Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult

by Lisa Kröger

Other authorsMelanie R. Anderson (Author)
Hardcover, 2022

Status

Available

Call number

130.82

Collection

Publication

Quirk Books (2022), 336 pages

Description

"A feminist pop history of the occult in the United States, focusing on specific historical and contemporary magical figures"--

User reviews

LibraryThing member spinsterrevival
I think this was both a great introduction to some of these women as well as a good refresher for those I’ve heard of before. It’s very much a kind of encyclopedia of various historical and contemporary women somehow connected to witchiness in good and bad ways. I wasn’t really a fan of the
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skeptic chapter, but I appreciated that the information was presented fairly clinically (although Houdini sounds like he was an asshole). The table of contents in both the ebook and audiobook were crap as they never broke down the women by name/group except in the ebook index which is never great.
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Awards

Bram Stoker Award (Nominee — Non-Fiction — 2022)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

336 p.; 8.25 inches

ISBN

1683692918 / 9781683692911
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