Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend to presume women's emancipation is ineluctably tied to secularization. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference upsets this certainty by drawing on diverse voices and traditions in studies that historicize, question, and test the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than position secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, this volume shows both religion and the secular collaborate in creating the conditions that generate them.
- Table of Contents
- Preface / Acknowledgments
- PART 1: Gendering the Divide
- 1. Gendering the Divide: Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Differenc | Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden
- 2. Secularism and Gender Equality | Joan Wallach Scott
- 3. Sexuality and Secularism | Saba Mahmood
- 4. Must It Be Either Secular or Religious? Reflections on the Contemporary Journeys of Women's Rights Activists in Egypt | Azza Karam
- 5. Religion and Women's Political Mobilization | Ann Braude
- PART 2: Gender and the Privatization of Religion
- 6. Secular Liberalism, Roman Catholicism, and Social Hierarchies: Understanding Multiple Paths | Gene Burns
- 7. Gendering the Secular and Religious in Modern Egypt: Woman, Family, and Nation | Margot Badran
- 8. Women, Religion, and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zilka Spahic-Siljak
- PART 3: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Politic
- 9. Bodies-Politics: Christian Secularism and the Gendering of U.S. Policy | Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini
- 10. Crimes of Moral Turpitude: Questions at the Borders of Religion, the Secular, and the U.S. Nation-State | Molly K. McGarry
- 11. On French Religions and Their Renewed Embodiments | Nacira Guenif-Souilamas
- PART 4: Bridging the Divide
- 12. Rescued By Law? Gender and the Global Politics of Secularism | Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- 13. The Brahmin Widow and Female Religious Agency: Anticaste Critique in Two Modern Indian Texts | Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
- 14. Issues With Authority: Feminist Commitments in a Late Secular Age | David Kyuman Kim
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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