Sex and Secularism (eBook)

Joan Wallach Scott (Autor)

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2017
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8858-0 (ISBN)

Infos

How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of womenJoan 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 "e;clash of civilizations"e; 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 "e;secularism"e; 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.

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.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: activism • Antithesis • Atheism • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • celibacy • Christianity • Citizenship • Civilization • Civilizing Mission • Civil Society • Clash of civilizations • Claude Lefort • Colonialism • communism • Conscience • Democracy • Disenchantment • Division of Labour • Domestic violence • Exclusion • femininity • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Feminist Movement • Font Bureau • Frantz Fanon • freedom of religion • Gender equality • Gender Inequality • Gender Role • Homosexuality • Household • Ideology • imperialism • Incest • Individualism • Institution • Islamophobia • J. (newspaper) • Joseph Massad • Legislator • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Liberalization • marriage • Masculinity • Modernity • Morality • mother • national identity • nation state • Nuclear family • of education • Patriarchy • Philosopher • Polemic • Political Freedom • Political Philosophy • Politician • Politics • Polygamy • Princeton University Press • Private Sphere • Prostitution • Protestantism • Public sphere • Religion • Religion and Sexuality • Revolution • rhetoric • Saba Mahmood • Secularism • Secularization • Secular state • sensibility • separate spheres • Sex differences in humans • sexual desire • Sexual Revolution • Slavery • Society • Sociology • Sovereignty • Spirituality • Subversion • Suffrage • theocracy • the woman question • type design • Typeface • Violence Against Women • Welfare State • Western Culture • Western Europe • Wilhelm Reich • Women in Islam • Women's International Democratic Federation • women's rights
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8858-1 / 1400888581
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8858-0 / 9781400888580