Witches as political subjectivity and feminist vindication

Abstract

This article it’s a product from the degree work “Returning to the coven: A look at feminist praxis

through the figure of the witch: Case of the Colombian Network of Women for sexual and reproductive

rights”, by means of a research process and feminist militancy in the women’s and feminist Medellin social movement, through the participation in the Colombian Network of Women for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. The analytical and reflective place is the figure of the witch, as social representation,  political subjectivity and feminist vindication, consequently, the different speeches of power that contributed to configure the subject “witch”, are studied from a comprehensive-interpretative approach, so as to, in specifics space-time contexts, allowed the reproduction of a social representation that has been appropriated and claimed by different sectors of the women’s and feminist social movement from which they express their feminist praxis around the rights of women, and the possibility of constructing  political subjectivities from irreverence and resistance.