Women artists have often, are often erased from the attention of art curators, critics, and historians but this phenomenon has been doubly so if the artist in question has appeared to be concerned with, or heaven forbid, guided by spiritual concerns, especially those seen as anomalous to the mainstream culture. At the time of Christian sovereignty in the West, this might have been a perceived entanglement with the pagan, the natural world, and the magical. Christian dominance being supplanted in the nineteenth century by a growing scientific materialism, here the impermissible shifts to a perceived engagement with the magical, the paranormal, and any phenomena deemed impossible by the guardians of this 'scientism', not excluding those nestling in the art world temples of the rationalizing modern! Jennifer Higgie shows in her engaging, 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art, and the Spirit World' that this does a disservice not only to the women themselves but to ...