[NetBehaviour] Lewd Women and Wicked Witches: Study of the Dynamics of Male Domination

[marc garrett]

Lewd Women and Wicked Witches: Study of the Dynamics of Male Domination.
By Marianne Hester.

Amongst the many books I have been diving into at the moment. This has 
been one of my faves. I had to borrow it from the local library because 
the paperback is now out of print. There is a hard copy on sale for over 
£100. Although, recently I did manage to get a used copy for £3.25 ;-)

"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."

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lewd-Women-Wicked-Witches-Domination/dp/0415052092/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383579996&sr=1-5

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