Are Childfree Women the New Witches?

Hag. Spinster. Crone. Childless cat lady 🐈‍⬛ The words have barely changed - and neither has the patriarchal playbook.

In this episode, we trace the threads between the women burned as witches and the childfree women demonised today: fear of females outside of men’s control, the suspicion of our time and money, the medical misogyny that came after midwives and still shows up in doctor’s offices to this day.

Join us as we get dark, summon the spirits of our long-dead sisters, and gather a coven of powerful childfree women ✨

BBC Radio 4 podcast: Witch

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Guen, Berlin: “People wonder, when left to our own devices, what trouble childfree women get up to.”

Roz, UK: “It was all men making decisions about my body.”

Monica, Berlin: “I was struggling to find a job, until I started to bring up being childfree in interviews. The results were staggering.”

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