminist polemic that argues that the afterlife of the witch hunts continues today: the same reasons for which women were demonized in the past - being single, ageing, deciding to not have children - lead to them be persecuted now.

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