Mona Chollet

I’m all the more looking forward to reading Matilda Joslyn Gage’s book Women, Church, and State. It’s on my coffee table, but so are many books.
After (or before, or while) reading this book, I recommend you read these books (many of which are referenced in this book):

Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts by Barstow

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

Waking the Witch by Pam Grossman

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit… (altro)

There’s so much going on here, and I loved how the author covered it all. She uses the history of women accused and murdered for being witches and then breaks down the perceptions and expectations into four main chapters which cover single women, childless women, old women, and how women are used in nature/science/medicine (I’m still deconstructing that last one). I really should try to get back into some of the French I learned in college as many of the resources cited are in the author’s native French, but I appreciated all her references and hope to learn more from them.… (altro)