Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb

by Jennifer A. Selby

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230121012
• ISBN13: 9780230121010
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"