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Oct 23, 2019 · Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials, students quickly come to see, is gender. In Salem, 14 of the 19 people found guilty of and executed for witchcraft during that cataclysmic...
- Bridget Marshall
Oct 19, 2018 · But where did this gendered stereotype come from? Part of the answer comes from medieval attitudes towards magic, and the particular behaviours attributed to men and women within the “crime” of...
Oct 30, 2023 · Presented as women persecuted for being women, in the line of work by philosopher Silvia Federici and Mona Chollet, witches have long permeated the public discourse. The feminist activist and...
May 30, 2019 · Whether the witch is depicted as villainous or valorous, she is always a figure of freedom — both its loss and its gain. She is perhaps the only female archetype who is an independent operator.
Fear of witches, diabolical sorcery, and witch-hunting were gendered among the Iroquois, but in ways more complicated than we might expect, given the nonpatriarchal nature of this society.
Witches were often believed to operate in a female sphere – they were accused of killing children and disrupting fertility, or of spoiling beer or bread making, or of drying up cows so that they couldn’t be milked. These acts all attacked female-dominated activities.
Jun 4, 2023 · Women became targeted for their role in witchcraft and the Devil’s dealings and so mistrust of women became firmly placed within the culture of the time. As Carroll mentions, ‘Throughout Western history, the witch has existed as a gendered entity’ (Carroll, Citation 2019, p. 1).
