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Ratting out your mom? Was necessary for your very survival in Salem in 1692.

“In 1692,” Schiff begins, the Massachussets Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft. The sorcery materialized in January. The first hanging took place in June, the last in September; a stark, stunned silence followed. What discomfited those who survived the ordeal was not the cunning practice of witchcraft but the…

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Written in a blaze of anger and indignation

Ehrenreich writes an introduction for this reprint of a 1973 classic, and as she says …we have to remind ourselves that WMN was written in a blaze of anger and indignation. This book was contemporaneous with Our Bodies, Ourselves, the feminist text on the female body. It enlightened a generation of women who until then had taken…

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It was, of course, all about the money.

I was incredibly lucky to have been raised by a mother who never said “You can’t do that, honey, you’re a girl,” so I never paid enough attention to the women’s rights movement. So it’s lucky Collins wrote this definitive history, so I can read about Lois Rabinowitz getting thrown out of a NYC court…

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