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Witches : the transformative power of women working together / Sam George-Allen

Author
George-Allen, Sam
Published
Brooklyn : Melville House, [2020]
Physical Description
278 pages ; 21 cm

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Contents
Teen girls: this emotion -- Girl bands: In concert -- Make-up: The beauty club -- Sports women: The body is a verb -- Trans women: Transitioning to girl power -- Midwives: Maga gravida -- Sex workers: Laws of Babylon -- Farmers: Turning the Earth -- Matriarchal societies: Imagining Themyscira -- Nuns: a radical order -- Aunty dawn daylight: Dawn in Brisbane -- Witches: The crone.
Summary
"A celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the “cool girl” or the “catty workplace”. Covens. Girl Bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of necessity, of support. In Witches, Sam George-Allen explores how wherever women gather, magic happens. Female farmers change the way we grow our food. Online beauty communities democratize skin-care rituals. And more than any other demographic, it’s teen girls that shape our culture. Patriarchal societies have long been content to champion boys’ clubs, while viewing groups that exclude men as sites of rivalry and suspicion. This deeply personal investigation takes us from our workplaces to our social circles, surveying our heroes, our outcasts, and ourselves, in order to dismantle the persistent and pernicious cultural myth of female isolation and competition . . . once and for all."--Publisher's website.
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9781612198347 (pbk.)
1612198341
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