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SALEM EPISODE 8: Willful, weak-minded women?
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SALEM EPISODE 8: Willful, weak-minded women?

Fourteen of the 19 people hanged for witchcraft at Salem were women. So could their gender – or perhaps their transgression of gender norms – be part of the reason they were targeted?

HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate

November 7, 202132m 47sbonus

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Show Notes

Fourteen of the 19 people hanged for witchcraft at Salem were women. So could their gender – or perhaps their transgression of gender norms – be part of the reason they were targeted? And what about the five men hanged? In this episode we’ll try to unpick the complicated question of how gender impacted on the Salem witch trials.

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