Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses

Table of Contents

Introduction Amy Hale

Part I: Race Place and Othering

Chapter One: Jessica A. Albrecht: Mrs. Rosa Frances Swiney: Imperial Feminism and Eugenics in Theosophical Evolutionist Thought

Chapter Two: Thea Wirsching: The Myth of Pamela Colman Smith's Blackness: Ethnic Impersonation in the Modern Esoteric Milieu

Chapter Three: Diana Brown: "Eastern Methods"/"Western Bodies": Dion Fortune's Shifting Positions on Yoga, 1929 -1940

Part II: Locating the Feminine

Chapter Four: Michele Olzi: The Devil Wears Pink: The Representation and Role of Woman in the Occultism of Maria de Naglowska

Chapter Five:  Christa Shusko: The Power of Beauty: Eleanor Kirk's Feminine Esotericism

Chapter Six: Jay Johnston: Painterly Desire: Ithell Colquhoun's Other-than-Human Art

Part III: Rethinking Influence, Power and Authority

Chapter Seven: Vivianne Crowley: Doreen Valiente: Unmotherly Mother of Modern Witchcraft

Chapter Eight: Melvyn Draper: The Crucible of Modernity: Florence Farr & the Esoteric Woman

Chapter Nine: Julia Phillips: Madeline Montalban: Magus of the Morning Star

Chapter Ten: Deja Whitehouse: 'The Seeker' - Frieda Harris's Quest for Esoteric Fulfillment

Chapter Eleven: Susan Johnston Graf : George Yeats: Amanuensis to Inner Plane Spirits

Part IV: Embodiment

Chapter Twelve:  Elizabeth Lowry: "Telling the World's Fortune": Eileen Garrett, Psychic Medium and Pioneer Parapsychologist.

Chapter Thirteen: Marla Segol: How to Make a Magician: Kabbalah, Psychotherapy and the Mechanics of Syncretism in Colette Aboulker-Muscat's Waking Dreamwork

Chapter Fourteen: Anne Parker Perkola: Dion Fortune and the Temples of the Numinous

Chapter Fifteen: Minji Lee: True Knowledge of God Obscured in Mind and Body:  Hildegard of Bingen's Medical and Religious Understanding of Adam's Fall

Index