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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818398703321

Autore

Winter Bronwyn <1955->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, N.Y. : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-8156-5132-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 419 pages)

Collana

Gender and globalization

Classificazione

11.84

6,23

71.33

71.52

LB 46185

391.430944

Disciplina

391.4/30944

Soggetti

Hijab (Islamic clothing) - France

Veils - Social aspects - France

Muslim women - Clothing - France

Clothing and dress - Religious aspects - Islam

Clothing and dress - Political aspects - France

Islam and secularism - France

France Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A riveting account of the controversial 2004 French law to ban Islamic



headscarves and other religious signs from public schools.