The Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe

The Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe offers readers a unique opportunity to understand fifteenth- and sixteenth-century gender relationships. In Part l, essayists explore the figure of the witch and the witchcraze as an outgrowth of misogyny and patriarchal hierarchy in the social, political, and cultural arenas of European history. Part II includes essays on individual women whose lives and thoughts influenced their societies in ways seldom examined by critics.