[PDF] Witchcraft Accusations And Persecutions As A Mechanism For The Marginalisation Of Women eBook

Author : Samantha Spence
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1527502686

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This books draws on feminist commentary from the disciplines of anthropology, history, law, politics and sociology in order to deal with the phenomenon of modern-day witchcraft. It focuses on the re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs in contemporary society, suggesting that witchcraft accusations and persecution are being used as a marginalisation mechanism of women. The re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs in contemporary society and the prevalence of the violence associated with such beliefs has received little attention within academic literature, yet witchcraft-related violence against women is, progressively, becoming one of the most pervasive forms of violence facing women today. This book addresses this gap in the literature, discussing the return of witchcraft beliefs to contemporary society, whilst assessing the effectiveness of international human rights law in protecting women from witchcraft accusations and persecution.

Author : Evelyn Heinemann
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :

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In this topical study the author argues that the naming and persecution of women as witches in the 16th and 17th century resulted from the powerful unresolved psychic conflicts of their persecutors. The historical and social contexts in which trials took place are examined for evidence of how attitudes and beliefs of the time came to play their part in the extraordinary development of this persecutory phenomenon. Ms. Heinemann asserts that the witch phenomenon is an example of the potential for destructiveness by the human imagination and shows the necessity of understanding unconscious processes in social phenomena today. The dark forces and process identifiable in the past continue to find expression in the demonization and persecution of men and women today. This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, sociologists, social historians and women everywhere.

Author : Govind Kelkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108883435

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Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. This book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. It brings in field data from India and South-East Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.

Author : Randy Duncan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1350253928

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After the successful and innovative first two editions, now in a new, restructured 3rd edition, this remains the most authoritative introduction for studying comic books and graphic novels, covering their place in contemporary culture, the manifestations and techniques of the art form, the evolution of the medium and how to analyze and write about them. The new edition includes: - A completely reworked introduction explores the comics community in the US and globally, its history, and the role of different communities in advancing the medium and its study - Chapters reframed to get students thinking about themselves as consumers and makers of comics - Reorganized chapters on form help to unpack encapsulation, composition and layout - Completely new chapters on comics and how they can be used to report, document, and persuade, as well as a new Preface by Karen Green Illustrated throughout, with discussion questions and activities for every chapter and an extensive glossary of key terms, The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels also includes further updated resources available online including additional essays, weblinks and sample syllabi.

Author : Marion Luger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 3640427734

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Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject History of Europe - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 1,0, University of Sussex, language: English, abstract: Beginning in the 14th century, witchcraft-persecution in Europe reached its peak in the 16th and 17th centuries and gradually ended in the 18th century. Apart from this broad local and temporal framework, in the Historic sciences several elements of uncertainty still exist. For instance, the number of accused people varies from over 100,000 to a million, and their geographical and chronological distribution was extremely uneven. Moreover, the phenomenon of witchcraft can hardly ever be linked with a specific group of society, as “it involved both the educated classes and the common people”. In this essay, however, we will firstly consider the appreciation of witchcraft by the elite as well as by the populace (section II). Thereupon, section III describes the preconditions for and the functions of witchcraft-beliefs. Then, section IV shows the interaction of traditional popular sentiments and contemporary authoritarian views and its results. Finally, section V. examines the causes for the transformation from a “private” handling of witchcraft to formal accusations, the affected people and the expansion of their number.

Author : Mita Barman
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Hindu women
ISBN :

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Study chiefly on the practice of witch-hunting among the Santal tribal community of Malda District of West Bengal, and an exploration of the causes of the presence of Bengali widows in Vrindavan, India.

Author : George L Burr
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781021197269

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This book explores the infamous witch trials that took place in Europe and America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Burr delves into the complex religious, cultural, and political factors that contributed to the persecution and execution of thousands of women accused of witchcraft. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780785821243

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Examines the persecution and religious hysteria about alleged witches that occurred in Europe and colonial America between 1450 and 1750.

Author : Robert Thurston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1317865014

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Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a ‘persecuting society’ in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved, with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torture.