by Catherine Clément · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226440808
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«Le musée des sorcières» is the historical essay by Catherine Clément, published by Albin Michel in paperback (293 pages, in French).
An essay that starts from the persecution of witches in Europe to analyze the links between misogyny, religion and feminism: from the woman accused of witchcraft to the Virgin Mary, and from rural healers to Femen and #MeToo. Clément also draws on the personal by evoking her mother, a fan of occultism and fortune-telling.
Originally published in 2020, the book carries the subtitle «essai» on the cover.
For those seeking a reflection on the witch hunt in Europe and its legacy in today's feminism.
Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born to a Jewish mother in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva. She has also made contributions to musicology; her Opera, or the Undoing of Women (1979) is notable for its emphasis on the representation of women in opera.
