Gender at stake critiques historians' assumptions about
witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and
perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of
gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of
the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation
of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows
that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own
right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The
authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as
gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women
and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current
orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship
on gender to a selection of statistical arguments,
social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and
primary sources, including trial records and demonological
literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies
concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of
particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and
graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender
studies and methodology.
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