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Agnes Brown
Anti-sexist Men
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early modern England
Early Modern Witch Hunts
Elizabeth Frauncis
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Family Wage
female
feminist analysis of witch trials
feminist historiography
Free Women
Gay Man
gendered violence
Joan Cunny
MacKinnon 1987a
male
Male Female Conflict
Male Female Power Relations
Male Female Relations
Male Female Sexual Relations
Male Sexual Violence
Male Supremacist Society
Married Women
Millett's Work
Millett’s Work
pamphlet
patriarchal oppression
Poole's Wife
Poole’s Wife
power
relations
Revolutionary Feminist
sexual politics history
trial
Trial Pamphlets
Violate
Witch Hunt Period
witch-hunt studies
witchcraft
Witchcraft Accusation
Women's Oppression
Women’s Oppression
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415070713
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jan 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the sixteenth century and seventeenth centuries it was women who were almost exclusively persecuted as witches. However, the witch craze has been subjected to surprisingly little feminist analysis. In Lewd Women and Wicked Witches, Marianne Hester reviews and develops revolutionary feminist thinking. Accordingly, she shows how witches can be seen as victims of the oppression of a male dominated society.
Concentrating on English source material, the author shows how witch-hunts may be seen as an historically specific example of male dominance. Relying on an eroticised construct of women's inferiority, they were part of the ongoing attempt by men to maintain their power over women.
