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The brotherhood of Freemason sisters : gender, secrecy, and fraternity in Italian Masonic lodges / Lilith Mahmud.
LIBRA HS447.I8 M345 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahmud, Lilith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freemasons--Italy.
- Freemasons.
- Women and freemasonry--Italy.
- Women and freemasonry.
- Freemasonry--Italy.
- Freemasonry.
- Freemasons. Grande Oriente Lusitano Unido.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 249 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Freemasonry is one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world, but few people know that there are women inside this elite brotherhood, too. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Lilith Mahmud offers a thrilling look at Masonic lodges in contemporary Italy and at the fraternal and ritual bonds forged among women initiates of this esoteric society. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Spaces of discretion
- Password I
- Initiations
- Brotherly love
- Password II
- Speculative labor
- Password III
- Transparent conspiracies
- Coda: a profanation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226095721
- 022609572X
- 9780226095868
- 022609586X
- OCLC:
- 849510065
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