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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.
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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Witchcraft, Religious life, Puritans, Social conditions, History, Women, Women, united states, social conditions, Witchcraft, new england, Frau, Hexe, Puritanismus, Sünde, Vrouwen, Puriteinen, Hekserij, Geschichte 1600-1700Places
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Damned women: sinners and witches in Puritan New England
1997, Cornell University Press
in English
0801428343 9780801428340
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