During the 1970s and 1980s feminists increasingly came to recognize how the eroticization of women's inferiority, and male sexual violence are both central to the maintenance and perpetuation of male power over women. These issues were largely taken up by radical and especially revolutionary feminists. Marianne Hester, in this book, attempts to explain how women's experience of male sexual violence, through rape and sexual abuse, can lead to an understanding of male power over women. Her analysis also helps us to understand male power in other historical periods. The book focuses on two very separate events and periods: the development of a revolutionary feminist theory of sexuality in response to male sexual violence in the present day, and the witch hunts of early modern England. While stressing the socio-historical specificity and distinct characteristics of men's and women's lives within the 20th-century on the one hand and the 16th and 17th centuries on the other, she argues that the witch hunts may be seen as an historically specific example of male violence. This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, history, and sociology.
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Elizabeth Frauncis, Mother Staunton, Mother Waterhouse, Ursley Kempe, Assize Court, Elizabeth Bennet, Mother Nokes, Elleine Smithe, New England, Women's Liberation Movement, Ales Newman, Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group, Joan Waterhouse, Matthew Hopkins, Joan Cunny, Joan Prentice, Agnes Brown, Elizabeth Clarke, Thomas Prat, Grace Thurlowe, Joan Upney, London Rape Action Group, Susan Cock, Ales Hunt, Andrea Dworkin New!
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Elizabeth Frauncis, Mother Staunton, Mother Waterhouse, Ursley Kempe, Assize Court, Elizabeth Bennet, Mother Nokes, Elleine Smithe, New England, Women's Liberation Movement, Ales Newman, Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group, Joan Waterhouse, Matthew Hopkins, Joan Cunny, Joan Prentice, Agnes Brown, Elizabeth Clarke, Thomas Prat, Grace Thurlowe, Joan Upney, London Rape Action Group, Susan Cock, Ales Hunt, Andrea Dworkin New!
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- Take Back the Night by Laura Lederer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- WOMEN AND REVOLUTION (Black Rose Books; No. E18) by Lydia Sargent in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sexuality of Men by Andy Metcalf in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Book of Readings for Men Against Sexism by Jon Snodgrass in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women against violence against women by D. Rhodes in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts by Anne L. Barstow in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle by Stephen Clucas on page 124, and Back Matter
- The Shock of Medievalism by Kathleen Biddick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England by Deborah Willis on page 13, and Back Matter
- Embracing the Witch and the Goddess: Feminist Ritual-Makers in New Zealand by Kathryn Rountree in Back Matter
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