Publication

2017 - Princeton University Press

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780691160641
  • ISBN-100691160643
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017015590
  • OCLC Control Number983825015
  • Better World Books9780691160641
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCHQ1190.S38 2018
  • LCCHQ1190 .S38 2018

Description

"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

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Sex and SecularismPrinceton University Press2017

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