Sex and secularism

by Scott, Joan Wallach

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Title Statements

Full title :Sex and secularism / Joan Wallach Scott.

Summary

"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental and enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the lexicon in the nineteenth century. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott points out that Western nation-states imposed a new order of women's subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics. It was not until the question of Islam arose in the late twentieth century that gender equality became a primary feature of the discourse of secularism"-- Publisher's description

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, New Jersey
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 235 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780691160641, 0691160643, 9780691197227, 0691197229
oclc:ocn983825015
LC Classification:HQ1190
Dewey Decimal:305.42

Introduction: the discourse of secularism -- Women and religion -- Reproductive futurism -- Political emancipation -- From the Cold War to the clash of civilizations -- Sexual emancipation.

Subjects

71.31 sexes and their interrelations Feminism Feminisme Femmes -- Conditions sociales Geschlechtergeschichte Geschlechterrolle Gleichberechtigung Rôle selon le sexe Säkularismus Sex role Women -- Social conditions