ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. This book describes the capacity of women to articulate their lived experience of the world outside of the logic of patriarchy and phallocentrism. It addresses the ways in which feminine non-phallocentric apperceptions of the world have been sustained over millennia through the use of ritual and oral traditions. The book examines a selection of beliefs and practices that may hold such knowledge including brujas, Voodoo, fairies, sorcerers, indigenous medicine, and witches as modes of experience and lines of flight that elude and challenge dominant ways of knowing. The access to the realm of fairies with its attendant shifts in temporality, matrilineality and subjective alterity, is inherently dangerous to the interests of dominant rule as a mode of truth production and social apperception.
