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Refugee women : beyond gender versus culture / Leah Bassel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bassel, Leah, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 71.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 71
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslim women.
- Women refugees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question - does accommodating Islam violate women's rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion ne
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives and tools
- pt. 2. Politics within
- pt. 3. Politics in between.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-85055-4
- 1-280-68233-7
- 9786613659279
- 0-203-83459-3
- 1-136-85056-2
- 9780203834596
- OCLC:
- 804663067
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