Satanic Feminism

Zusatztext Satanic Feminism is strongly recommended to all those interested in understanding the crucial role of Satan in theWestern cultural imagination. ... The author does not restrict himself to a specific focus on Satanism! but interconnects several fields of study! including Western esoteric studies. ... Faxneld's volume goes far beyond prior works on the history of intellectual Satanism. Informationen zum Autor Per Faxneld obtained his PhD in the History of Religions at Stockholm University in 2014. He was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in 2015, and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Mid-Sweden University. He is the author of two monographs on the history of Satanism and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on various matters related to Western esotericism. Klappentext The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and was used to legitimize the subordination of wives and daughters. In the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition and Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator. Per Faxneld shows how this surprising Satanic feminism was expressed in a wide range of nineteenth-century texts and artistic productions. Zusammenfassung According to the Bible! Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries. The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and has been used to legitimize the subordination of wives and daughters. In the nineteenth century! rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition. Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feministliberator of womankind! and Eve became a heroine. In these reimaginings! Satan is an ally in the struggle against a tyrannical patriarchy supported by God the Father and his male priests. Per Faxneld shows how this Satanic feminism was expressed in a wide variety of nineteenth-century literary texts!autobiographies! pamphlets! newspaper articles! paintings! sculptures! and even artifacts of consumer culture like jewelry. He details how colorful figures like the suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton! gender-bending Theosophist H. P. Blavatsky! author Aino Kallas! actress Sarah Bernhardt! anti-clerical witch enthusiast Matilda Joslyn Gage! decadent marchioness Luisa Casati! and the Luciferian lesbian poetess Renée Vivien embraced these reimaginings. By exploring the connections betweenesotericism! literature! art and the political realm! Satanic Feminism sheds new light on neglected aspects of the intellectual history of feminism! Satanism! and revisionary mythmaking. ...

Auteur
Per Faxneld obtained his PhD in the History of Religions at Stockholm University in 2014. He was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in 2015, and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Mid-Sweden University. He is the author of two monographs on the history of Satanism and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on various matters related to Western esotericism.

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The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and was used to legitimize the subordination of wives and daughters. In the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition and Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator. Per Faxneld shows how this surprising Satanic feminism was expressed in a wide range of nineteenth-century texts and artistic productions.

Résumé
According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries. The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and has been used to legitimize the subordination of wives and daughters. In the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition. Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator of womankind, and Eve became a heroine. In these reimaginings, Satan is an ally in the struggle against a tyrannical patriarchy supported by God the Father and his male priests. Per Faxneld shows how this Satanic feminism was expressed in a wide variety of nineteenth-century literary texts, autobiographies, pamphlets, newspaper articles, paintings, sculptures, and even artifacts of consumer culture like jewelry. He details how colorful figures like the suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, gender-bending Theosophist H. P. Blavatsky, author Aino Kallas, actress Sarah Bernhardt, anti-clerical witch enthusiast Matilda Joslyn Gage, decadent marchioness Luisa Casati, and the Luciferian lesbian poetess Renée Vivien embraced these reimaginings. By exploring the connections between esotericism, literature, art and the political realm, Satanic Feminism sheds new light on neglected aspects of the intellectual history of feminism, Satanism, and revisionary mythmaking.

Contenu

• I: Introduction

• II: Woman and the Devil: Some Recurring Motifs

• III: Romantic and Socialist Satanism

• IV: Theosophical Luciferianism and Feminist Celebrations of Eve

• V: Satan as the Emancipator of Woman in Gothic Literature

• VI: Witches as Rebels Against Patriarchy

• VII: Subversive Satanic Women in Decadent Literature and Art

• VIII: Lucifer and the Lesbians: Sapphic Satanism

• IX: Becoming the Demon Woman: Rebellious Role-play

• X: Mary MacLane's Autobiographic Satanic Feminism

• XI: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Liberating Devil

• XII: Conclusions

• Bibliography