Lonelygirl15

JCA · Casual Observer Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

Has Alexandra Owen been mentioned?
Thoughts?

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Alexandra Owen (PhD University of Sussex, 1987) is a social and cultural historian specializing in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. Her research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to questions of gender and sexuality, the history of medicine and psychology, and modern heterodox spiritualities, and new work focuses increasingly on issues of subjectivity and cultural modernity. She is the author of The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England, and The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004. She is currently working on a new project on the emergence of new understandings and experience of the self in the modern period.