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Be forewarned, Conjure Wife was written in 1943 and presents some unflattering gender roles and stereotypes. The protagonist Norman thinks highlight of his wife Transy specifically because she was “so sane, so healthily contemptuous of palmistry, astrology, numerology and all other superstitious fads.” Multiple times in the story Norman equates science and rationality with menContinue reading “Putting the Academia in Dark Academia – Conjure Wife”