Hijab & the republic [electronic resource] : uncovering the French headscarf debate / Bronwyn Winter.
Winter, Bronwyn, 1955-
2008
GT2112 .W56 2008eb
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Title Hijab & the republic [electronic resource] : uncovering the French headscarf debate / Bronwyn Winter.
Author Winter, Bronwyn, 1955-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 081563174X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815631996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815631995 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815631743
9780815651321 (e-book)
Imprint Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xii, 419 p.
Call Number GT2112 .W56 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 391.4/30944
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series Gender and globalization
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Introduction : why France?
pt. 1. 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"
pt. 2. 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
pt. 3. 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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