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Acknowledgements
Introduction: why and how gender matters? / Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo
Historiography and the politics of gender
From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti
The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen
"That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday
Female spirituality, religion and gender identities
A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen
Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku
Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises
Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo
Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash
Laws, genders and deviancies
Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen
The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki
Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors
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