Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), p. 197. Gendered social places? They were meeting places for gentlemen. Women remained absent from these intellectual and social spheres up until the 1770s. During the Enlightenment era, some … Select Society (1754), the Pantheon (1773) and the Belles Lettres Society (1759), expressed concern about the place of women in societies; although some accepted them, ladies were not given the chance to participate in the debates. From 1775, t he Pantheon Society for instance agreed to admit women but they could only listen to the debates . Yet, if women could not attend any meetings of societies or clubs …
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