Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together

Authors: George-Allen, Sam
Publisher: Melville House
BISAC/Subject: SOC028000, SOC010000
ISBN: 9781612198354, Related ISBNs: 1612198341, 161219835X, 9781612198347, 9781612198354
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 288,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the "cool girl" or the "catty workplace"

Covens. Girl Bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of necessity, of support.

In Witches, Sam George-Allen explores how wherever women gather, magic happens. Female farmers change the way we grow our food. Online beauty communities democratize skin-care rituals. And more than any other demographic, it's teen girls that shape our culture.

Patriarchal societies have long been content to champion boys' clubs, while viewing groups that exclude men as sites of rivalry and suspicion. This deeply personal investigation takes us from our workplaces to our social circles, surveying our heroes, our outcasts, and ourselves, in order to dismantle the persistent and pernicious cultural myth of female isolation and competition . . . once and for all.
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