Questioning French Secularism

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Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb, Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

ISBN: 1349585408
ISBN 13: 9781349585403
Autor: Selby, Jennifer
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 247 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2016
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

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).

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Beschreibung

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book 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.

Autorenporträt

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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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com

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