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Burning Women : Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India

Part of the Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 series
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Pompa Banerjee explores early modern accounts and images of burning women bringing together travellers' accounts on sati in India with the burning of witches in EM Europe, a link that contemporary observers studiously repressed.

Ultimately, she's interested in how these practices speak to issues of the punishment of women and ideological debates about the proper behaviour of wives and widows.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
1403960186 / 9781403960184
Hardback
06/02/2003
United States
English
256 p.
22 cm
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