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

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

Allen, James Smith

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1496227786
ISBN13: 9781496227782
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: May 1 2022
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Civil Society explores the 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. As a vital component of the third sector during France's modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture.

James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society, including the promotion of women's rights in the late nineteenth century. Pulling together the many gendered facets of masonry, Allen draws from periodicals, memoirs, and archival material to account for the rise of women within the masonic brotherhood in the context of rapid historical change. Thanks to women's social networks and their attendant social capital, masonry came to play a leading role in French civil society and the rethinking of gender relations in the public sphere.

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