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Hijab & the republic : uncovering the French headscarf debate / Bronwyn Winter.
LIBRA GT2112 .W56 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winter, Bronwyn, 1955-
- Series:
- Gender and globalization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hijab (Islamic clothing)--France.
- Hijab (Islamic clothing).
- Veils--Social aspects--France.
- Veils.
- Muslim women--Clothing--France.
- Muslim women.
- Clothing and dress--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing and dress--Political aspects--France.
- Islam and secularism--France.
- Islam and secularism.
- Muslim women--Clothing.
- Veils--Social aspects.
- France--Race relations.
- France.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 419 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Hijab and the republic
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction: why France?
- 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"
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815631743
- 081563174X
- 9780815631996
- 0815631995
- OCLC:
- 225870866
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