Women's agency and rituals in mixed and female Masonic orders / / edited by Alexandra Heidle, Jan A.M. Snoek.

• TeilnehmendeR: Heidle, Alexandra.; Snoek, Joannes Augustinus Maria, 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Aries Book Series 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (461 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Women have been structurally part of the masonic enterprise from at least the middle of the 18th century. Yet, little is known about the ways in which they themselves obtained and exercised power to influence the systems they were involved in, in order to adapt them to be more appropriate to their needs. This volume intends to concentrate on two aspects: Women’s agency (i.e. the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (i.e. the role of men and women in changing and shaping the rituals women work with). These two aspects are closely related, since it requires some agency to realise changes in existing rituals.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / A. Heidle and J.A.M. Snoek -- Introduction / Jan A.M. Snoek -- The Relationships Of Androgynous Secret Orders With Freemasonry. Documents On Theordre Des Hermites De Bonne Humeur In Sachsen-Gotha (1739-1758) / Bärbel Raschke -- The Grand Lodge Of Adoption, La Loge De Juste, The Hague, 1751: A Short-Lived Experiment In Mixed Freemasonry Or A Victim Of Elegant Exploitation? / Malcolm Davies -- Maçonnerie Des Dames The Plans Of The Strict Observance To Establish A Female Branch / Andreas Önnerfors -- Freemason Feminists: Masonic Reform And The Women’S Movement In France, 1840-1914 / James Smith Allen -- The ‘Women’s Question’. The Discussion, Especially In The Nineteenth Century, About Opening Membership Of The Dutch Grand Lodge To Women / Anton Van De Sande -- Women And The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn: Nineteenth Century Occultistic Initiation From A Gender Perspective / Henrik Bogdan -- Stretton’s ‘Operative’ Masonry: Legacy Or Forgery? By Bernard Dat Translated / Michael Taylor -- Freemasonry And Suffrage: The Manifestation Of Social Conscience / Ann Pilcher-Dayton -- ‘Builders Of The Temple Of The New Civilisation’: Annie Besant And Freemasonry / Andrew Prescott -- Diversity In Unity? The Masonic Traditions In Use In The Dutch Federation Of ‘Le Droit Humain’ / Anne Van Marion-Weijer -- Index Of Orders And Lodges / A. Heidle and J.A.M. Snoek -- Index Of Names / A. Heidle and J.A.M. Snoek.