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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and globalizationPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 419 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780815651321
  • 0815651325
Report number: 2008038003Other title:
  • Hijab and the republic
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hijab & the republic.DDC classification:
  • 391.4/30944 22
LOC classification:
  • GT2112 .W56 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.84
  • 6,23
  • 71.33
  • 71.52
  • LB 46185
  • 391.430944
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Contents:
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.
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Summary: A riveting account of the controversial 2004 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.

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.

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

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