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Parapsychology and Women’s Emancipation: A Historical Cliché?

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Becoming mediums or psychics is framed as an opportunity for feminist commitment. Through the paranormal, the classical view of domesticized and dominated women was challenged by new cultural norms pertaining to gender and corporeality. But is this claim reliable, or is this a historical reconstruction in order to culturalize a scientific controversy, which sidesteps examination of experimental evidence? No empirical studies support this claim. The culturalist interpretation that spiritualist mediumship was above all a privileged mode of expression for oppressed women should therefore be put into perspective.

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hal-04325365 , version 1 (05-12-2023)

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Renaud Evrard. Parapsychology and Women’s Emancipation: A Historical Cliché?. Journal of Anomalistics, 2022, 22, pp.316-323. ⟨hal-04325365⟩
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