Book Review: Essays on Women in Western Esotericism – II
Continuing with my review of Essays on Women in Western Esotericism from March (part 1).
As editor Amy Hale points out in her introduction, the women profiled in this collection (for the most part British, living between the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries) lived at a time when women’s involvement in the esoteric was becoming more visible, as was women’s involvement with other social movements. These women saw esotericism – in varying degrees, as a route for both personal and social transformation.
