Performing the Lodge: Masonry, masculinity, and nineteenth-century North American moral geography |
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Authors: | Phillip Gordon Mackintosh Clyde R Forsberg |
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Institution: | aBrock University, Department of Geography, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1;bAletheia University, Taipei, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Geographies reinforce gender and facilitate gender performativity. In this study of nineteenth-century Masonry, we demonstrate the influence of Masonic Temples in the promotion and performance of ‘Masonic masculinity.’ Masonry, through its design and construction of interior space, its embedded material symbolism and especially the geography of Masonic ritual itself, inculcated morality in prospective and raised Master Masons. Masonic Temple architecture and décor typify Victorian moral environmentalism vis-à-vis the parlor, the Masonic Lodge a domesticated male space where significant numbers of bourgeois men (and women) acted out a particular and peculiar masculine moral geography. |
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Keywords: | Gender performance Freemasonry Ritual Masculinity Moral environmentalism |
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