the witch-hunts paved the way for the gendered labor division required by capitalism, reserving remunerated work for men and assigning to women the birthing and education of the future labor-force.69 This division has endured into the present day: women are free to have children or not … on condition they choose to have them. Those who choose not to are often likened to heartless creatures, obscurely evil and malevolent toward the children of others
