Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Manifesting Witch Studies 1
5. The Colonial Encounter
6. One. Witchcraft in My Community: Healing Sex and Sexuality 23
7. Two. “What Is a Witch?”: Tituba’s Subjunctive Challenge 34
8. Three. Irish Feminist Witches: Using Witchcraft and Activism to Heal from Violence and Trauma 46
9. Four. Whose Craft?: Contentions on Open and Closed Practice in Contemporary Witchcraft(s) 60
10. II Lineages of Healing
11. Five. “You Deserve, Baby!”: Spiritual Co-creation, Black Witches, and Feminism 75
12. Six. Resurrecting Granny: A Brief Excavation of Appalachian Folk Magic 90
13. Seven. “Some Decks May Be Stacked against Us but This Deck Is Ours”: Justice-Centered Tarot in and against the New Age 105
14. Eight. Ecstatic Desires: Queerness and the Witch’s Body 118
15. Nine. Deitsch Magic Past and Future 131
16. Ten. “We Are Here with Our Rebellious Joy”: Witches and Witchcraft in Turkey 144
17. Eleven. Fortune-Telling, Women’s Friendship, and Divination Commodification in Contemporary Italy 158
18. III Killing the Witch
19. Twelve. A Feminist Theory of Witch Hunts 175
20. Thirteen. Occult Violence and the Savage Slot: Understanding Tanzanian Witch-Killings in Historical and Ethnographic Context 190
21. Fourteen. Going All the Way: From Village to Supreme Court for a Witch-Killing in Central India 205
22. Fifteen. Contemporary Trends in Witch-Hunting in India 219
23. Sixteen. Bewitching Gender History 233
24. IV Art, Aesthetics, and Cultural Production
25. Seventeen. Mista Boo: Portrait of a Drag Witch 249
26. Eighteen. Witching Sound in the Anthropocene (and Occultcene) 262
27. Nineteen. A Witch’s Guide to the Underground: Sixties Counterculture, Dianic Wicca, and the Cultural Trope of the “Witchy Diva” 275
28. Twenty. A Queer Critical Analysis of Contemporary Representations of the Churail in Hindi Film 289
29. Twenty-One. Pakistan’s Churails: Young Feminists Choosing “Witch” Way Is Forward 304
30. Twenty-Two. From “Born This Witch” to “Bad Bitch Witch”: A History of Witch Representation in Western Pop Culture 318
31. Twenty-Three. “I Put a Spell on You and Now You’re Mine”: A Vulvacentric Reading of Witchcraft 331
32. V Protest and Reclaiming
33. Twenty-Four. Hexing the Patriarchy: The Revolutionary Aesthetics of W.I.T.C.H. 347
34. Twenty-Five. Witch-Ins and Other Feminist Acts 361
35. Twenty-Six. Disappearing Acts: Attending “Witch School” in Brooklyn, New York 372
36. Twenty-Seven. We Are All Witches: My Pagan Journey 388
37. VI Witch Epistemologies
38. Twenty-Eight. Witching the Institution: Academia and Feminist Witchcraft 401
39. Twenty-Nine. A Ruderal Witchcraft Manifesto 420
40. Thirty. Feminism as a Demon, or, The Difference Witches Make: Chiara Fumai with Carla Lonzi 436
41. Thirty-One. Religion and Magic through Feminist Lenses 449
42. Thirty-Two. Crafting against Capitalism: Queer Longings for Witch Futures 464
43. Contributors 475
44. Index 489