Book Club at Amulet is Circle for those who live as women, called together by story, spirit, and spell. We learn from female authors whose voices stir bone memories. You can find us most Mondays at 5PM, gathering in the old ways: in Circle, shoulder to shoulder, taking turns holding the thread. No rsvp required. Simply come & sit in kinship.
For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it.
For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past and contested present— look if we didn’t assume that men have always ruled over women? If we saw inequality as something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted?
6/30 - Timeline, Introduction, & Chapter 1
7/7 - Chapters 2 & 3
7/14 - Chapters 4 & 5
7/21 - Chapters 6 & 7
7/28 - Chapter 8, Afterword, & Celebration
JULY 2025
This “inventive and compelling” (The Times Literary Supplement, London) work of social history travels through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the Salem witch trials—and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country’s last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Lesotho in 1948, where British colonial authorities executed local leaders. Exploring how witchcraft was feared, then decriminalized, and then reimagined as gendered persecution, Witchcraft takes on the intersections between gender and power, indigenous spirituality and colonial rule, political conspiracy and individual resistance.
8/4: Intro & Chapter 1
8/11: Chapters 2 & 3
8/18: Chapters 4 & 5
8/25: Chapter 6 & Celebration
