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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226642054

ISBN-139780226642055

eBay Product ID (ePID)6039848

Product Key Features

Number of Pages344 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameDarkened Room : Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

SubjectEurope / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Spiritualism, Women's Studies, Europe / Great Britain / General

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBody, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History

AuthorAlex Owen

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight18.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-067155

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal133.9/082/0941

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The book, the spirits, and the historians 1. Power and Gender: The Spiritalist Context 2. Victorian Spiritualism and the Spiritualist Woman 3. Star Mediumship: Light and Shadows 4. At Home with the Theobald Family 5. Women Healers in the Spiritualist World 6. Medicine, Mediumship and Mania 7. Louisa Lowe's Story 8. Spiritualism and the Subversion of Femininity Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisA 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 séance 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 séance 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 s ance 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.

LC Classification NumberBF1275.W65O94 2004