Research Catalog

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

Title
  1. Science of the seance : transnational networks and gendered bodies in the study of psychic phenomena, 1918-40 / Beth A. Robertson.
Published by
  1. Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2016]
Author
  1. Robertson, Beth A. (Beth Anne), 1981-

Items in the library and off-site

Filter by

Displaying 1 item

StatusFormatAccessCall numberItem location
Status
Request for on-site useRequest scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

FormatTextAccessUse in libraryCall numberJFE 17-402Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description
  1. x, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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."--
Subject
  1. Parapsychology > Research > History > 20th century
  2. Spiritualism > Research > History > 20th century
  3. Parapsychology and science > History > 20th century
  4. Science and spiritualism > History > 20th century
  5. Parapsychologists > History > 20th century
  6. Sex role
Call number
  1. JFE 17-402
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Issued also in electronic formats.
Author
  1. Robertson, Beth A. (Beth Anne), 1981- author.
Title
  1. Science of the seance : transnational networks and gendered bodies in the study of psychic phenomena, 1918-40 / Beth A. Robertson.
Publisher
  1. Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2016]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional formats
  1. Issued also in electronic formats.
Other form:
  1. Robertson, Beth A. (Beth Anne), 1981-, author. Science of the seance. (CaOONL)20169051641
ISBN
  1. 9780774833493 (hardback)
  2. 0774833491 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JFE 17-402
View in legacy catalog