“El imaginario de la propaganda franquista sobre la llamada ‘masonería femenina’”

Abstract

The subjugation of women and Freemason men’s lack of trust in them, women’s subsidiary role, seems to have been left unattended as a cliché and a mirage. Regardless of the specific effects that this kind of book (La Masonería Femenina) got in Franco’s Spain, we have to take into account how women’s image was distorted: women were depicted as subdued, women’s lodges had a subordinate function, subjected to the will of men Masons. If we cross this residual perception we see that in reality Freemasonry has been keeping a male trend that only welcomes women in its orbit to participate in its philosophy and in charities, thus the mirage is created and the discourse of victimization, progressive cover, is too.