Every era has its witches. And its bitches.
In this opening arc of Season 2, From Witches to Trad Wives, we trace the long shadow of moral panic around women—from the burning stakes to the culture wars.
Drawing on Becca’s research for her upcoming book on moral panics, we explore how power, purity, and fear shape women’s stories, and why the figure of the “dangerous woman” keeps coming back.
This episode sets the stage, unpacking what a moral panic is, how it works, and why the witch has never really gone away.
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Sources
Title: Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
A Quantitative Evaluation of Demographic, Gender and Social Transformation Theories
of the Rise of European Witch Hunting 1300-1500
Author(s): Philip Smith
Source: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 1992, Vol. 17, No. 4 (64)
(1992), pp. 99-127
