Snow White: Evil Witches
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2020
- The Brothers Grimm’s tale of Snow White has been retold dozens of times in print and the cinema over the past two centuries. A central character is the Evil Queen, Snow White’s malevolent stepmother, who tries to kill her with the help of the occult. Aging women have often been portrayed as Evil Women.
What do portrayals of the Evil Queen tell us about witchcraft, fears of the power of aging women, and the valorisation of youth, beauty, and domesticity?
A lecture by Joanna Bourke
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Growing more powerful as it advances, this is a wonderful lecture. Gladly audited, liked, and shared. Thanks, Gresham!
This is a truly brilliant analysis of Snow White. Thank you.
I really enjoyed this lecture. Thank you! As a family historian it made me want to go and examine, a little more closely, the many step women in my family tree.
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Very informative to my research! Thank you so much for this subject!
Loved this - could someone point me to the first lecture please? I’ve searched but cannot find it. 🧙♀️
Great!!
A most edifying lecture.
Freud was a rubber stamp for male domination. Edwardian well to do would send "fractious" wives to him for a "Hysteria" diagnosis, absolving spousal abuse, objectification, and disenfranchisement, as "entirely appropriate". He'd give the unhappy woman a cocaine injection, doodle on his notepad, while she random-associated (like a speed freak), and then give her a "morphia" (Barbiturate) injection before sending her home to be hubby's plaything.
Dreadful business. Half of the world treated as inferiors, denied rights and denied choice; The whole codified into a persistent system.
Yes. Need. A. Education.
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I wonder whether the whiteness of Snow White reflects any racial prejudices. Whiteness was the preferred teint of the upper class and the nobility, because it separated them from women who often had to do work under the blazing sun and therefore got tanned. (It seems to be the same in Japanese culture where even today you can see women protecting themselves from sunlight with an umbrella). And it is obvious that whiteness has been a sign of pureness in western culture for a long time. Moreover, the beauty of youth (also an obvious promis of fertility) has always been recognized in any culture and people have always deplored the loss of physical beauty of youth which usually also meant physical health. This lecturer therefore transports a lot of modern political correctness into the story which is quite annoying.