The politics of the veil / Joan Wallach Scott.

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Scott, Joan Wallach [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Public square (Princeton, N.J.)Publication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2007.Description: xii, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:

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9780691125435 (hbk.)
9780691147987 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

305.6970944

Contents:

Headscarf controversies -- Racism -- Secularism -- Individualism -- Sexuality.

Summary: "In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an explosive refutation of this view. Joan Wallach Scott, the renowned pioneer of gender studies, argues that the law is symptomatic of France's failure to accept its former colonial subjects as full citizens. She examines the long history of racism behind the law as well as the ideological barriers thrown up against Muslim assimilation. Finally, she shows how the insistence on homogeneity is no longer feasible fro France - or the West in general - and how it creates the very "clash of civilizations" said to be at the root of these tensions."-- Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Headscarf controversies -- Racism -- Secularism -- Individualism -- Sexuality.

"In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an explosive refutation of this view.
Joan Wallach Scott, the renowned pioneer of gender studies, argues that the law is symptomatic of France's failure to accept its former colonial subjects as full citizens. She examines the long history of racism behind the law as well as the ideological barriers thrown up against Muslim assimilation. Finally, she shows how the insistence on homogeneity is no longer feasible fro France - or the West in general - and how it creates the very "clash of civilizations" said to be at the root of these tensions."-- Publisher's description.