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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
6 reviews
ka_ke's review
4.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Rape, Religious bigotry, Violence, Body horror, Torture, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Classism, Cursing, and Sexual violence
Minor: Domestic abuse, Blood, Chronic illness, and Abandonment
serendipitysbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Violence
georgiaand's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Misogyny and Violence
Minor: Antisemitism
moraina's review
3.5
That being said, this book was an absolute slough to get through. With many references to magazines, movies, and books that I’d rarely heard of, I struggled to understand the illustrated point for much of the book. This book is also translated from French, so many of these references are probably quite relevant to French culture, but totally lost on an American reader. She did reference many American movies and authors as well, but many were from the 1980s or earlier, so again lost on a 25-year-old reader that doesn’t have an academic background on this subject.
Additionally, I did take issue with huge parts of the book being quotes from other works. My lack of understanding the references aside, I wanted to hear more of the author’s viewpoints or summaries of these works, rather than read paragraphs of quotations. It just felt like it really slowed the book down, and made it difficult to follow the structure and connections she was making between sections. I also agree with other reviews saying that there definitely is not a ton of information to learn about witch trials themselves, it’s more about why the witches of the past were treated the way they were, and how that has persisted in modern society.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, Racism, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Murder
Moderate: Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Antisemitism, Classism, and Colonisation
Trigger warnings aren’t necessarily graphic descriptions in this book, but are talked about in the context of and comparing to feminist issues and historical events.bleuennreads_'s review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Violence, and Sexism
Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Body shaming
lydiavsbooks's review against another edition
4.5
A few favourite points: the villainisation of older women (aka, women who no longer serve a purpose to men): womens reproduction rights and women who are, voluntarily, childless; and the sexism and misogyny in medicine, particularly midwifery, stemming from the fear of 'witch' healers
Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Classism, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse