Feminist Constructions of the 'Witch' as a Fantasmatic Other
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5092636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Justyna Sempruch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 113-133 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x04047858 |
| OpenAlex | W2030924449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article analyses the radical feminist formulations of the 'witch', focusing on the second-wave feminist sense of urgency to construct a political 'we' and to create a common identification with the historical oppression of women. The figure of the 'witch' represents here a dimension of (feminist) fantasy that, retrospectively, needs to be seen as a therapeutic attempt both to break through the silence and invisibility of female history and to elevate the notion of female alterity over the complementarity of the phallogocentric system. Conveying the tension between past and present, the 'witch' becomes a crucial metaphor for herstory, that is, a form of feminist mythology constituting an alternative to the established male-centered master-story
Aesthetics · Alterity · Art · Epistemology · Invisibility · Literature · Metaphor · Mythology · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Sociology · Witch · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2021 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |