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Hijab & the republic : uncovering the French headscarf debate / Bronwyn Winter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and globalizationPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [(c)2008.]Edition: first editionDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 419 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815651321
  • 0815651325
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  • Hijab and the republic
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  • GT2112
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Contents:
Introduction : why France? -- part 1. 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" -- pt. 2. 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 -- part 3. 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.
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Summary: A riveting account of the controversial 2004 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : why France? -- part 1. 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" -- pt. 2. 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 -- part 3. 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.

A riveting account of the controversial 2004 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools.

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