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

• Author: Allen, James Smith
• Place / Publishing House: [S.l.] : : University of Nebraska Press, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.; 1 online resource.

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

Machine generated contents note: List of Figures -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- List of French Masonic Orders / Obediences -- Introduction: French Women in Public Space -- Freemasonry Writ Large -- How Else Civil Society - and Freemason Women - Matter -- Chapter 1: Masonry's Gendered Variations Before and After 1789 -- The Eighteenth Century's Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges -- Freemason Women's Social Networks in the Old Regime -- Revolution: The Communities of Freemason Women Transformed -- Chapter 2: The Craft's Long March to Mixed Orders, 1799-1901 -- Variations on Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges -- Freemason Women's Changing Social Networks in the Nineteenth Century -- Revolution(s): The Successive Redefinitions of Women's Masonic Communities -- Chapter 3: Women's Freemasonry and the Women's Movement, 1901-1944 -- Renewed Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges at Home and Abroad -- The Feminist Networks of Freemason Women -- The Communities of Freemason Women During Two World Wars -- Chapter 4: Contestatory Imaginaries: The Representations of Freemason Women -- Serafina, Comtesse de Cagliostro -- Pamina and Balkis -- Consuelo, Comtesse de Rudolstadt -- Diana Vaughan and Others -- Conclusion: Civic Morality in Modern France -- Themes -- Between Theory and History -- A Social Conscience -- Appendices -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index .