Science of the seance : transnational networks and gendered bodies in the study of psychic phenomena, 1918-40
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Vancouver ; UBC Press, [2016].
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9780774833493, 0774833491, 9780774833509, 0774833505
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Published
Vancouver ; UBC Press, [2016].
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Book
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x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
ISBN
9780774833493, 0774833491, 9780774833509, 0774833505
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-231) and index.
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"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"--,Source other than Library of Congress.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Robertson, B. A. (2016). Science of the seance: transnational networks and gendered bodies in the study of psychic phenomena, 1918-40 . UBC Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Robertson, Beth A.. 2016. Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40. UBC Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Robertson, Beth A.. Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40 UBC Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Robertson, Beth A.. Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40 UBC Press, 2016.
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