Gender Approach

Historians:

- Rita Voltmer

- Rolf Schulte

- Christina Larner 

- Alison Rowlands

- Brian Levack

- Robert Thurston

Advantages:

- puts both men and women into the explanation

- roles of both genders important and valuable

- the relationships between the sexes

- not a war against women

- can explain the decline (positive attitudes towards women, the breakdown of the stereotypical witch, etc.)

- can help to answer questions such as:

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