LEADER 03615nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910810936903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8018-7530-7 024 7 $a2027/heb04494 035 $a(CKB)111056486617198 035 $a(EBL)3318135 035 $a(OCoLC)923190543 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084082 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11112488 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084082 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10164900 035 $a(PQKB)11185753 035 $a(OCoLC)51504313 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse20124 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318135 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10021604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318135 035 $a(dli)HEB04494 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005426114 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486617198 100 $a20000606d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDivine feminine $etheosophy and feminism in England /$fJoy Dixon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBaltimore, Md. $cJohns Hopkins University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 293 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;$v119th ser., 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8018-6499-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction --$tPART ONE: DOMESTICATING THE OCCULT --$t1. The Undomesticated Occult --$t2. The Mahatmas in Clubland: Manliness and Scientific Spirituality --$t3. "A Deficiency of the Male Element": Gendering Spiritual Experience --$t4. "Buggery and Humbuggery": Sex, Magic, and Occult Authority --$tPART TWO: POLITICAL ALCHEMIES --$t5. Occult Body Politics --$t6. The Divine Hermaphrodite and the Female Messiah: Feminism and Spirituality in the 1890's --$t7. A New Age for Women: Suffrage and the Sacred --$t8. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Motherhood --$tConclusion 330 $aDivine Feminine is the first full-length study of the relationship between alternative or esoteric spirituality and the feminist movement in England. Historian Joy Dixon examines the Theosophical Society's claims that women and the East were the repositories of spiritual forces which English men had forfeited in their scramble for material and imperial power. Theosophists produced arguments that became key tools in many feminist campaigns. Many women of the Theosophical Society became suffragists to promote the spiritualizing of politics, attempting to create a political role for women as a way to "sacralize the public sphere." Dixon also shows that theosophy provides much of the framework and the vocabulary for today's New Age movement. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today. 410 0$aJohns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;$v119th ser., 1. 606 $aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xTheosophical Society (Great Britain)$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aFeminism$zEngland$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xTheosophical Society (Great Britain)$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory. 676 $a299/.934/0820941 700 $aDixon$b Joy$f1962-$01213846 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810936903321 996 $aDivine feminine$92803298 997 $aUNINA