Sam George-Allen
Sam George-Allen is an Australian writer and musician. Her essays and cultural criticism have been published in The Guardian, The Lifted Brow, Griffith Review, LitHub, and Overland. She lives in a village in Tasmania with her partner, a dog, a cat, and five chickens.
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Witches
- By: Sam George-Allen
- Narrator: Merritt Hicks
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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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 magic happens wherever women gather. 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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