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Tables of Contents for Gender and Witchcraft
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
On Studying Witchcraft as Women's History: A Historiography of the European Witch Persecutions
1
14
The Witch ``She'' /The Historian ``He'': Gender and the Historiography of the European Witch-Hunts
15
25
Women as Victims? Witches, Judges, and the Community
40
14
The ``Gendering'' of Witchcraft in French Demonology: Misogyny or Polarity?
54
12
Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy
66
22
The Devil in the Shape of a Man: Witchcraft, Conflict, and Belief in Jacobean England
88
31
Women: Witnesses and Witches
119
34
Witchcraft and Women in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Northern Evidence
153
22
Marriage or a Career? Witchcraft as an Alternative in Seventeenth-Century Venice
175
21
Words, Witches, and Women Trouble: Witchcraft, Disorderly Speech, and Gender Boundaries in Puritan New England
196
22
Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women's Powers: Views from the Mexican Inquisition
218
29
Witches and Witchcraft: A Study about Representations of Female Power on Santa Catarina Island
247
10
Witches, Wives, and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecutions and Women's Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England
257
21
Women's stories of witchcraft in Early Modern England: The House, the Body, the Child
278
25
Witchcraft and Fantasy in Early Modern Germany
303
25
The Spirit of Fornication: Virtue of the Soul and Virtue of the Body in Friuli, 1600--1800
328
31
Syphilis, Misogyny, and Witchcraft in 16th-Century Europe
359
5
Stealing Manhood: Capitalism and Magic in Early Modern Germany
364
19
Fears of Flying: Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany
383
30
Witches as Devils' Concubines: On the Origin of Fear of Witches and Protection against Witches
413
24
Witch or Saint: Absolutes in the French 18th Century Novel
437
12
The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity
449
14
Acknowledgments
463