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The hijab is arguably the most discussed and controversial item of women's clothing today. It has become the primary global symbol of female Muslim identity for Muslims and non-Muslims alike and is the focus of much debate in the confrontation between Islam and the West. Nowhere has this debate been more acute or complex than in France. In Hijab and the Republic, Bronwyn Winter provides a riveting account of the controversial 2004 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools. While much has been written on the subject, Winter offers a unique feminist perspective, carefully delineating its political and cultural aspects. Drawing on both scholarly literature and popular commentary, she examines the headscarf debate from its inception in 1989 through fluctuations in its intensity over the 1990s to its surging significance in the wake of 9 / 11 and the consequent shift in global politics.
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Women
engaged
in
“bargaining
with
patriarchy,”
to
recall
Kandiyoti’s
famous
term
(Kandiyoti
1991),
use
a
number
of
strategies
that
may
combine
elements
that
are
demonstrably
feminist
with
others
that
are
demonstra-
bly
not,
or
may
even
be
antifeminist.
A
hijab
does
not
in
itself
transform
the
wearer
into
a
feminist
or
an
antifeminist,
no
more
than
it
automatically
makes
her
either
empowered
or
disempowered.
In
any
case,
the
fundamental
question
with
which
I
am
concerned
here
is
less
the
diverse
individual
moti-
vations
of
hijab
wearers
than
the
wider
political
manipulation
of
hijabization
by
a
range
of
individual,
collective,
institutional,
and
civil
society
actors.
Table of contents
- Winter
- Winter-front
- Winter Final