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1 Online-Ressource (xix, 212 pages)
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illustrations
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0801486114
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0801428343
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1501713345
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9780801486111
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9780801428340
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9781501713347
Inhalt:
Following the Salem witchcraft trials, Reis argues, Puritans' understanding of sin and the devil changed. Women and men took more responsibility for their sins and became increasingly confident of their redemption, yet women more than men continued to imagine themselves as essentially corrupt, even after the Great Awakening
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In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in that intersection the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In the process of negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers in practical ways, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity. Women and men feared hell equally but the Puritan culture encourage women to believe that it was their vile natures which would take them there rather than the particular sins they may have committed
Inhalt:
Introduction: Puritan Women and the Discourse of Depravity -- 1. Women's Sinful Natures and Men's Natural Sins -- 2. Popular and Ministerial Visions of Satan -- 3. The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul -- 4. Gender and the Meanings of Confession -- 5. Satan Dispossessed -- Epilogue: Gender, Faith, and "Young Goodman Brown
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reis, Elizabeth, 1958- Damned women Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
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Ethnologie
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