Lewd women and wicked witches : a study of the dynamics of male domination
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Lewd women and wicked witches : a study of the dynamics of male domination
Routledge, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk. ISBN 9780415052092
Description
During the 1970s and 1980s feminists increasingly came to recognize how the eroticization of women's inferiority, and male sexual violence are both central to the maintenance and perpetuation of male power over women. These issues were largely taken up by radical and especially revolutionary feminists. Marianne Hester, in this book, attempts to explain how women's experience of male sexual violence, through rape and sexual abuse, can lead to an understanding of male power over women. Her analysis also helps us to understand male power in other historical periods. The book focuses on two very separate events and periods: the development of a revolutionary feminist theory of sexuality in response to male sexual violence in the present day, and the witch hunts of early modern England. While stressing the socio-historical specificity and distinct characteristics of men's and women's lives within the 20th-century on the one hand and the 16th and 17th centuries on the other, she argues that the witch hunts may be seen as an historically specific example of male violence. This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, history, and sociology.
Table of Contents
- From men partially responsible to men primarily responsible for women's oppression
- men primarily responsible for women's oppression
- towards a revolutionary feminist approach - male sexual violence against women
- a revolutionary feminist approach male sexuality as social control of women
- the early modern witch hunts I
- the early modern witch hunts II
- the accused and the accusations against them
- the conclusion.
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ISBN 9780415070713
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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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, 2. From men partially responsible to men primarily responsible for women's oppression, 3. Men primarily responsible for women's oppression, 4. Towards a revolutionary feminist approach: male sexual violence against women, 5. A revolutionary feminist approach: male sexuality as social control of women, 6. The early modern withch hunts I, 7. The early modern witch hunts II, 8. The accused and the accusations against them, 9. The conclusion, Footnotes, Bibliography
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