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Intro -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 INVISIBLE MEN: THE HISTORIAN AND THE MALE WITCH -- 2 SECONDARY TARGETS? MALE WITCHES ON TRIAL -- 3 TORTURED CONFESSIONS: AGENCY AND SELFHOOD AT STAKE -- 4 LITERALLY UNTHINKABLE? DEMONOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF MALE WITCHES -- 5 CONCEPTUAL WEBS: THE GENDERING OF WITCHCRAFT -- CONCLUSION AND AFTERWORD -- APPENDIX JOHANNES JUNIUS: BAMBERG'S FAMOUS MALE WITCH -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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This study of male witches addresses incidents of witch-hunting in Britain and Europe, using feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. It advances a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: Apps, Lara Gender at Stake : Male Witches in Early Modern Europe
Manchester : Manchester University Press,c2003 9780719057083
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Witchcraft -- Europe -- History.;Warlocks -- Europe -- History
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Electronic books
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Gow, Andrew Colin
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