LEADER 04639nam 22006735 450 001 9910686785403321 005 20230331153045.0 010 $a3-031-25292-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-25292-1 035 $a(CKB)5590000001034543 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-25292-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7233648 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7233648 035 $a(OCoLC)1385454868 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000001034543 100 $a20230331d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFeminist Afterlives of the Witch$b[electronic resource] $ePopular Culture, Memory, Activism /$fby Brydie Kosmina 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 262 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender,$x2662-9372 311 $a3-031-25291-8 327 $aChapter 1: Witch: A Feminist Memory -- Chapter 2: Witches and the Past -- Chapter 3: Witches and the Present- Chapter 4: Witches as Monsters -- Chapter 5: Witches as Lovers -- Chapter 6: Witches as Mothers -- Chapter 7: Witches as Girls -- Chapter 8: Witches and the Future. 330 $a"Brydie Kosmina?s book is a smart, topical study of the figure of the witch in contemporary culture, sensitive and thought-provoking in its approach and written with flair and passion." --Professor Marion Gibson, University of Exeter, Devon UK. The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory, politics, activism, and popular culture. The witch demonstrates the inheritance of paradoxical pasts, traversing numerous ideological memoryscapes. This book is an examination of the ways that the witch has been deployed by feminist activists and writers in their political efforts in the twentieth century, and how this has indelibly affected cultural memories of the witch and the witch trials, and how this plays out in popular culture representations of the symbol through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, this book considers the relationship between popular culture and media, activist politics, and cultural memory. Using hauntological theories of memory and temporality, and literary, screen, and cultural studies methodologies, this book considers how popular culture remembers, misremembers, and forgets usable pasts, and the uses (and misuses) of these memories for feminist politics. Given the ubiquity of the witch in popular culture, politics and activism since 2016, this book is a timely examination of the range of meanings inherent to the figure, and is an important study of how cultural symbols like the witch inherit paradoxical memories, histories, and politics. The book will be valuable for scholars across disciplines, including witchcraft studies, feminist philosophy and history, memory studies, and popular culture studies. Brydie Kosmina is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in Tarndanya/Adelaide. Her research covers feminist memory, politics and popular culture, and the environmental humanities, particularly nuclear studies. She teaches and lectures in literary, screen and cultural studies. Brydie is a Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Representative to the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, and works as an editor, writer and reviewer for indie arts and culture website Collage Adelaide. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender,$x2662-9372 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aGender identity in mass media 606 $aSex 606 $aWomen?History 606 $aCollective memory 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aMedia and Gender 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aWomen's History / History of Gender 606 $aMemory Studies 615 0$aPopular Culture. 615 0$aGender identity in mass media. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aWomen?History. 615 0$aCollective memory. 615 14$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aMedia and Gender. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aWomen's History / History of Gender. 615 24$aMemory Studies. 676 $a306 700 $aKosmina$b Brydie$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01353476 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910686785403321 996 $aFeminist Afterlives of the Witch$93255637 997 $aUNINA