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Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive, by Kristen J. Sollee
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“A whirlwind history of the witch in America and her shared history with sexually liberated women and radical liberationary politics.” - Kim Kelly, The Guardian“To understand the current misogynistic political climate—and to learn how women wickedly weathered these storms before—look no further than this book.” — Alex Berg, producer and host at The Huffington Post“A Must-Read…If you’re looking for a thoughtful, informed look at the origins of European witchood and slutdom from past to present, then you have stuck gold with Witches, Sluts, Feminists.” – Jessica Reidy, BUST“Part history, part compendium, part feminist grimoire” - Dianca London Potts, NYLON“Informative and irreverent...a wonderfully wild flight through herstory. This tome is a gift that celebrates female power, with all of its danger and delight.” — Pam Grossman, curator, teacher of magical practice, and author of What Is A Witch? “For the first time in my life I felt like I was reading about a history that I was actually part of. — Jacqueline Frances, author of The Beaver Show and Striptastic! “This accessible guide is engrossing and succinct. Each chapter is only a few pages, but don’t let the slimness of the volume fool you. There are no wasted words, for words have intentions, as we well know, and Sollee provides informative background information in each chapter, slowly building on the history of witches, sex positivity, and feminism.” - Nicole Moore, Dear Darkling
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About the Author
Kristen J. Sollee teaches undergraduate gender studies courses at The New School and is the founding editrix of Slutist, an award-winning sex positive feminist website. Her popular Legacy of the Witch charity festival in Brooklyn honors the witch as an icon of female power and persecution through music, art and burlesque.
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Product details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: ThreeL Media (June 20, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0996485279
ISBN-13: 978-0996485272
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#16,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
If you are looking to gain new perspectives and break out of social norms instilled in your brain, this is the book for you. “Witches, Sluts, and Feminists†by Kristen J. Sollée is empowering and absolutely awesome to read. Sollée teaches undergraduate gender studies at the New school and is the founding editrix of Slutist. Sollée main intention in writing this book is to purely provide a deeper and more complex understanding of what it means to have been and be a feminist today.This is why Sollée chooses to backup her claims with different perspectives of people who are also knowledgeable in this topic. However, she states from the very beginning that she does not agree with all the opinions that she mentions in her book, she is just including them because they are a part of the conversation.In this book Sollée is purely offering her honest opinion and thoughts on a topic she is very knowledgeable about. The book starts off by providing the reader with sufficient information of the origin of the witches and its evolving history to the demonic entity we see it as today. Sollée makes a connection between the witches and the confident an unsubmissive women. Sollée adds more information and deeper understanding as the book progresses.In the chapter ‘Twitch of the Tongue: Language as Spell’, Sollée makes an incredibly important point that is so relevant to our society today. Sollée states “And yet, there are women who associate feminist power with the word “slut"(82). Sollée addresses the negative connotations associated with women's empowerment and liberation movements in today's society. However, she doesn't explain why some women feel so negatively about feminism. Just like men need to unlearn sexist behaviors, so do women. In this chapter she encourages her readers to look at the positives of the word SLUT and associate it with “sexual liberation†(82). Which men had been encouraged to explore for a very long time. This chapter was my favorite, just because Sollée thoroughly breaks down the slut shaming culture we all participate in. Female masturbation is a taboo subject as Sollée explains in her chapter, ‘Sex Magic & The Tools Of Pleasure’. In this chapter she talks about the persecution of women for simply masturbating. Some of the stories that are told in this chapter are quite funny. But once you remember women were murder for these idiotic reasons it loses its humor. An example of this can be found on page 88. She writes “After she supposedly made a deal with the devil, the dark one ‘gave her a stick eighteen inches long and a jar of ointment. She would smear the stick with ointment, put it between her legs and say, ‘Go in the devil's name, go!’ and immediately be carried through the air.†It's interesting how anything that means sexual pleasure to the women, suggested something demonic. Although we don't hear these stories today, a similar feeling is still alive today. Sollée does a good job at explaining that feeling. In ‘ Music Witch: Sound as Sorcery’ Sollée addresses the real power of witchcraft. Its represented in empowering music that allows for “deep healing and transformation" (127). Like Sollée says, it's in every art form that aims at healing. It's really empowering to know that all the pain hasn't gone away, but instead transformed into different forms of creativity. I enjoyed reading this book. It doesn't address every single point when it comes to the the relationships between feminist and slut, but it gives you a real good taste of it. It's empowering and eye opening. Like I mentioned before, if you want to gain new and valuable knowledge, read this book.
"Witches, Sluts, Feminists," by Kristen J. Sollee is exactly what you'd think this book is about: witches, sluts, and feminists. It is an entertaining yet also very informative. We live in an era where if someone calls you a witch or a slut, we are automatically offended. But this book tells us that we should use those words as an insult but should embrace our inner witch and our inner slut too.One of the chapters that I read, "Ghost Bitch U.S.A" really stood out to me in a way that made me realize, in what a sick and disturbing world we live in now, and have been also decades ago. Innocent woman were hanged as a result of others believing they were witches."Puritan men hanged their wives, sisters, mothers, their female landowners...,"They are all coincidentally all women. What does this mean? It means that the only requisite in being considered to be a witch was that you simply had to just be a women. If thought of as a witch it gave men the right to hang you. This chapter angered me, because of the facts that was spitting right to my face, how could women be treated so horribly and inhumane? It shocks me. This chapter talks about the Salem witch trials that occurred in 1693, if you really think about it this happened so many years ago but change hasn't really been present, women are still being treated inhumanely.Next chapter I found truly interesting was, " Undressing the witch: Fashion, Style, and Sartorial Spells," I am really glad this topic was introduced in this book its such a major issue we are going through today. "The length of a hemline, the tightness of a blouse... have been used in courts to sway judges to believes victim of sexual assault was 'asking for it' through her outfit."There are really some men out there that tend to think that how a girl is dressed means she is consenting, which is absolutely ridiculous. This was my favorite chapter out this book.Next chapter, "Music Witch: Sounds as Sorcery," this chapter was very pleasing, how she mentioned Beyonce as being a witch, not to be taken the wrong way witch in this book is talked about as positive. She mentions one of the most influential artists to show how music is being used to embrace your inner witchiness and slutiness.This was a new and different book from others book i have read, but im glad i did. It was satisfying to see how we are embracing our inner witch and slut, and feminism. I also like how it creates awareness, which is much needed, if we want to create change. Overall I really enjoyed reading this book and would definitely would recommend.
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