Sex and secularism / Joan Wallach Scott.

Sex and secularism / Joan Wallach Scott.

9780691160641 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0691160643 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]

©2018

English

xiii, 235 pages ; 23 cm.

305.42 S427s 2018

(OCoLC)983825015
(OCoLC)983825015

"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 (3z(Bsecularism(3y (Bwhen 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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.

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