1st Edition
Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture Not Today Satan
Edited By Miranda Corcoran
Copyright 2025
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism. At the same time, the book also constitutes a vital addition to the field of Gothic and Horror Studies. Although recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in figures such as the witch, the zombie and the vampire, Satan and his acolytes have been largely ignored (aside from where they overlap with... Read more
List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, SATANIC HISTORIES, Satanic Feminism...Someday,Save our children from Satanists: Women, Motherhood, and Satanic Moral Panic,God Bless the Satanists: Reproductive Rights and the Satanic Temple, THE SATANIC CENTURY,You will have tiger teeth, for you will be a Breaker in Pieces: Visions of Satanic Feminine Power in the Work of Dion Fortune and Aleister Crowley,Conversations with Satan: Shirley Jackson's Feminist and Feminised Satanisms, Satanic Feminism and Motherhood in Rosemary's Baby, George A. Romero's Season of the Witch and the Commodification of Satanism and the Suburban Witch,Mommy is Bleeding Too Much: Hauntological Time in BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas: Stigma,They're no longer little girls!: Liberation and negotiations of sexuality in Alucarda (1977), The Satanic Yuppie and the Glamorous witch: Negotiating Postfeminist Empowerment in The Witches of Eastwick, LIVING DELICIOUSLY: THE DEVIL IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, The Symbolic Devil v the Literal Devil: Gender and Evil in The Scarlet Letter and in The VVitch,You're a dangerous Girl: The Fashioning of Satanic Liberation in The VVitch (2015), The Neon Demon (2016), and Midsommar (2019),Better to Reign in Hell, Than Serve in Heaven: Satanic Transformation and Female Agency in Starry Eyes, The VVitch and Ready or Not,Spellbound: Postfeminism and the Feminisation of Fascism in Anna Biller's The Love Witch (2016),Reborn as a Witch: Gender and Exploited Labour in Contemporary Witchcraft Films,Ghouls, Girls, and Ghosts: The Satanic Feminism of the Swedish Metal Band Ghost,The Refeeding Monstrous: Witches, Cannibalism, and the Power of Traditions in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020),Hell is a Teenage Girl: Young Women and Satanic Power in Point Pleasant (2005), Jennifer's Body (2009), and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018, 2020), Index.
Biography
Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in the Department of English, University College Cork. She is the author of Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022), The Craft (Auteur/Liverpool University Press, 2023), and Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook (2024).
