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Women - one of Freemasonry's best-kept secrets - are often upper class and highly educated but paradoxically antifeminist, and their self-cultivation through the Masonic path is an effort to embrace the deeply gendered ideals of fraternity. The author unravels this contradiction at the heart of Freemasonry.

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"A riveting analysis of the women Freemasons in Italy that illuminates the debates about and paradoxes of women's inclusion into a controversial secret 'brotherhood.' Mahmud initiates us with wisdom into the contradictions of a liberal political philosophy that extols universal brotherhood but is embedded in exclusionary practices of community and ritual based on class, race, and gender. This feminist ethnography is sure to become a classic in the anthropology of Europe." (Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?)"

The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 4/4/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226095721, 978-0226095721
      ISBN10: 022609572X
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      Gender studies: women and girls Social and cultural anthropology Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Women - one of Freemasonry's best-kept secrets - are often upper class and highly educated but paradoxically antifeminist, and their self-cultivation through the Masonic path is an effort to embrace the deeply gendered ideals of fraternity. The author unravels this contradiction at the heart of Freemasonry.

      Trade Review
      "A riveting analysis of the women Freemasons in Italy that illuminates the debates about and paradoxes of women's inclusion into a controversial secret 'brotherhood.' Mahmud initiates us with wisdom into the contradictions of a liberal political philosophy that extols universal brotherhood but is embedded in exclusionary practices of community and ritual based on class, race, and gender. This feminist ethnography is sure to become a classic in the anthropology of Europe." (Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?)"

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