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
Summary
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
