ISBN:
9781501713347
,
1501713345
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xix, 212 pages)
,
illustrations.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Grasso, Christopher Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. Elizabeth Reis 1999
Parallel Title:
Print version Reis, Elizabeth, 1958- Damned women
DDC:
305.4097409032
Keywords:
Women History
;
17th century
;
New England
;
Women Social conditions
;
New England
;
Women Religious life
;
New England
;
Puritans History
;
New England
;
Witchcraft History
;
17th century
;
New England
;
New England
;
History
;
Women History 17th century
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women Religious life
;
Puritans History
;
Witchcraft History 17th century
;
Women Religious life
;
Puritans History
;
Witchcraft History 17th century
;
Women History 17th century
;
Women Social conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Puritans
;
Witchcraft
;
Women
;
Women ; Religious life
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Vrouwen
;
Puriteinen
;
Hekserij
;
Frau
;
Hexe
;
Puritanismus
;
Sünde
;
Frau
;
Geschichte 1600-1700
;
History
;
New England
;
Neuengland
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in that intersection the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In the process of negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers in practical ways, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity. Women and men feared hell equally but the Puritan culture encourage women to believe that it was their vile natures which would take them there rather than the particular sins they may have committed
Abstract:
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in that intersection the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In the process of negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers in practical ways, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity. Women and men feared hell equally but the Puritan culture encourage women to believe that it was their vile natures which would take them there rather than the particular sins they may have committed
Abstract:
Introduction: Puritan Women and the Discourse of Depravity -- 1. Women's Sinful Natures and Men's Natural Sins -- 2. Popular and Ministerial Visions of Satan -- 3. The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul -- 4. Gender and the Meanings of Confession -- 5. Satan Dispossessed -- Epilogue: Gender, Faith, and "Young Goodman Brown
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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