Joan Wallach Scott Sex and secularism

Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental principle was not originally associated with the term “secularism” when it first entered the nineteenth century.The inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. 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....

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Engels | 235 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2018

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