ABSTRACT
The central feature of male supremacy as it exists today is the eroticised inequality between men and women. Taking the early modern witch-hunts as the focus, I will examine how this understanding of inequality between men and women may also be relevant to analysis of historical phenomena.1 I have chosen to focus on the period of the early modern witch-hunts (during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), not only because this has been identified as an important outcome of changes taking place in the early modern and immediately pre-capitalist period, but also for the important reason that the witch-hunts appear to have been directed primarily, and almost exclusively, at women.
