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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457485203321

Autore

Rosenberger Sieglinde

Titolo

Politics, religion and gender : framing and regulating the veil / / edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2012

London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

9781136589317

1136589317

9781136589324

1136589325

9780203181058

0203181050

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in religion and politics

Classificazione

POL000000POL011000LAW119000

Altri autori (Persone)

RosenbergerSieglinde <1957->

SauerBirgit

Disciplina

261.7

305.6/97576

305.697576

Soggetti

Clothing and dress - Law and legislation - Europe

Muslim women - Clothing - Government policy - Europe

Muslim women - Clothing - Political aspects - Europe

Religion and politics - Europe

Veils - Political aspects - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Politics, Religion and Gender; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Framing and regulating the veil: an introduction: Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer; Part I: Frames and framing; 1. Veiled debates: gender and gender equality in European national narratives: Rikke Andreassen and Doutje Lettinga; 2. Thinking through secularism: debates on the Muslim veil in Europe: Eirini Avramopoulou, Gül Çorbacıoğlu and Maria Eleonora Sanna

3. Negotiating belonging: or how a differentiated citizenship is



legitimized in European headscarf debates: Nora Gresch, Petra Rostock and Sevgi Kılıç4. Discursive Europeanization? Negotiating Europe in headscarf debates: İlker Ataç, Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer; Part II: Regulations and actors; 5. Legal regulations: responses to the Muslim headscarf in Europe: Sabine Berghahn; 6. Regulating religious symbols in public schools: the legal status of the Islamic headscarf in Bulgaria: Kristen Ghodsee

7. The limits of populism: accommodative headscarf policies in Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands: Leila Hadj-Abdou,Sieglinde Rosenberger, Sawitri Saharso and Birte Siim8. In the name of laïcité and neutrality: prohibitive regulations of the veil in France, Germany, and Turkey: Sabine Berghahn, Gül Çorbacıoğlu, Petra Rostock and Maria Eleonora Sanna; 9. Non-regulation: opportunity for freedom of religion or sedimentation of existing power structures?: Rikke Andreassen, Eirini Avramopoulou, Nora Gresch, Sevgi Kılıç and Birgit Sauer

10. Muslim women's participation in the veil controversy: Austria and the UK compared: Leila Hadj-Abdou and Linda WoodheadConclusion: the veil as a case of value diversity and European values: Sawitri Saharso; Appendix 1: list of cited documents; Appendix 2: list of major frames and subframes of the VEIL project's frame analysis; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, mi