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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| The Politics of the Veil canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
book
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scholarly work ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
gender studies
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history ⓘ political science ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| argues |
French secularism is gendered and racialized in practice
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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
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surface form:
United States
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| critiques |
French republican universalism
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assimilationist models of integration ⓘ feminist support for the headscarf ban ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
citizenship
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feminist secularism ⓘ laïcité ⓘ otherness ⓘ republican universalism ⓘ state neutrality ⓘ |
| focusesOnEvent | 2004 French law on religious symbols in schools ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural studies
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feminist theory ⓘ political theory ⓘ sociology of religion ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
hardcover edition
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paperback edition ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| hasReception |
influential in debates on headscarf and veil bans
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widely cited in scholarship on secularism and Islam in Europe ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0691123613 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780691123616 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
French headscarf ban
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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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