The Politics of the Veil

by Joan Wallach Scott

Book Overview

In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an explosive refutation of this view, one that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691147981
• ISBN13: 9780691147987
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"