The eloquent blood

Oxford University Press

2020

xi, 374 p.

Oxford studies in Western esotericism

9780190065027

AcknowledgementsI. Encountering the Scarlet GoddessII. Divine Women, Femmes, and Whores: The Theorization of Multiple FemininitiesIII. The Scarlet Goddess and the Wine of Her Fornications: Crowley, Babalon, and the Femme Fatale 1898-1909IV. Yielding Peaches and Women with Whips: Babalon, Crowley, and Magical Systematization 1911-1947V. Her Banner is Unfolded: Babalon and Scarlet Femininities in the Writings of Jack ParsonsVI. Kundalini, Kalas, and Qadeshim: Babalon and Femininity as Other in the Writings of Kenneth GrantVII. Intermezzo: Contemporary Occultism and ThelemaVIII. "It All Goes in the Cup": Receptivity and Unstable Polarities in the Contemporary Babalon DiscourseIX. Feminist Difference: Babalon and the Hope of an Alternative FemininityX. Inhabiting the Uninhibited: Babalon, Sexual Politics, and the Liberation of the Desiring Feminine SubjectXI. Possession and Dispossession: Embodiment, Ecstasy, and Erotic DestructionXII. "Like Fire and Powder": Erotic Destruction and the Eloquent BloodXIII. Bibliography

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