Author: Claudie Massicotte
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773549943
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual séances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity. Retracing the history of possession and mediumship among women following the emergence of spiritualism in mid-nineteenth-century Canada – and unearthing a vast collection of archival documents and photographs from séances – Claudie Massicotte pinpoints spiritualism as a site of conflict and gender struggle and redefines modern understandings of female agency. Trance Speakers offers a new feminist and psychoanalytical approach to the religious and creative practice of trance, arguing that by providing women with a voice for their conscious and unconscious desires, this phenomenon helped them resolve their inner struggles in a society that sought to confine their lives. Drawing attention to the fascinating history of spiritualism and its persistent appeal to women, Massicotte makes a strong case for moving this practice out of the margins of the past. A compelling new reading of spiritual possession as a response to conflicting interpretations of authorship, agency, and gender, Trance Speakers shines a much-needed light on women’s religious practices and on the history of spiritualist traditions and travels across North America and Europe.
Trance Speakers
Author: Claudie Massicotte
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773549943
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual séances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity. Retracing the history of possession and mediumship among women following the emergence of spiritualism in mid-nineteenth-century Canada – and unearthing a vast collection of archival documents and photographs from séances – Claudie Massicotte pinpoints spiritualism as a site of conflict and gender struggle and redefines modern understandings of female agency. Trance Speakers offers a new feminist and psychoanalytical approach to the religious and creative practice of trance, arguing that by providing women with a voice for their conscious and unconscious desires, this phenomenon helped them resolve their inner struggles in a society that sought to confine their lives. Drawing attention to the fascinating history of spiritualism and its persistent appeal to women, Massicotte makes a strong case for moving this practice out of the margins of the past. A compelling new reading of spiritual possession as a response to conflicting interpretations of authorship, agency, and gender, Trance Speakers shines a much-needed light on women’s religious practices and on the history of spiritualist traditions and travels across North America and Europe.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773549943
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual séances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity. Retracing the history of possession and mediumship among women following the emergence of spiritualism in mid-nineteenth-century Canada – and unearthing a vast collection of archival documents and photographs from séances – Claudie Massicotte pinpoints spiritualism as a site of conflict and gender struggle and redefines modern understandings of female agency. Trance Speakers offers a new feminist and psychoanalytical approach to the religious and creative practice of trance, arguing that by providing women with a voice for their conscious and unconscious desires, this phenomenon helped them resolve their inner struggles in a society that sought to confine their lives. Drawing attention to the fascinating history of spiritualism and its persistent appeal to women, Massicotte makes a strong case for moving this practice out of the margins of the past. A compelling new reading of spiritual possession as a response to conflicting interpretations of authorship, agency, and gender, Trance Speakers shines a much-needed light on women’s religious practices and on the history of spiritualist traditions and travels across North America and Europe.
Guide to Microforms in Print
Catalogue of the Public Archives Library
Author: Public Archives of Canada. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Lettre pastorale de Monseigneur l'évêque de Montréal, à l'occasion de la nouvelle année
Author: Ignace Bourget
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lettre pastorale de Monseigneur l'eveque de Montreal
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: K G Saur Books
Publisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN: 9783598117121
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Publisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN: 9783598117121
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
The Abbé Grégoire and his World
Author: Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792362470
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbé Henri Grégoire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792362470
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbé Henri Grégoire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Sessions D'étude
Author: Canadian Catholic Historical Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Lettre pastorale de Monseigneur l'évêque de Montréal à l'occasion du renouvellement de l'année
Author: Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benediction
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benediction
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description