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Princeton University Press, 2004); Claire Guilhem, “L’Inquisition et la
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11 Braude, Radical Spirits, 93.
12 Ibid., 91.
13 Ibid., 84.
14 Ibid.
15 Braude, Radical Spirits, 99.
16 Ibid., 115.
17 Ibid., 94.
18 Ibid., 2.
19 Joy Dixon, The Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 150.
20 James Webb, The Occult Establishment (La Salle: Open Court Publishing
Company, 1976).
21 Dixon, The Divine Feminine, 6.
22 Ibid., 158. Gray’s Theosophical-feminist Manifesto was published in Lucifer,
the journal of the Theosophical Society, in October, 1890.
23 Swiney’s book received mixed reviews when it was published, and it
continues to receive mixed reviews up to the present. On the one hand, it has
been seen as a fierce denunciation of women’s oppression and, on the other, as
an unabashed example of late Victorian racial feminism. See Dixon, The Divine
Feminine, 167.
24 Braude, Radical Spirits, 160.
25 Ibid, 158.
26 Great Pictures in Private Galleries. 2 vols. (London: Cassell & Co., 1905),
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27 Moebius’s essay “On the Physiological Debility of Woman” (1898) was often
reprinted. Cited in Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity, 172.
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