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028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, New Delhi _c: 122276 _d: 06/12/2025
082			_a823 OWE
100			_aOwen, Alex.
245			_aDarkened room _b: women,power and spritualism in late nineteenth century England. _c/Alex Owen.
260			_aLondon _b: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. _c, 2004.
300			_avii, 315p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2173
520			_aA highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums—it's an exploration of the era's gender relations. The hugely popular spiritualist movement, which maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead, offered female mediums a new independence, authority, and potential to undermine conventional class and gender relations in the home and in society. Using previously unexamined sources and an innovative approach, Alex Owen invokes the Victorian world of darkened séance rooms, theatrical apparitions, and moving episodes of happiness lost and regained. She charts the struggles between spiritualists and the medical and legal establishments over the issue of female mediumship, and provides new insights into the gendered dynamics of Victorian society.
650			_aDarkened Room
650			_aWomen & Power
650			_aSpiritualism
700			_aAlex Owen
942			_cBOOK
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