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)
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