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Science of the seance

transnational networks and gendered bodies in the study of psychic phenomena, 1918-40

by Beth Anne Robertson

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

Description from SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog (opens in a new tab)

"Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the séance 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."

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Parapsychology and psychical research, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Retained metadata contains “seance” in the title, “Mediums” in the description, “seance” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “seance”· in title
    • “Mediums”· in description
    • “seance”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
    • “seance”· in edition title
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from sudoc matched “parapsychologie”. Retained metadata contains “parapsychologie” in the subject metadata and “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • “parapsychologie”· via SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog
    • “parapsychologie”· in subject
    • “Parapsychology”· in subject
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Retained metadata contains “Metaphysics” in the description.

    • “Metaphysics”· in description

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transnational networks and gendered bodies in the study of psychic phenomena, 1918-40

SUDOC union-catalog record

1 vol. (x-242 p.); 24 cm; Bibliogr. p. 216-231. Index; ill., couv. ill. en coul.

C 2016UBC PressEnglish
  • 9780774833493
  • 9780774833509
  • 0774833491
  • 0774833505
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sudoc:223542563
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