Magic and Masculinity: Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era

by Frances Timbers

Book Overview

In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic - the attempted communication with angels and demons - both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position in a patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780765592
• ISBN13: 9781780765594
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"