In 2022, historian Christelle Taraud visited the Steilneset memorial in Norway, which pays tribute to the "witches" executed in the Finnmark region in the 17th century. Her book, Les Filles-au-diable,retrouver les 'sorcières' de Steilneset (1620-2022), a combination of intimate account, historical archives, poetic wanderings and political analysis, recently published by La Découverte, brings to light a different history of the 'witch' hunts - the matrix of feminicide in Europe - to shed new light on past and present violence.
Christelle Taraud is a historian and associate member of the Centre d'histoire du XIXe siècle at the universities of Paris I and Paris IV. A specialist in issues of gender and sexuality, her publications include Amour interdit. Prostitution, marginality and colonialism. Maghreb (1830-1962) (Payot, 2012) and edited Féminicides. Une histoire mondiale (La Découverte, 2022).
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Christelle Taraud is a historian and associate member of the Centre d'histoire du XIXe siècle at the universities of Paris I and Paris IV. A specialist in issues of gender and sexuality, her publications include Amour interdit. Prostitution, marginality and colonialism. Maghreb (1830-1962) (Payot, 2012) and edited Féminicides. Une histoire mondiale (La Découverte, 2022).
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