In fifteenth-century Germany, women were singled out as witches for the first time in history; this book explores why. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections a

Upheld current sex and race occupational segregation, assuring the public that women were in the military to do "women's work" within it, and resisting African-

Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity,