Espousing Apostasy and Feminism? Older and Younger British Female Apostates Compared

Eccles, Janet; Catto, Rebecca

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“…2 Scholars have suggested that this disproportion may be caused by women's unwillingness to come out F o r P e e r R e v i e w O n l y of the atheist closet lest they risk ostracism (Goldstein and Jacoby, 2015;Edgell, Frost, and Stewart, 2017). Meanwhile, the sociological study of atheism and gender remains in its infancy (Mahlamäki, 2012;Eccles and Catto, 2015;Author, 2018). Thus far, the richest available data come from the historical records of organised secularists, otherwise known as Freethinkers (Jacoby, 2004).…”

Section: Atheism Gender and Rebellionmentioning

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‘Atheism is not the problem. The problem is being a woman’. Atheist women and reasonable feminism

Trzebiatowska

2018

Journal of Gender Studies

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While the percentage of religiously unaffiliated women is growing in the West, little is known about the relationship between atheism and feminism. This article redresses the gap by exploring women's identification with atheism and feminism. The central argument draws on qualitative interview data from the UK, Australia, the US, and Poland and emphasizes the role of atheism as a background identity marker through which female subjectivity is enacted in everyday life. The findings are twofold: first, atheism and feminism are both devalued identities when embraced by women; and second, identifying as an atheist affords the participants an impetus to invent a new vocabulary to account for their identity. In conclusion I argue that atheism provides a catalyst for the postfeminist discourse of independence, empowerment, and freedom of choice as the participants construct narratives of 'reasonable feminism'. Pew Research Forum, 'the religiously unaffiliated are growing among women at about the same rate as among men. Nearly one in five women (19%) now describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated, up from 13% in 2007' (2015: 14).' 1 While women inhabit nonreligious culture in greater numbers, few openly declare themselves 'as convinced 1 The report pertains to the U.S. data only. For a nuanced analysis of the gender gap in religiosity globally, see Pew Research Center 2016.

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Section: Atheism Gender and Rebellionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Atheism is not the problem. The problem is being a woman’. Atheist women and reasonable feminism

Trzebiatowska

2018

Journal of Gender Studies

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“…1 For example, Bullivant (2008), Zuckerman (2010;), Cotter (2015, Eccles (2013), Chervallil-Contractor et al (2013), Hassall and Bushfield (2014), Silver et al (2014), Baker and Smith (2015), P. Beyer (2015), Eccles and Catto (2015), Lee (2015), Mann (2015), Manning (2015), and Zuckerman, Galen and Pasquale (2016), among others.…”

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Incorporating Secularism and Related Constructs within the Critical Study of Religion

Cotter

2019

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‘The Church is against us!’ Feminist collective apostasies and the struggle for gender equality in Argentina and Spain

Martínez-Ariño

2024

Religion, State and Society

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Espousing Apostasy and Feminism? Older and Younger British Female Apostates Compared

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

‘Atheism is not the problem. The problem is being a woman’. Atheist women and reasonable feminism

‘Atheism is not the problem. The problem is being a woman’. Atheist women and reasonable feminism

Incorporating Secularism and Related Constructs within the Critical Study of Religion

‘The Church is against us!’ Feminist collective apostasies and the struggle for gender equality in Argentina and Spain

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