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[homicidal_goat]

My course is officialy awesome. One of my potential dissertation topics: the portrayal of witches in the media and whether they portray a feminist or post feminist attitude. Uuuhm, that would require researching Charmed, Wicked, Harry Potter, Buffy... hell yesssss.

:D

I reckon it would be really interesting! Over the next couple of weeks we get to

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[imweirdlikethat]

That sounds awesome. I wish I had classes where I could do cool stuff like that. Instead I'm stuck reading giant books on the Ottoman Empire. Yay me for picking a history major!

[amethystian]

Oh, awesome!

In that case, I have the perfect book for you to have a look at.
It's called "Investigating Charmed: The Magic Power of TV", edited by Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler.
The sections are divided thus:
Witchcraft, Wicca, Magic and the Community
Feminist Power
Visual Power, Place and Genre

The publisher is I.B. Tauris.

They made a couple of errors in the description of Charmed, but you should be able to spot them. If you're not sure, just check with your friendly neighbourhood Charmedologist (i.e. me)

~N~

[homicidal_goat]

Do you have this book? If you do would there be any possibility of me borrowing it? I'd pay for all the postage and packaging - and even the petrol it takes you to get to the post office! And I'd send it back in time for Christmas?

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

[supercanard]

DANG! I'm super jealous! I cannot even begin to explain how much better that is than writing a thesis about the Constitution.

[colour_mepurple]

Wow, that's such a cool dissertation topic! I am so jealous. Mine will be all crappy and Midwifery related (funny that...). Yours is so much cooler! Definitely include Charmed and the women-power in it, being it was a female cast etc.

Also, on a side note, is Hermione classed as a witch then, yeah? I know, kind of a stupid question but I never really thought about it until now. Wizards can be girls too, can't they? They are on that cheesy Disney channel show...Anywho, thought i'd ask you 'cause you're a HP buff :P =]

[homicidal_goat]

It's called "Hogwarts School of WITCHcraft and Wizardry" :) Yup, Hermione's a witch!

I'm not 100% sure if I'll do it yet, but it's one of my potential topics!

[colour_mepurple]

Ohhhhhhhhhh yeah. Wow, I always was a quick one! *shamed face* ahaha. What are the other topics? Are they as interesting?