An exploration of why women were singled out as witches in
15th-century in Germany. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections
between three central developments in early modern Germany: a shift
in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of
femininity; and the witch hunts that swept across Europe from 1435
to 1750. In mediaeval discourse on witchcraft, Brauner argues, men
and women were assumed to become witches in roughly equal numbers.
But starting with the notorious ""Malleus Maleficarum"" (1487),
witchcraft was reinterpreted as a gender-specific crime: its
authors argued contentiously that most witches were women and
linked the crime of witchcraft to women's voracious sexual
appetites. The work raises questions about the genesis of the
modern social problems of race, gender and class oppression, and
locates their roots in the early modern period.
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