Malevolent Nurture : : Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England /

Malevolent Nurture : : Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England / / Deborah Willis.

Why were women far more likely than men to be executed for witchcraft in the early modern period? Questioning approaches that focus narrowly on the male role in witch-hunting in England and Scotland, Deborah Willis examines the fact that women were also frequently the accusers.Willis draws on the st...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Willis, Deborah,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1995
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER TWO. (UN)NEIGHBORLY NURTURE
  • CHAPTER THREE. REWRITING THE WITCH
  • CHAPTER FOUR. JAMES AMONG THE WITCH-HUNTERS
  • CHAPTER FIVE. PERFORMING PERSECUTION
  • CHAPTER SIX. STRANGE BREW
  • AFTERWORD NOTORIOUS DEFAMATIONS
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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