The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England Paperback - 2004
by Alex Owen
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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 sance 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.
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- Title The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
- Author Alex Owen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, A5 my pile dark spine
- Date 2004-04-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226642055 / 0226642054
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 0.76 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 1.93 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Women and spiritualism - England - History -, Women mediums - England - History - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003067155
- Dewey Decimal Code 133.908
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