The Worker's Cauldron
A podcast about the cultural politics of the paranormal. Where Karl Marx shakes his fist at the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot speaks to us about the legacies of colonialism. We discuss the contemporary obsession with all things supernatural through a socialist, feminist lens and ask what our strange experiences and beliefs tell us about the society we live in.
The Worker's Cauldron
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