Hijab & the republic uncovering the French headscarf debate

Introduction: why France? -- Contextualizing the debate. A very modern tradition: background to the "new veiling" -- The "cornerstone of the republic": secularism and the regulation of religion -- French Muslims: between "integration" and "Muslimism" -- A fift...

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1. Verfasser: Winter, Bronwyn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Syracuse, NY Syracuse Univ. Press 2008
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Gender and globalization
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: why France? -- Contextualizing the debate. A very modern tradition: background to the "new veiling" -- The "cornerstone of the republic": secularism and the regulation of religion -- French Muslims: between "integration" and "Muslimism" -- A fifteen-year saga. 1989: three little girls and a great big "psychodrama" -- 1990-1995: from psychodrama to saga -- 1995-2004 and beyond: how ostentatiousness became conspicuous -- Feminists caught in the contradictions. The politics of hijabization -- Co-optations and instrumentalizations -- Feminist confusions and confrontations -- Conclusion: French lessons for the West? -- Appendix: Chronology.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383) and index
Beschreibung:XII, 419 S.
23 cm
ISBN:9780815631743
978-0-8156-3174-3
081563174X
0-8156-3174-X
9780815631996
978-0-8156-3199-6
0815631995
0-8156-3199-5