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Hijab & the republic uncovering the French headscarf debate
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Title
Hijab & the republic [electronic resource] : uncovering the French headscarf debate / Bronwyn Winter.
ISBN
0815651325
9780815651321
081563174X (cloth : alk. paper)
0815631995 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815631743 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815631996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 419 p. )
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383) and index.
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.
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