New Woman

Nicole Onslow's New Woman Tarot is twenty-two majors of contemporary feminist reframing: the trumps reread through modern feminine perspective and power, the New Woman of the title claiming tarot's offices for herself. The format fits the project; revisionist decks concentrate on the majors because that is where the tradition keeps its thrones, and reassigning them is the fastest structural argument available. The deck belongs to the women-centered lineage that runs from the eighties round decks through the Crone's authority to the Fifth Spirit's degendered courts, one of the current's many small independent statements, which together constitute the movement's actual breadth beyond its famous landmarks. It suits collectors of feminist tarot's fuller archive, majors-only readers, students of the revision tradition's grassroots layer, and anyone who understands that movements are mostly made of entries like this one. The landmarks get the citations; the ranks did the work.