Resisting Rhetorics of Violence

Women, Witches and Wicca

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14948896
AutoresJo Pearson (autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas141-159
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0966-7350 • E-ISSN: 1745-5189
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0966735009348669
OpenAlexW2047754571
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

This article examines the early modern idea of‘the witch as a violent space —both as a perpetrator of violent maleficia and as a victim of violence. It then goes on to look at the extent to which the location of violence in the witch figure has been taken up and used by feminist witches and Wiccans, asking what happens when a polyvalent symbol of violence is used as a central identificatory trope. The fact that the violence of the witch is now largely resisted by Wiccans leads me to question how much this resistance is based on a desire to accommodate greater knowledge of witchcraft historiography and an unwillingness to engage in a false rhetoric centred on the violence of abstraction and exclusion. Through an exploration of the rhetorics of violence surrounding representations of ‘the Witch’, I aim to extend analysis of the witch and witchcraft into the contexts of contemporary Feminist Witchcraft and Wicca

Art · Criminology · Historiography · Literature · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Witch · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices