How many books would you say you have?

Oh, I don't know.

Sylvia Federici's home is full of books.

They're stuffed into cupboards, under beds,

jammed and kitchen cabinets.

Two other editors from Scientific American and I are trying to find this famous Italian scholar

some olive oil, but we can't find any.

Only more books, which Sylvia keeps excitedly pointing out.

And that booklet was very important for me,

because it spoke about the witch hunt.

We're at a dinner that we've dubbed the witch frittata party.

To clarify, yes, we are a group of women,

and Sylvia's philosopher has been George sitting in a circle.

We are in fact eating a frittata,

but we are not at least by any of our admission, which is.

But in 16th century Italy,

as women assembling and talking about reproductive labor and justice,

you could most certainly have been tried.

Today, we'll talk to two witch hunting scholars,

and take you on a journey from the Middle Ages in Italy

to Salem, Massachusetts to the present day

to look at some surprising links between reproductive health,

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