Women in Masonic Orders

[Tamrin]

Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders

A collection of scholarly essays, this book examines the varied relationships women have had with Freemasonry over the centuries through “adoptive,” mixed/female, and assorted esoteric bodies. Specifically, it explores two aspects of these connections, “(w)omen’s agency (ie. the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (ie. women in changing and shaping the rituals they work with).”