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

• Autore: Rosenberger Sieglinde
• Pubblicazione: 2012; London : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1 ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.7; 305.6/97576; 305.697576
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: Political Science; International Relations
• Altri autori: RosenbergerSieglinde <1957-> SauerBirgit
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics, religion and gender
• ISBN: 1-136-58931-7; 1-136-58932-5; 0-203-18105-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457485203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics