The Women’s Question among the Masons of Russian Paris

The article is a introduction to the publication of the minutes of the meetings of the Russian lodge "Northern Star" in Paris, concerning the discussion on the admission of women to freemasonry. The proposed archival materials, deposited in the National Library of France in Paris, date bac...

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Autor principal:	Michela Venditti
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Publicado:	Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2021
Materias:	north star lodge freemasonry of russian paris gajto gazdanov michail ter-pogosjan michail osorgin Literature (General) PN1-6790 Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d8d45b06476640c38308d774ae5b96e62021-11-24T15:37:54ZThe Women’s Question among the Masons of Russian Paris10.22455/2541-8297-2021-20-314-3322541-82972542-2421https://doaj.org/article/d8d45b06476640c38308d774ae5b96e62021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://litfact.ru/images/2021-20/14_Venditti.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2541-8297https://doaj.org/toc/2542-2421The article is a introduction to the publication of the minutes of the meetings of the Russian lodge "Northern Star" in Paris, concerning the discussion on the admission of women to freemasonry. The proposed archival materials, deposited in the National Library of France in Paris, date back to 1945 and 1948. The women's issue became more relevant after the Second World War due to the fact that Masonic lodges had to recover and recruit new adherents. The article offers a brief overview of the women's issue in the history of Freemasonry in general, and in the Russian emigrant environment in particular. One of the founders of the North Star lodge, M. Osorgin, spoke out in the 1930s against the admission of women. In the discussions of the 1940s, the Masonic brothers repeat his opinion almost literally. Women's participation in Freemasonry is rejected using either gender or social arguments. Russian Freemasons mostly cite gender reasons: women have no place in Freemasonry because they are not men. Freemasonry, according to Osorgin, is a cult of the male creative principle, which is not peculiar to women. Discussions about the women's issue among Russian emigrant Freemasons are also an important source for studying their literary work; in particular, the post-war literary works of Gaito Gazdanov are closely connected with the Masonic ideology.Michela VendittiRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticlenorth star lodgefreemasonry of russian parisgajto gazdanovmichail ter-pogosjanmichail osorginLiterature (General)PN1-6790Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUЛитературный факт, Iss 2 (20), Pp 314-332 (2021)
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description	The article is a introduction to the publication of the minutes of the meetings of the Russian lodge "Northern Star" in Paris, concerning the discussion on the admission of women to freemasonry. The proposed archival materials, deposited in the National Library of France in Paris, date back to 1945 and 1948. The women's issue became more relevant after the Second World War due to the fact that Masonic lodges had to recover and recruit new adherents. The article offers a brief overview of the women's issue in the history of Freemasonry in general, and in the Russian emigrant environment in particular. One of the founders of the North Star lodge, M. Osorgin, spoke out in the 1930s against the admission of women. In the discussions of the 1940s, the Masonic brothers repeat his opinion almost literally. Women's participation in Freemasonry is rejected using either gender or social arguments. Russian Freemasons mostly cite gender reasons: women have no place in Freemasonry because they are not men. Freemasonry, according to Osorgin, is a cult of the male creative principle, which is not peculiar to women. Discussions about the women's issue among Russian emigrant Freemasons are also an important source for studying their literary work; in particular, the post-war literary works of Gaito Gazdanov are closely connected with the Masonic ideology.
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The Women’s Question among the Masons of Russian Paris

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