Preface; 1. Introduction Ulinka Rublack; Part I. Masculinities: 2. What
made a man a man? Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century findings Heide Wunder;
3. Men in witchcraft trials: towards a social anthropology of 'male'
understandings of magic and witchcraft Eva Labouvie; Part II.
Transgressions: 4. Monstrous deception: midwifery, fraud and gender in
early modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber Alison Rowlands; 5. 'Evil imaginings
and fantasies': child witches and the end of the witch craze Lyndal Roper;
6. Gender tales: the multiple identities of Maiden Heinrich, Hamburg 1700
Mary Lindemann; 7. Disembodied theory? Discourses of sex in early modern
Germany Merry Wiesner; Part III. Politics: 8. Peasant protest and the
language of womens' petitions: Christina Vend's supplications of 1629
Renate Blickle; 9. State formation, gender and the experience of governance
in early modern Württemberg Ulinka Rublack; Part IV. Religion: 10.
Cloistering womens' past: conflicting accounts of enclosure in a
seventeenth-century Munich nunnery Ulrike Strasser; 11. Memory, religion
and family in the writing of Pietist women Ulrike Gleixner; 12. One body,
two confessions: mixed marriages in Germany Dagmar Freist.
