dc.contributor.author | Jones, Graham M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-13T14:22:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-03-13T14:22:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-12 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 00027294 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96010 | |
dc.description.abstract | Profound paradoxes motivate Lilith Mahmud’s singular ethnography of Italian Freemason women: although the Enlightenment’s core democratic values of liberty, equality, and fraternity in many ways originated within Euro-American Freemasonry, most Italians suspect present-day Freemasons of involvement in nefarious antidemocratic conspiracies. Moreover, Freemasons’ marginalization of women betrays how deep-rooted exclusivity compromises their guiding principle of universal
brotherhood. It is among the social networks of women who nevertheless gravitate to Freemasonry’s official auxiliary societies and to mixed-gender or women-only lodges not sanctioned by Freemasonry’s paramount governing body that Mahmud conducts a form of ethnography she terms “profane”—mostly (but not always) outside sacred ritual spaces. In describing how these women style themselves as “brothers” and aspire to enact fraternity as a genderless value, Mahmud casts light on the broader tradition of European liberal humanism and its limitations. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Inc | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.12162_16 | en_US |
dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
dc.source | American Anthropological Association | en_US |
dc.title | The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges by Lilith Mahmud. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Jones, Graham M. Review of “The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges by Lilith Mahmud.” American Anthropologist 116, no. 4 (November 26, 2014): 879–880. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Jones, Graham M. | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | American Anthropologist | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookReview | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Jones, Graham M. | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6435-7066 | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |