The Politics of the Veil

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The Politics of the Veil is a scholarly book by Joan Wallach Scott that critically examines France’s headscarf ban to explore how debates over Muslim women’s veiling reveal deeper tensions around secularism, gender, and national identity.

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instanceOf book
scholarly work
academicDiscipline gender studies
history
political science
religious studies
argues French secularism is gendered and racialized in practice
debates over veiling reveal anxieties about national identity in France
the veil controversy is used to define the boundaries of French citizenship
author Joan Wallach Scott NERFINISHED
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
critiques French republican universalism
assimilationist models of integration
feminist support for the headscarf ban
exploresConcept citizenship
feminist secularism
laïcité
otherness
republican universalism
state neutrality
focusesOnEvent 2004 French law on religious symbols in schools
genre cultural studies
feminist theory
political theory
sociology of religion
hasEdition hardcover edition
paperback edition
hasFormat ebook
print
hasReception influential in debates on headscarf and veil bans
widely cited in scholarship on secularism and Islam in Europe
isbn10 0691123613
isbn13 9780691123616
language English
mainSubject French headscarf ban
Islamic veiling NERFINISHED
Muslim women in France
gender
national identity
secularism
pageCount 208
partOfSeries Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology NERFINISHED
placeOfPublication Princeton, New Jersey NERFINISHED
publicationDate 2007
publisher Princeton University Press NERFINISHED
setIn France NERFINISHED

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