num_pages: 405
description: A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary historical and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race class sexuality religion geography and era.Are you a good witch or a bad witch?Glinda the Good Witch. Elphaba the Wicked Witch. Willow. Sabrina. Gemma Doyle. The Mayfair Witches. Ursula the Sea Witch. Morgan le Fey. The three weird sisters from Macbeth.History tells us women accused of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated independent unmarried unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations.Bold. Powerful. Rebellious.A brujas traditional love spell has unexpected results. A witchs healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores her attraction to a fellow witch. In a terrifying future women are captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch among them must fight to free them all. In a desolate past three orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. Somewhere in the present a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a hurricane.From good witches to bad witches to witches who are a bit of both this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse feminist authors. The collective strength of women working togethermagically or mundanely--has long frightened society to the point that womens rights are challenged legislated against and denied all over the world. Toil &amp; Trouble delves deep into the truly diverse mythology of witchcraft from many cultures and feminist points of view to create modern and unique tales of witchery that have yet to be explored.
language: English
title: Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
publisher: Harlequin Teen