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The Darkened Room
Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
Taschenbuch von Alex Owen
Sprache: Englisch

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A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era: The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums. It's an exploration of the era's gender relations. The hugely popular spiritualist movement, which maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead, offered female mediums a new independence, authority, and potential to undermine conventional class and gender relations in the home and in society. Using previously unexamined sources and an innovative approach, Alex Owen invokes the Victorian world of darkened rooms, theatrical apparitions, and moving episodes of happiness lost and regained. She charts the struggles between spiritualists and the medical and legal establishments over the issue of female mediumship, and provides new insights into the gendered dynamics of Victorian society.
A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era: The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums. It's an exploration of the era's gender relations. The hugely popular spiritualist movement, which maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead, offered female mediums a new independence, authority, and potential to undermine conventional class and gender relations in the home and in society. Using previously unexamined sources and an innovative approach, Alex Owen invokes the Victorian world of darkened rooms, theatrical apparitions, and moving episodes of happiness lost and regained. She charts the struggles between spiritualists and the medical and legal establishments over the issue of female mediumship, and provides new insights into the gendered dynamics of Victorian society.
Über den Autor
Alex Owen is a professor of history and gender studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Place of Enchantment, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226642055
ISBN-10: 0226642054
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Owen, Alex
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 229 x 160 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Alex Owen
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2004
Gewicht: 0,463 kg
Artikel-ID: 102394399
Über den Autor
Alex Owen is a professor of history and gender studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Place of Enchantment, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226642055
ISBN-10: 0226642054
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Owen, Alex
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 229 x 160 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Alex Owen
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2004
Gewicht: 0,463 kg
Artikel-ID: 102394399
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