Questioning French secularism
gender politics and Islam in a Parisian suburb
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Author
Publication
2012 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780230121010
- ISBN-100230121012
- Library of Congress Control Number2012002203
- OCLC Control Number738335483
- Better World Books9780230121010
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25190123M
Classifications
- DDC305.420944/36
- LCCBL2747.8 .S358 2012
- LCCHM545GN301-GN674B65H
Description
"Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of Muslim women's rights. Selby analyzes public discourses on secularism in France to consider how Islam becomes subsumed under the fetishized headscarf, how women's bodies come to represent collective identities, and how the activism and engagement of suburban Muslim women with secular politics is ignored"-- "Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Parisian suburb, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of Muslim women¹s rights. Jennifer Selby argues that the complex fetishization of headscarves in public, governmental and feminist French discourses positions publicly-visible religious women in ways that obscure their engagement with laïcité (French secularism )."--
Subjects
Series Statement
- Contemporary anthropology of religion series
Other Editions
- Questioning French secularism
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