Hijab & the republic : uncovering the French headscarf debate / Bronwyn Winter.
Winter, Bronwyn, 1955-
2008
GT2112 .W56 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Hijab & the republic : uncovering the French headscarf debate / Bronwyn Winter.
Author Winter, Bronwyn, 1955-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780815631996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815631995 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815631743 (alk. paper)
081563174X (alk. paper)
Imprint Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xii, 419 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number GT2112 .W56 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 391.4/30944
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383) and index.
Series Gender and globalization.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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