Around Joan Scott’s Sex and Secularism

What is it about?

Kim knibbe, Brenda Bartelink, Jelle Wierin, Karin Neutel and Marian Burchardt discuss Joan Scott’s book on Sex and Secularism

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Why is it important?

Joan Scott’s recent work has challenged the claim that secularism and women’s emancipation are inevitably linked. Rather, she shows that the rise of secularism was predicated on the exclusion of women from public life. This gendered difference persists in various ways within current secularisms. Through linking gendered difference to state power, they lend each other a stability that they do not have in themselves. Based on their own research, the authors reflect on this analysis.