Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England by Deborah Willis

Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England

Deborah Willis

280 pages paperback 1995

3 editions

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Why were women far more likely than men to be executed for witchcraft in the early modern period? Questioning approaches that focus narrowly on the male role in witch-hunting in England and Scotland, Deborah Willis examines the fact that women wer...

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