Joan Wallach Scott

Sex and Secularism

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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 realm… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-691-16064-1
EAN: 9780691160641
Produktnummer: 22861688
Verlag: University Presses
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: H22.4 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.4 cm 458 g
Gewicht: 458

Über den Autor

Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and adjunct professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her many books include The Fantasy of Feminist History, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton), and Gender and the Politics of History.