Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300-2000
By: Edited by Máire Fedelma Cross
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230272576
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: HISTORY / Renaissance; Societies and clubs; Men; HISTORY / Medieval; Women; Confraternities; Sex role; HISTORY / Europe / General; Guilds; Freemasonry; Fraternal organizations; History; Associations, institutions; HISTORY / Modern / General
Description: "What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of "separate spheres" in Europe"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: Preface; title: Seven Hundred Years of Fraternal Orders; D. Weinbren; title: Men and Women in the Guild Returns; A. Prescott; title: Women in Monastic Orders; A. Winston-Allen; title: The Archduchess and the Parrot; M. Twycross; title: Masonic Apologetic Writings; R. Beachy; title: Protectresses in Jacobite Fraternities; R. Collis; title: 'The Fair Sex' in 'Male Sects'; R. Péter; title: 'Sisters of Virtue' in Swedish Pomerania; A. Önnerfors; title: French Masonic Culture on the Eve of the Revolution; J. Smith Allen; title: The Fraternity of Female Friendly Societies; D. Weinbren; title: Flora Tristan's Appeal for Fraternity; M.F. Cross; title: Squads and Ha's; P.M. King; title: Notes; title: Index.