Hijab and the republic
Subtitle: uncovering the French headscarf debate
By: Bronwyn Winter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gender and globalization
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780815631743; 9780815631996
Subjects: Hijab (Islamic clothing) -- France; Veils -- Social aspects -- France; Muslim women -- France -- Clothing; Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- France; Islam and secularism -- France; France -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Acronyms; title: Introduction: why France?; title: Contextualizing the debate; title: A very modern tradition: background to the "new veiling"; title: The "cornerstone of the republic": secularism and the regulation of religion; title: French Muslims: between "integration" and "muslimism"; title: A fifteen-year saga; title: 1989: three little girls and a great big "psychodrama"; title: 1990-1995: from psychodrama to saga; title: 1995-2004 and beyond: how ostentatiousness became conspicuous; title: Feminists caught in the contradictions; title: The politics of hijabization; title: Co-optations and instrumentalizations; title: Feminist confusions and confrontations; title: Conclusion: French lessons for the West?; title: Appendix: chronology; title: Glossary; title: References; title: Index.