Many feminist historians have yet to address the witches' mark.
But as a feminist cultural historian, she has two big problems.
By the second half of the 1970s the Society also included feminist historians and others interested in women's history.
Several feminist historians said they approved of much of the new work.
Jo Stanley is a writer and feminist historian, currently working on women pirates.
A new group of Marxist feminist historians is now trying to reconcile the differences, he added.
She is regarded as one of the early feminist historians in India.
Recent social and feminist historians who have considered the question have bid for explanation on the back of contemporary allegiances.
Yet she certainly did not arrive on the scene as a full-blown feminist historian.