Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Name: Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
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ISBN-10: 0801486114
ISBN-13: 9780801486111
Category: Femmes - Nouvelle-Angleterre - Conditions sociales
Pages: 212
Language: English
Published: 1999
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Author: Elizabeth Reis

Description

When exploring the course of events at Salem, historians have often ignored assumptions about gender embedded within Puritan cosmology. The author of this work examines how gender systems cut across religious belief, showing the proscription of women's 'sinful natures' and men's 'natural sins'.