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Abstract

"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. "

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Book

ISBN (Print, hardcover): 9781496227782

ISBN (Electronic, epub): 9781496229670

Publication date (Print, hardcover): 15 March 2021

Publication date (Electronic, epub): 21 April 2021

DOI: 10.5250/9781496227782

SO-VID: 0aa81762-d2d0-4f4c-b4e6-89cc84d948c5

Doab ID: 20.500.12854/68036

License:

Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial NoDerivatives License, which permits noncommercial use and distribution in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited, and the original work is not modified.

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Page count

Pages: 420

Funding

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Keywords: History,European History,French History,Europe,France,Civic Morality,Gender Studies,Women’s Studies,Women’s Rights,Political Representation

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A Civil Society : The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744-1944

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