Witchcraft and Women's Liberation Part 1: The Story of the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

In this episode, we tackle the contentious Radical Feminist movement, particularly the actions of the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, aka W.I.T.C.H. We discuss the shifting political ideas of W.I.T.C.H co-founder Robin Morgan and consider how the contradictions within radical feminism--a movement of women who criticized the root of patriarchal society-- gave way to cultural feminism, which held the seeds of a burgeoning feminist spirituality movement.

Sources
Jo Freeman, WITCH

Redstockings, Miss America Protest

WITCH Manifesto,

Robin Morgan, Goodbye to All That
Sisterhood is Powerful, An Anthology of Writings from the Womens Liberation Movement

Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First Sex

Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church and State

Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975

Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

Susan Brownmiller, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

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