This publication examines the ways in which women in differing national and social contexts negotiated the cultural terrain of emergent modernity. The volume presents essays on women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation.
This volume examines the emotional crime of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present. Witch-trials in turn are emotionally driven by the grief of alleged victims and by the fears of magistrates and demonologists. With examples ranging from Russia to New England, Germany to Cameroon, chapters cover the representation of emotional witches in demonology and art: the gendering of witchcraft as female envy or male rage: witchcraft as a form of bullying and witchcraft accusation as a form of therapy: love magic and demon-lovers: and the affective memorialization of the “Burning Times” among contemporary Pagan feminists.