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Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

By: Justyna Sempruch

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Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

By: Justyna Sempruch

In Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature, Justyna Sempruch analyzes contemporary representations of the “witch” as a locus for the cultural negotiation of genders. Sempruch revisits some of the most prominent traits in past and current perceptions in feminist scholarship of exclusion and difference. She examines a selection of twentieth-century US American, Canadian, and European narratives to reveal the continued political relevance of metaphors sustained in the archetype of the “witch” widely thought to belong to pop-cultural or folkloristic formulations of the past. Through a critical rereading of the feminist texts engaging with these metaphors, Sempruch develops a new concept of the witch, one that challenges traditional gender-biased theories linking it either to a malevolent “hag” on the margins of culture or to unrestrained “feminine” sexual desire. Sempruch turns, instead, to the causes for radical feminist critique of “feminine” sexuality as a fabrication of logocentric thinking and shows that the problematic conversion of the “hag” into a “superwoman” can be interpreted today as a therapeutic performance translating fixed identity into a site of continuous negotiation of the subject in process. Tracing the development of feminist constructs of the witch from 1970s radical texts to the present, Sempruch explores the early psychoanalytical writings of Cixous, Kristeva, and Irigaray, and feminist reformulations of identity by Butler and Braidotti, with fictional texts from different political and cultural contexts.

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Lincoln's Censor

Milo Hascall and Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana

By: David W. Bulla,Justyna Sempruch

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Lincoln's Censor

Milo Hascall and Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana

By: David W. Bulla,Justyna Sempruch

Lincoln's Censor examines the effect of government suppression on the Democratic press in Indiana during the spring of 1863. Indiana's Democratic newspaper editors were subject to Milo S. Hascall's General Order Number Nine, which proclaimed that all newspaper editors and public speakers that encouraged resistance to the draft or any other war measure would be treated as traitors. Brigadier General Hascall, commander of the District of Indiana, was amplifying General Order Number Thirty-eight of Major General Ambrose Everts Burnside, the commander of the Department of the Ohio. Burnside's order declared that criticism of the president and the war effort was tantamount to "declaring sympathies with the enemy." Eleven Democratic newspapers in Indiana faced suspension." "The author found that Democratic newspapers in majority Republican counties were more likely to face suppression, even if constraints on the Democratic press were more necessary in majority Democratic counties. The study concludes that while a temporary chilling effect occurred in Indiana, the free-press tradition survived in the long run."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

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Lincoln's Censor

Milo Hascall and Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana

By: David W. Bulla,Justyna Sempruch

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Milo Hascall and Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana

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Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

Lincoln's Censor

Lincoln's Censor

Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

Lincoln's Censor

Lincoln's Censor

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