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Availability:In StockContributor:Joan Wallach ScottSeries:Public SquarePublish date:2010-08-22Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691147987ISBN-10:691147981UPC:9780691147987Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islamic Studies, Women's Studies, DiscriminationSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCET4M7BYP
The Politics of the Veil
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...
Series: Public Square
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691147987ISBN-10:691147981UPC:9780691147987Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islamic Studies, Women's Studies, DiscriminationSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCET4M7BYP
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.
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