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The experiences of face veil wearers in Europe and the law /

"One of the most remarkable aspects pertaining to the legal bans and societal debates on the face veil in Europe is that they rely on assumptions which lack any factual basis. To rectify this, Eva Brems researched the experiences of women who wear a face veil in Belgium, and brought her researc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brems, Eva (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Colección:Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the volume / Eva Brems
  • Face-veiling in the Netherlands : public debates and women's narratives / Annelies Moors
  • Niqabis in Denmark : when politicians ask for a qualitative and quantitative profiling of a very small and elusive sub-culture / Kate Ostergaard, Margit Warburg and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen
  • The Belgian 'burqa ban' confronted with insider realities / Eva Brems, Yaiza Janssens, Kim Lecoyer, Saila Ouald Chaib, Victoria Vandersteen and Jogchum Vrielink
  • France vs. England / Naima Bouteldja
  • Insider perspectives and the human rights debate on face veil bans / Emmanuelle Bribosia and Isabelle Rorive
  • Symptomatic symbolism : banning the face-veil 'as a symbol' / Jogchum Vrielink
  • Bas les masques! unveiling Muslim women on behalf of the protection of public order : reflections on the legal controversies around a novel definition of 'public order' used to ban full-face covering in France / Rim-Sarah Alouane
  • Islamic veil bans : the gender equality justification and empirical evidence / Erica Howard
  • Women's oppression and face veil bans: a feminist assessment / Dolores Morondo Taramundi
  • The return of a persecuting society? : criminalising facial veils in Europe / Maleiha Malik
  • Asserting state sovereignty : the face veil ban in Belgium / Nadia Fadil
  • The performativity of face-veil controversies across Europe / Schirin Amir-Moazami
  • Proscribing unveiling
  • law a chimera and an instrument in the political agenda / Susan S.M. Edwards.