Spellbound

Elizabeth Reis teaches history and women's studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997).

• Chapter 1 The Economic Basis of WitchcraftChapter 2 Female Speech and Other Demons: Witchcraft and Wordcraft in Early New EnglandChapter 3 Gender and the Meanings of Confession in Early New EnglandChapter 4 Dark EveChapter 5 "The Devil Will Roar in Me Anon": The Possession of Martha Roberson, Boston, 1741Chapter 6 Seneca Possessed: Colonialism, Witchcraft, and Gender in the Time of Handsome LakeChapter 7 Sojourner Truth's Religion in Her Moment of Pentecostalism and WitchcraftChapter 8 "Hoodoo? God Do": African American Women and Contested Spirituality in the Spiritual Churches of New OrleansChapter 9 Red Lilac of the Cayugas: Traditional Indian Laws and Culture Conflict in a Witchcraft Trial in Buffalo, New York, 1930Chapter 10 Witchcraft as Goddess ReligionChapter 11 Affinities and Appropriations in Feminist SpiritualityChapter 12 In Whose Image? Misogynist Trends in the Construction of Goddess and Woman

This collection of essays is a thorough and enlightening presentation of what has been and what continues to be the state of the powerful woman in American society.