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- catalog abstract ""Divine Feminine is the first full-length study of the relationship between alternative or esoteric spirituality and the feminist movement in England. Historian Joy Dixon examines the Theosophical Society's claims that women and the East were the repositories of spiritual forces which English men had forfeited in their scramble for material and imperial power. Theosophists produced arguments that became key tools in many feminist campaigns. Many women of the Theosophical Society became suffragists to promote the spiritualizing of politics, attempting to create a political role for women as a way to "sacralize the public sphere." Dixon also shows that theosophy provides much of the framework and the vocabulary for today's New Age movement. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b11862459.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Divine Feminine is the first full-length study of the relationship between alternative or esoteric spirituality and the feminist movement in England. Historian Joy Dixon examines the Theosophical Society's claims that women and the East were the repositories of spiritual forces which English men had forfeited in their scramble for material and imperial power. Theosophists produced arguments that became key tools in many feminist campaigns. Many women of the Theosophical Society became suffragists to promote the spiritualizing of politics, attempting to create a political role for women as a way to "sacralize the public sphere." Dixon also shows that theosophy provides much of the framework and the vocabulary for today's New Age movement. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-283) and index.".
- catalog description "The undomesticated occult -- The mahatmas in clubland: manliness and scientific spirituality -- "A deficiency of the male element": gendering spiritual experience -- "Buggery and humbuggery": sex, magic, and occult authority -- Occult body politics -- The divine hermaphrodite and the female messiah: feminism and sprirituality in the 1890s -- A new age for women: suffrage and the sacred -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood.".
- catalog extent "xix, 293 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Divine feminine.".
- catalog identifier "0801864992 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Divine feminine.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 119th ser., 1".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Divine feminine.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "299/.934/0820941 21".
- catalog subject "BP573.F46 D59 2001".
- catalog subject "Feminism England History.".
- catalog subject "Feminism Religious aspects Theosophical Society (Great Britain) History of doctrines.".
- catalog subject "Theosophical Society (Great Britain) History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The undomesticated occult -- The mahatmas in clubland: manliness and scientific spirituality -- "A deficiency of the male element": gendering spiritual experience -- "Buggery and humbuggery": sex, magic, and occult authority -- Occult body politics -- The divine hermaphrodite and the female messiah: feminism and sprirituality in the 1890s -- A new age for women: suffrage and the sacred -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood.".
- catalog title "Divine feminine : theosophy and feminism in England / Joy Dixon.".
- catalog type "text".