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.
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