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Witches as Girls

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Feminist Afterlives of the Witch

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The figure of the girl as a symbol of feminist politics has becoming increasingly prominent over the twenty-first century within both popular culture and in activism more broadly. In this chapter, I consider different girl witches in popular, long-form, young adult texts to consider how the girl witch invokes different memories of feminist politics. As an inherently future-oriented subject, girls offer productive avenues to consider the political and temporal implications of feminist memory as it operates across popular culture. Texts which construct the girl witch as a symbol of reproductive futurity, which draw on postfeminist girl power narratives, and which identify the girl witch as a symbol of emerging ‘cool’ or ‘popular’ feminisms are analysed.

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Kosmina, B. (2023). Witches as Girls. In: Feminist Afterlives of the Witch. Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25292-1_7

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