ABSTRACT

Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women’s ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism discusses the importance of women’s spiritual knowledge throughout history and under the current socio-economic consensus. Within a critical analysis of the subjugation of certain knowledges, it investigates in particular the role that psychology and psychiatry have played in the repression of women. Aimed at students and researchers in the social sciences, the book will also appeal to anyone interested in critical psychology, politics, activism and social change.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

Of fairies, feminism, and 21st-century capitalism

chapter 1|15 pages

Of trolls and witches

Capitalist codes and women’s praxis

chapter 2|14 pages

The old magic

The contested space of the female body

chapter 3|17 pages

Shamanic immanent alchemy

Liminal transformations

chapter 4|14 pages

Gypsies, tramps, and thieves

On becoming minoritarian

chapter 5|16 pages

Mundane magic

Toward a feminism of the common

chapter 6|14 pages

Revolutionary mojo

Toward a minor psychology