In her book Caliban and the Witch (PLEASE READ THIS BOOK: it’s heavy going, but it’s so worth it! It’s been influential in educating me and in what I share here), Silvia Federici says that the witch hunts introduced a system of terror to ALL women. And from that system emerged a new, much more acceptable model of femininity to which women would have to conform in order to be socially accepted in the developing capitalist society.
