According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to
eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's
subsequent miseries. The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice
is prominent throughout Christian history and has been used to
legitimize the subordination of wives and daughters. In the
nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings
of this misogynist tradition. Lucifer was reconceptualized as a
feminist liberator of womankind, and Eve became a heroine. In these
reimaginings, Satan is an ally in the struggle against a tyrannical
patriarchy supported by God the Father and his male priests. Per
Faxneld shows how this Satanic feminism was expressed in a wide
variety of nineteenth-century literary texts, autobiographies,
pamphlets, newspaper articles, paintings, sculptures, and even
artifacts of consumer culture like jewelry. He details how colorful
figures like the suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, gender-bending
Theosophist H. P. Blavatsky, author Aino Kallas, actress Sarah
Bernhardt, anti-clerical witch enthusiast Matilda Joslyn Gage,
decadent marchioness Luisa Casati, and the Luciferian lesbian
poetess Renee Vivien embraced these reimaginings. By exploring the
connections between esotericism, literature, art and the political
realm, Satanic Feminism sheds new light on neglected aspects of the
intellectual history of feminism, Satanism, and revisionary
mythmaking.
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