{"product_id":"a-civil-society-9781496227782","title":"A Civil Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“James Smith Allen presents readers with an engaging, kaleidoscopic account of the uphill and contentious struggle to include select women as full participants in the arcane brotherhood of French freemasonry.”—Karen Offen, author of \u003ci\u003eDebating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Civil Society\u003c\/i\u003e is important because it connects the activism and writing of major figures in French women’s history with masonic networks and impulses. It accomplishes all of this by providing copious evidence presented with clarity.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen in World History: 1450 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this ambitious new study, James Smith Allen seeks to understand how masonic sisters and their fellow travelers contributed to a more liberal republic and open society and engaged civic culture in the Old Regime and modern France. \u003ci\u003eA Civil Society\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to all those interested in the history of sociability, progressive politics, and civil society.”—Kenneth Loiselle, author of \u003ci\u003eBrotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures \u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations  \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e List of French Masonic Orders \/ Obediences \u003cbr\u003e Introduction:  French Women in Public Space \u003cbr\u003e      Freemasonry Writ Large  \u003cbr\u003e      How Else Civil Society – and Freemason Women – Matter  \u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1:  Masonry’s Gendered Variations Before and After 1789 \u003cbr\u003e      The Eighteenth Century’s Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges  \u003cbr\u003e      Freemason Women’s Social Networks in the Old Regime  \u003cbr\u003e      Revolution: The Communities of Freemason Women Transformed \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2:  The Craft’s Long March to Mixed Orders, 1799-1901 \u003cbr\u003e       Variations on Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges \u003cbr\u003e       Freemason Women’s Changing Social Networks in the Nineteenth Century \u003cbr\u003e       Revolution(s): The Successive Redefinitions of Women’s Masonic Communities \u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3:  Women’s Freemasonry and the Women’s Movement, 1901-1944 \u003cbr\u003e       Renewed Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges at Home and Abroad \u003cbr\u003e       The Feminist Networks of Freemason Women \u003cbr\u003e       The Communities of Freemason Women During Two World Wars \u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4:  Contestatory Imaginaries: The Representations of Freemason Women \u003cbr\u003e       Serafina, Comtesse de Cagliostro  \u003cbr\u003e       Pamina and Balkis \u003cbr\u003e      Consuelo, Comtesse de Rudolstadt  \u003cbr\u003e      Diana Vaughan and Others \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion:  Civic Morality in Modern France \u003cbr\u003e      Themes  \u003cbr\u003e      Between Theory and History  \u003cbr\u003e      A Social Conscience \u003cbr\u003e Appendices \u003cbr\u003e Endnotes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Index ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409236664663,"sku":"9781496227782","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496227782.jpg?v=1730506085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-civil-society-9781496227782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}