Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Society
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Abstract Crimes
accusations
Author_Raisa Maria Toivo
benevolent
Benevolent Magic
Catechism Teaching
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Central Government
court
Court Arena
Court Records
Defamation Suits
Demonological Theories
Early Modern
early modern history
Early Modern Peasant
Early Modern Society
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european
farmers
gender roles analysis
gendered witchcraft court cases
Grandmother's Tale
Grandmother’s Tale
magic
Magic Trials
Male Witches
patriarchal authority studies
peasant
peasant legal agency
Proxy System
records
Reformation Teaching
social hierarchy Finland
Traditional Social Historians
trials
Vice Versa
Western Finland
wider
Witch Trials
Witchcraft Accusations
Witchcraft Case
Witchcraft Trials
Women's Honour
women's status Europe
Women’s Honour
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754664543
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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How could a woman be three times accused of witchcraft and go on running a successful farmstead? Why would men use a frying pan for cattle magic? Why did witches keep talking about the children? What kind of a relation did Finnish witches have with authority and power? These are among the questions Raisa Maria Toivo addresses in this study, as she explores the gender implications of the complex system of household management and public representation in which seventeenth-century Finnish women and men negotiated their positions. From specific case studies, Toivo broadens her narrative to include historiographical discussion on the history of witchcraft, on women's and gender history and on early modern social history, shedding new light on each theme. Toivo contributes to the on-going discussion in the European historiography about whether the early modern period witnessed an improvement, decline, or simply alteration in the conditions of oppression of women within patriarchal households by using a multidimensional set of roles that could be adopted by women. Finally, she demonstrates convincingly that members of the solid peasant class were not only subject of the newly forming states, but also avid users of the court system, which they manipulated and put to work in the interests of their own individual, household, and collective affairs.
Raisa Maria Toivo is a research fellow at the Tampere University Institute for Social Sciences and The Department of History at the University of Tampere, Finland.
