Questioning French Secularism : Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb
ISBN: 9781137011329
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Social Science;

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).

Jennifer A. Selby is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Memorial University, Canada. She studies Islam in the West, with a focus on secularism and gender politics in contemporary France and Canada.

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