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Questioning French Secularism

Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb
By:Jennifer Selby
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230121010
eText ISBN:9781137011329
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse positions publicly-visible Muslim women in ways that obscure their engagement with laïcité (French secularism).