Sex and Secularism
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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19722-7 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19722-7 (ISBN)
How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-statesJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, she challenges one of the central claims of the "clash of civilizations" polemic-that secularism guarantees gender equality. Drawing on a wealt
How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-states
Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, she challenges one of the central claims of the "clash of civilizations" polemic—that secularism guarantees gender equality. Drawing on a wealth of scholarship, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as an enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the nineteenth-century lexicon. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott reveals how the assertion that secularism has been synonymous with equality between the sexes has distracted our attention from difficulties related to gender difference—ones shared by Western and non-Western cultures alike.
How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-states
Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, she challenges one of the central claims of the "clash of civilizations" polemic—that secularism guarantees gender equality. Drawing on a wealth of scholarship, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as an enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the nineteenth-century lexicon. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott reveals how the assertion that secularism has been synonymous with equality between the sexes has distracted our attention from difficulties related to gender difference—ones shared by Western and non-Western cultures alike.
Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and adjunct professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her many books include the classic Gender and the Politics of History, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton), and Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.11.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Public Square |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-19722-9 / 0691197229 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-19722-7 / 9780691197227 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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