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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Addresses of the Editors and Authors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Relationships of Androgynous Secret Orders with Freemasonry; Documents on the Ordre des Hermites de bonne humeur in Sachsen-Gotha (1739-1758) -- Chapter 2 -- 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? -- Chapter 3 -- Ma231;onnerie des Dames: The Plans of the Strict Observance to Establish a Female Branch -- Chapter 4 -- Freemason Feminists: Masonic Reform and the Women's Movement in France, 1840-1914 -- Chapter 5 -- The 'Women's Question'. The Discussion, Especially in the Nineteenth Century, About Opening Membership of the Dutch Grand Lodge to Women -- Chapter 6 -- Women and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Nineteenth Century Occultist Initiation from a Gender Perspective -- Chapter 7 -- Stretton's 'Operative' Masonry: Legacy or Forgery? -- Chapter 8 -- Freemasonry and Suffrage: The Manifestation of Social Conscience -- Chapter 9 -- 'Builders of the Temple of the New Civilisation': Annie Besant and Freemasonry -- Chapter 10 -- Diversity In Unity? Background and History of the Different Masonic Traditions Within the Craft Lodges of the Dutch Federation of the International Order of Mixed Freemasonry 'Le Droit Humain' -- Index of Orders and Lodges -- Index of Names.

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Women have been structurally part of the masonic enterprise from at least the middle of the 18th century. This volume focuses on two aspects: Women's agency (the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (the role of men and women in changing and shaping the rituals women work with).

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