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Witchcraft Studies from the Perspective of Women’s and Gender History: A Report on Recent Research
- Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 4, Number 1, Summer 2009
- pp. 90-99
- 10.1353/mrw.0.0127
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This essay examines how the rise of women's studies and women's history in academia since the 1970s has influenced research on witchcraft and witch hunting. It also examines how more recent developments in gender history, including serious attention to the historical construction of masculinity, has affected scholarship on witchcraft.