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A Civil Society: The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744-1944

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James Smith Allen
2021
Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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James Smith Allen explores the two-hundred-year struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France’s civil society and its “civic morality” on behalf of women’s rights.
 

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Epigraph, Contents, List of Figures and Tables, List of Illustrations, List of Abbreviations and Acronyms, French Masonic Orders/Obediences/Rites, Preface

pp. i-xxiv

Introduction. French Women in Public Space

pp. 1-18

1. Masonry's Gendered Variations before and after 1789

pp. 19-56

2. The Craft's Long March to Mixed Orders, 1799-1901

pp. 57-92

3. Women's Masonry and the Women's Movement from the Fin de Siècle to 1944

pp. 93-128

4. Contesting Imaginaries of Freemason Women

pp. 129-169

Conclusion. Civic Morality in Modern France

pp. 170-186

Appendices

pp. 187-198

Notes

pp. 199-248

Bibliography

pp. 249-326
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