Over the past year our collective awareness has heightened about the limits of human domination, and it is increasingly difficult to feel empowered in the face of continuous human damage to the natural world. And so we turn to Sisters of the Wind, a mixed-media installation by French artist Juliette Lizotte (also known as jujulove).
To attune ourselves to its great powers both to destroy and to create, that is, to its unpredictability and to its magic.īecoming increasingly alienated from our surroundings we could use a little practice with attunement. Sisters, the wind is coming, and it is asking us to attune ourselves to it carefully and rigorously. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who seek to live their lives on their own terms"- Provided by publisher.ABOUT SISTERS OF THE WIND Emma van Meyeren Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society's seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct heirs to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons.
"Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a "brilliant, well-documented" celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.
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