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Albrecht Durer; Witch Riding Backward on a Goat, engraving Ca 1500
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The engraving . . . from around 1500, by Albrecht Durer, ‘Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat,’ is but one example among dozens of that objectification. Depictions of witches from the time almost all show the same thing – women who look old, with aged, imperfect, and infirm bodies; women whom male artists didn’t fine sexually attractive. In this way, what we now refer to as the male gaze was central to the process of making witches abominable. 121

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