03615nam 2200625Ia 450 991081093690332120200520144314.00-8018-7530-72027/heb04494(CKB)111056486617198(EBL)3318135(OCoLC)923190543(SSID)ssj0000084082(PQKBManifestationID)11112488(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084082(PQKBWorkID)10164900(PQKB)11185753(OCoLC)51504313(MdBmJHUP)muse20124(Au-PeEL)EBL3318135(CaPaEBR)ebr10021604(MiAaPQ)EBC3318135(dli)HEB04494(MiU)MIU01000000000000005426114(EXLCZ)9911105648661719820000606d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDivine feminine theosophy and feminism in England /Joy Dixon1st ed.Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Pressc20011 online resource (xix, 293 pages) illustrationsThe Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;119th ser., 1Description based upon print version of record.0-8018-6499-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction --PART ONE: DOMESTICATING THE OCCULT --1. The Undomesticated Occult --2. The Mahatmas in Clubland: Manliness and Scientific Spirituality --3. "A Deficiency of the Male Element": Gendering Spiritual Experience --4. "Buggery and Humbuggery": Sex, Magic, and Occult Authority --PART TWO: POLITICAL ALCHEMIES --5. Occult Body Politics --6. The Divine Hermaphrodite and the Female Messiah: Feminism and Spirituality in the 1890's --7. A New Age for Women: Suffrage and the Sacred --8. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Motherhood --ConclusionDivine 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.Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;119th ser., 1.FeminismReligious aspectsTheosophical Society (Great Britain)History of doctrinesFeminismEnglandHistoryFeminismReligious aspectsTheosophical Society (Great Britain)History of doctrines.FeminismHistory.299/.934/0820941Dixon Joy1962-1213846MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810936903321Divine feminine2803298UNINA