Sex and Secularism
Joan Wallach Scott
Abstract
The author's acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. In this book, the author challenges one of the central claims of the “clash of civilizations” polemic—that secularism guarantees gender equality. The book 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. The book reveals how the assertion that secularis ... More
Keywords: gender inequality, gender history, secularism, Western modernity, gender difference, gender equality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780691197227 |
| Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: May 2020 | DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691197227.001.0001 |
