{"id":5140,"date":"2013-01-28T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T01:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2013-01-28T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T01:41:25","slug":"nyt-on-not-looking-like-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5140","title":{"rendered":"NYT: On not Looking like a ‘Witch’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wear your gray hair long, ladies, <\/em>says the New York Times<\/em>, but be careful not to look like “a witch.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The article is tied to a “march” that was clearly a staged publicity event. Still, it resonated with NYT<\/em> readers, and one commenter even started a blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That choice [to wear one’s gray hair long]\u00a0 however, flies in the face of a long-held assumption that a lavish head of snowy hair is somehow unseemly, a rude reminder that a woman, whatever her age, remains a sexual being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much of the 16th-17th century art of witches touches the “wrongness” of sexuality in post-menopausal women. Here is an article on witch hunts and gender,<\/a> and i would also recommend art historian Linda Hults’ The Witch as Muse<\/em><\/a> if you want to think more about artistic representation of witches, which were not made in any sort of journalistic way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wear your gray hair long, ladies, says the New York Times, but be careful not to look like “a witch.” The article is tied to a “march” that was clearly a staged publicity event. Still, it resonated with NYT readers, and one commenter even started a blog. 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