Sex and Secularism PDF
By:Joan Wallach Scott
Published on 2017-10-16 by Princeton University Press
How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claims of the “clash of civilizations” polemic—the false notion that secularism is a guarantee of gender equality. 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. Challenging the assertion that secularism has always been synonymous with equality between the sexes, Sex and Secularism reveals how this idea has been used to justify claims of white, Western, and Christian racial and religious superiority and has served to distract our attention from a persistent set of difficulties related to gender difference—ones shared by Western and non-Western cultures alike.
This Book was ranked at 24 by Google Books for keyword Politique.
Book ID of Sex and Secularism's Books is 4_bWDgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byJoan Wallach Scotthave ETAG "zbN6qjwNU3c"
Book which was published by Princeton University Press since 2017-10-16 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781400888580 and ISBN 10 Code is 1400888581
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "256 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true
Book Preview
Download Sex and Secularism PDF Free
Download Sex and Secularism Books Free
Download Sex and Secularism Free
Download Sex and Secularism PDF
Download Sex and Secularism Books
No comments:
Post a Comment