As Italian scholar Silvia Federici points out in her recent book Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women :
In many parts of the world, women have historically been seen as the weavers of memory — those who keep alive the voices of the past and the histories of the communities, who transmit them to the future generations and, in so doing, create a... See more
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Silvia Fedrici — Witches, Witch Hunting, and Women