{"id":336,"date":"2021-06-28T07:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/magic\/?p=336"},"modified":"2021-06-28T07:49:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:49:55","slug":"the-witch-studies-reader-call-for-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/magic\/2021\/06\/28\/the-witch-studies-reader-call-for-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bThe Witch Studies Reader \u200bCall for Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Co-edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">Deadline to submit a 500 to 750-word abstract:<strong>\u00a0August 1st, 2021<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janewardphd.com\/the-witch-studies-reader.html\">https:\/\/www.janewardphd.com\/the-witch-studies-reader.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;we are calling for chapter proposals that illuminate\u00a0how feminists can make sense of the witch\u2014her power\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0her persecution\u2014in ways that take account of the vastly different national, political-economic, and cultural contexts in which she is currently being claimed and repudiated.\u00a0\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Witch Studies Reader<\/em>, being prepared for Duke University Press, will dive deep into this question, revealing the current era to be a time of feminist celebration of witchcraft in many parts of the global North, and a time of continued violence and death for women accused of witchcraft in many parts of the global South. 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