she was captured by the Duke of Burgundy's men, jailed for more than a year and put on trial for charges including heresy, witchcraft and violating divine law for dressing like a man.

Joan of Arc (1412–1431) was formally canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 16 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV in his bull Divina disponente, which concluded the canonization process that the Sacred Congregation of Rites instigated after a petition of 1869 of the French Catholic hierarchy.

I use the word “witch” to signify both my Pagan spiritual beliefs — that nature is holy, thus the planet we live on and the bodies we live in are all sacred — and my role as a complex woman who speaks her mind, behavior that is still often met by society with judgment or disdain.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/international-womens-day-matriarchy-matriarchal-society-women-feminism-culture-matrilineal-elephant-bonobo-a8243046.html

http://www.womeninpower.eu

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/toxic-masculinity.amp.html

https://artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/WwIyY2IMPqeoKw

https://lithub.com/on-a-new-generation-of-villainous-women-from-witches-to-wicked-stepmothers/

https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/08/pop-culture-modern-women/

horror feminea; fear of women (in power)

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Women in positions of power are women who hold an occupation that gives them great authority, influence, and/or responsibility. Historically, power has been distributed among the sexes disparately. Power and powerful positions have most often been associated with men as opposed to women.

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli was unusual for the Early Renaissance, mainly because of the way he shunned realism, which was being used by da Vinci and Michelangelo at the time. Venus is pictured here as she emerges from the sea in strong contrapposto, sheilding herself with her hand and her long hair. Botticelli made her effortlessly beautiful, and admirers flock to her side, trying to get a look at her. Compared to previous paintings in the Gothic and Medieval Art, her anatomy is more pronounced, and Botticelli obviously had a considerable amount of knowledge about the body.

How can women be truly liberated when one set is eyeing to be patriarchy’s ideal woman and denouncing the other as “sluts” in the process?

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” Ways of Seeing, John Berger

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
― James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

various suggestions have been made that the witch trials emerged as a response to socio-political turmoil in the Early Modern world. One form of this is that the prosecution of witches was a reaction to a disaster that had befallen the community, such as crop failure, war, or disease.[70] For instance, Midelfort suggested that in southwestern Germany, war and famine destabilised local communities, resulting in the witch prosecutions of the 1620s