{"id":6577,"date":"2021-11-07T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=191386"},"modified":"2021-11-07T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T12:33:18","slug":"salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem witch trials podcast, episode 8: Willful, weak-minded women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 07 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Fourteen of the 19 people hanged for witchcraft at Salem were women. So could their gender \u2013 or perhaps their transgression of gender norms \u2013 be part of the reason they were targeted? And what about the five men hanged? In this episode we\u2019ll try to unpick the complicated question of how gender impacted on the Salem witch trials.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-191386-2&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;http:\/\/bristolcdn.s3.amazonaws.com\/bbchistory\/audio\/HistoryExtra_2021_Salem%20Episode%208%20Temp%203.mp3?_=2&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;http:\/\/bristolcdn.s3.amazonaws.com\/bbchistory\/audio\/HistoryExtra_2021_Salem%20Episode%208%20Temp%203.mp3&quot;\">http:\/\/bristolcdn.s3.amazonaws.com\/bbchistory\/audio\/HistoryExtra_2021_Salem%20Episode%208%20Temp%203.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/episode8-willful-weak-mindedwomen-\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <p>Want to hear more? Browse the rest of the episodes in our series <strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/salem-witch-trials-history-podcast-series\/&quot;\">Investigating the Salem witch trials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Sunday, 07 November 2021 at 12:00 am Fourteen of the 19 people hanged for witchcraft at Salem were women. So could their gender \u2013 or perhaps their transgression of gender norms \u2013 be part of the reason they were targeted? And what about the five men hanged? In this episode we\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6578,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/11\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/11\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/11\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/11\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/11\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/11\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/11\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-8-willful-weak-minded-women.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Sunday, 07 November 2021 at 12:00 am Fourteen of the 19 people hanged for witchcraft at Salem were women. 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