Jennie Woodard

Witchcraft

Gendered Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Witchcraft: Gendered Perspectives traces the history of and evolution of the term "witch" across six centuries. It is an invaluable resource for graduate and undergraduate students across gender studies, queer history, religious studies, media studies, and European and North American history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9781032717241
• ISBN-10: 1032717246
• Artikelnr.: 73329311

Autorenporträt

Jennie Woodard is Assistant Professor of History and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maine, Augusta, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "The Wickedness of Woman": The Malleus Maleficarum, or "The
Hammer of Witches" 2. "Something Wicked This Way Comes": The Witchhunts of
Scotland, England and Salem 3. "Garmented in Light": Reimaginings of the
Witch Through Nineteenth-Century Poetry 4. "An Ye Harm None": The Rise of
Wicca in the Twentieth Century 5. "Normal is Not Necessarily a Virtue": TV
and Movie Witches of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 6. "The Power
to Write Your Own Story": The Witch as Reclamation in the Twenty-First
Century Conclusion