Joan Wallach Scott

The Politics of the Veil

Buch

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, one that bears important implications for us all. The Politics of the Veil calls for a new vision of community where common ground is found amid our differences, and where the embracing of diversity--not its suppression-… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-691-14798-7
EAN: 9780691147987
Produktnummer: 7745862
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.4 cm 270 g
Gewicht: 270
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism and Gender and the Politics of History.