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Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and the Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40 - Couverture souple

Robertson, Beth A.

 
9780774833509: Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and the Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40
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ISBN 10 : 0774833505 ISBN 13 : 9780774833509
Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2017

Synopsis

Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project. Her findings cast new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform gendered norms in the 1920s and '30s. She reveals a world inhabited, on one side, by psychical researchers who represented themselves as masters of the senses, untainted by the effeminized subjectivity of the body and, on the other, by mediums and ghostly subjects who could and did challenge the researchers' exclusive claims to scientific expertise and authority.

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À propos de l'auteur

Beth A. Robertson is historian of gender, sexuality, and the body who teaches in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University.

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Éditeur
University of British Columbia Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0774833505
ISBN 13 
9780774833509
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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