Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

Name: Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference
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ISBN: 9780231162494

ISBN-10: 0231162499

ISBN-13: 9780231162494

Edition: 2013

Authors: Linell Cady, Tracy Fessenden

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Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women's emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



Gendering the Divide



Gendering the Divide: Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference




Secularism and Gender Equality



Response Essays



Sexuality and Secularism




Must It Be Either Secular or Religious? Reflections on the Contemporary Journeys of Women's Rights Activists in Egypt




Religion and Women's Political Mobilization




Gender and the Privatization of Religion



Secular Liberalism, Roman Catholicism, and Social Hierarchies: Understanding Multiple Paths




Gendering the Secular and Religious in Modern Egypt: Woman/Family, and Nation




Women, Religion, and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina




Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Politic



Bodies-Politics: Christian Secularism and the Gendering of U.S. Policy




Crimes of Moral Turpitude: Questions at the Borders of Religion, the Secular, and the U.S. Nation-State




On French Religions and Their Renewed Embodiments




Bridging the Divide



Rescued by Law? Gender and the Global Politics of Secularism




The Brahmin Widow and Female Religious Agency: Anticaste Critique in Two Modern Indian Texts




Issues with Authority: Feminist Commitments in a Late Secular Age



Bibliography


Contributors


Index