Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics And Islam In A Parisian Suburb (contemporary Anthropology Of Religion)
by Jennifer Selby /
2016 / English / PDF
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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).
