Un-veiling dichotomies : European secularism and women's veiling / Giorgia Baldi.
Baldi, Giorgia.
2021
BP190.5.S35
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Title
Un-veiling dichotomies : European secularism and women's veiling / Giorgia Baldi.
Author
Baldi, Giorgia.
ISBN
9783030792978 (electronic bk.)
3030792978 (electronic bk.)
303079296X
9783030792961
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79297-8
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-79297-8 doi
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BP190.5.S35
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.2/8
Summary
This book analyzes the implication of secular/liberal values in Western and human rights law and its impact on Muslim women. It offers an innovative reading of the tension between the religious and secular spheres. The author does not view the two as binary opposites. Rather, she believes they are twin categories that define specific forms of lives as well as a specific notion of womanhood. This divergence from the usual dichotomy opens the doors for a reinterpretation of secularism in contemporary Europe. This method also helps readers to view the study of religion vs. secularism in a new light. It allows for a better understanding of the challenges that contemporary Europe now faces regarding the accommodation of different religious identities. For instance, one entire section of the book concerns the practice of veiling and explores the contentious headscarf debate. It features case studies from Switzerland, France, and the UK. In addition, the analysis combines a wide range of disciplines and employs an integrated, comparative, and inter-disciplinary approach. The author successfully brings together arguments from different fields with a comparative legal and political analysis of Western and Islamic law and politics. This innovative study appeals to students and researchers while offering an important contribution to the debate over the role of religion in contemporary secular Europe and its impact on womens rights and gender equality.
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Series
Boundaries of religious freedom.
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Introduction
Part1. Law, power, and the Muslim female dressed body
Chapter1. Islamic law and legal sources
Chapter2. The veil and Islamic law
Chapter3. The Veil and Muslim cultures
Chapter4. Imagining nations, imagining women: the regulation of female clothes in the era of nations
Chapter5. Regulating clothes, regulating subjectivities
Chapter6. From multiplicity to a monolithic homogeneity: the veil as symbol of a clash of civilizations
Part2. The headscarf regulation: reconfiguring religious practices in the secular Europe
Chapter7. (Un)masking the legal subject
Chapter8. The secular/Christian/humane subject of law
Chapter9. Reading the European Court of Human Rights legal decisions over the practice of veiling
Chapter10. Switzerland and state neutrality
Chapter11. Burkinis, face veils and hijab: laicite in France
Chapter12. Is Multiculturalism bad for women?: the Begum case in the UK
Chapter13. Reconfiguring religion and religious practices in the secular space through law
Part 3. Revealing paradoxes: Muslim women in secular contemporary Europe
Chapter14. On Freedom and Agency: an East/West Perspective
Chapter15. Habit, Habitus, and habits
Chapter16. Representing the un-representable: on symbology, secularism and the law
Chapter17. Is secularism bad for women?
Conclusions.

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