Darkened Room Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

Name: Darkened Room Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
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ISBN: 9780226642055

ISBN-10: 0226642054

ISBN-13: 9780226642055

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alex Owen

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'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian period. In so doing she provides new insights into the gender dynamics of Victorian society.

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Alex Owen is professor of history and gender studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Darkened Room, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: The book, the spirits, and the historians



Power and Gender: The Spiritalist Context



Victorian Spiritualism and the Spiritualist Woman



Star Mediumship: Light and Shadows



At Home with the Theobald Family



Women Healers in the Spiritualist World



Medicine, Mediumship and Mania



Louisa Lowe's Story



Spiritualism and the Subversion of Femininity Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index