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26 Kramer, H and Sprenger, J, The Malleus Maleficarum (1928) Summers, Rev M (trans), 1971, New York: Dover. 33 Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence should preferably be eradicated’. 27 The second, and more radical interpretation, is feminist. 28 Marianne Hester29 agrees, stating that witch murder represented ‘an instance of male sexual violence against women, relying on a particular sexual construct of female behaviour. The hunts were a part of the apparently on-going attempt by men to control women socially, and to reimpose the male-dominated status quo in a period of many changes including economic restructuring and pressure on economic resources.
31 Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence pass. The traditional explanation for the practice was that women were kept ‘pure’, ‘delicate’ and ‘precious’, and therefore more ‘desirable’ with small feet which caused the body to sway in a ‘feminine’ manner as it moved. That the practice resulted in severe disfigurement and pain for the victims was of little consequence to the men who demanded ‘delicate’ womenfolk. 14 In Gyn/Ecology,15 feminist theologian Mary Daly16 evaluates the practice, and concludes that in reality footbinding involved masculine control over women and girls, a control which was hidden by the fact that women themselves engaged in the practice in relation to their own children, for to refuse to do so would imperil their children’s chance of a ‘good marriage’.
4 As Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo has explained, Victorian social theorists such as Herbert Spencer,5 Emile Durkheim,6 and Georg Simmel7 recognised that women’s social position and role was determined by her biological function, and while variously recognising that this function resulted in inequalities in public life, nevertheless accepted the ‘naturalness’ of women’s inferiority as a result of her biological function: thus woman is reduced to her ‘essence’, her biological function. 9 Thus, at this point Rosaldo was postulating a universalist explanation of women’s inferiority.