The headscarf debates : conflicts of national belonging / Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korteweg, Anna C., author.

Yurdakul, Gökçe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hijab (Islamic clothing)--Political aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Hijab (Islamic clothing).

Muslim women--Clothing--Political aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Muslim women.

Citizenship--Cross-cultural studies.

Citizenship.

National characteristics--Political aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

National characteristics.

Muslim women--France.

Muslim women--Turkey.

Muslim women--Netherlands.

Muslim women--Germany.

National characteristics--Political aspects.

Muslim women--Clothing.

Germany.

Netherlands.

Turkey.

France.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

All countries promote national narratives that turn historical diversities into imagined commonalities, appealing to shared language, religion, history, or political practice. The Headscarf Debates explores how the headscarf has become a symbol used to reaffirm or transform these stories of belonging. Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdaknl focus on France, Germany, and the Netherlands-countries with significant Muslim-immigrant populations-and Turkey, a secular Muslim state with a persistents legacy of cultural ambivalence. The authors discuss recent cultural and political events and the debates they engender, enlivening the issues with interviews with social activists, and recreating the fervor which erupts near the core of each national identity when threats are perceived and changes are proposed. The authors pay unique attention to how Muslim women speak for themselves, how their actions and statements reverberate throughout national debates. This on-the-ground approach empowers an understanding of the headscarf's role in the production of the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly with respect to our national views on gender, religion, and political value. Ultimately, The Headscarf Debates brilliantly illuminates how belonging and nationhood are imagined and reimagined in an increasingly global world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Feeling at home in the nation

Rejecting the headscarf in France

Reinventing the headscarf in Turkey

Tolerating the headscarf in the Netherlands

Negotiating the headscarf in Germany

Retelling national narratives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804776844

0804776849

9780804776851

0804776857

OCLC:

865536963