![]() 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. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. ![]() 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.ĭrawing 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. ![]() Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. ![]()
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