Rec | WITCH HUNTS: A GLOBAL PROBLEM IN THE 21ST CENTURY – DW

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Witch hunts: A global problem in the 21st century – DW – 08/10/2020

This is really sad to read. Hopefully people take a more reasonable approach to disagreements and social, cultural and economic disparities. I got this article from Witches in British Art by The Crossroads Gazette. It talks about the transformation of witches in art and culture, mentioning the demonization of, particularly women, that still goes on to this day. Loved both reads.

@mariamaria

Jan 6, 2025

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@mariamaria

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female hysteria

my first thoughts arepartly echoing / building off what elmimiloco said!! the primary basis for second wave feminism was the need to address women's treatment in the home both through unrecognized/unpaid labor (+ "the second shift" for working women) and domestic violence so the home is certainly a source of many real-life horrors for women in terms of gothic — i think of stories like the yellow wallpaper that are inspired by the horror of being trapped, controlled even within what are supposed to be safe four walls, which is unfortunately what far too many women deal with in the real world too. also worth noting that female hysteria as a concept was really made popular in Victorian times and it was one of the top medical “conditions” reported in women in that era, and it wasn’t fully removed from the DSM until 1980…! the haunting of hill house has a woman supposedly losing touch w reality (faced with being haunted, which again comes up in another female-focused gothic horror story i was thinking of (recently read) that mostly takes place in a home, carmilla - which follows a young girl slowly falling into the trap of a (heavily queer-coded) vampire who was invited to stay with them. carmilla has anti lesbian themes related to the ”dangers” of that sort of behavior/closeness btwn women. in goth horror most of what i’ve read has felt like: women’s autonomy = portrayed as dangerous by men; women’s lack of autonomy = portrayed as dangerous by women authors, which i think relates closely to the ways hysteria was constructed back then

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