The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging

by Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul

Book Overview

The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular state. A niqab-wearing Muslim woman was denied French citizenship for not conforming to national values. And in the Netherlands, Muslim women responded to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804776857
• ISBN13: 9780804776851
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"