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Hijab & the republic : uncovering the French headscarf debate /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winter, Bronwyn, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Gender and globalization.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why France?
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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.