This week, we’d like you to find and read a critical article and respond to it in your posting. Kathryn Rountree’s 1997 Journal of Popular Culture article, “The New Witch of the West: Feminists Reclaim the Crone,” explores a feminist movement to re-examine “the witch and the goddess as images of womanhood” (Rountree 211). This article is available, full-text, from the MLA International Bibliography database, and we talked about accessing it in class.
According to Rountree, the women participating in feminist witch movement claim that, rather than existing as opposites, the witch and the goddess are one and that ordinary women can self-identify with both. Rountree is not advocating for the feminist witch lifestyle, nor is she demeaning it. Rather, her essay charts her process of understanding this movement and researching its participants. She begins (like we did in last week’s posting) by tracking her exposure to witchcraft and witches, leading us through her current understanding of the feminist witch social movement.
Please respond to this essay, incorporating your own developing understanding of witches and witchcraft. What are you reactions to this movement? Have you seen elements of this process of reclaiming agency in your own life?
Please remember to post by 8am Thursday morning and respond to 3 of your classmates’ posts by 5pm on Friday.
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I will post my response as soon as I can... work on Wednesday nights kinda screw things up for me, I SHOULD have written down the prompt, but alas, I didn't. Could prompts be posted on the blog a little bit earlier?
Anyways, I will be out of my morning class around noon. I hope to post shortly after that.
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