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

Robertson, Beth A., author

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\"Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the sâeance 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.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Subject: Parapsychology Research History 20th century. / Spiritualism Research History 20th century. / Parapsychology and science History 20th century. / Science and spiritualism History 20th century. / Parapsychologists History 20th century. / Sex role.
• ISBN: 9780774833493, 0774833491

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BF1028.R63 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE