SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Reproductive Rights, Middle Ages
2 Mar 2013
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Wants to made order out of chaos the garden. Women had leeches over her back to suck out the evil what was considered evil was her wanting to read about other cultures. The power of nature when all hell was breaking loose in the garden. Psychiatrist controls the daughter she was accused of witchcraft. Age of reason just hundreds of years ago: witchcraft transition to capitalism in europe. Broad range of pre-capitalist kinds of practices were criminalized because they were antagonistic to the new organization of worth. Witch hunts became profit making interprises: women healers, crafty, or midwives were accused of witchcraft it was functional to redefining people"s relationships to work and the family. Adultery was equated with witchcraft, just for the women. A virgin could not be a witch and preggo women rarely charged with witchcraft swearing, talking back, no crying during torture = witches.
