The Headscarf and Emancipation in the Netherlands
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 12258759 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Berrin Koyuncu (0000-0003-2939-2127, Hacettepe University, autor correspondente), Berrin Koyuncu Lorasdaği (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Beytepe 06800 Ankara, Turkey) |
| Ano | 2009 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 328-334 |
| Data de publicação | 2009-07-23 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Feminism & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0959-3535 • E-ISSN: 1461-7161 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959353509105623 |
| OpenAlex | W2096914299 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 5 |
| Referências citadas | 4 |
In this article, I draw on qualitative research on headscarf wearing among Dutch students of Turkish origin in Amsterdam. The aim was to give voice to Muslim girls and to critically revisit the emancipation discourse with regard to the headscarf issue in the Netherlands after the murder of the film director Theo van Gogh in 2004. My main argument is that the issue of the Muslim headscarf in the Dutch context – in which there is a growing tension between the Muslims and the non-Muslims1 – has been used to perpetuate prejudices and stereotypes about Muslim women and this issue, as a ‘cultural control’. These prejudices and stereotypes shape the discussions around headscarves in Holland, and can be seen strikingly in the views of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian refugee who is a former member of the Dutch Parliament and the author of the script of the sensationalist 2004 film Submission, and Cisca Dresselhuys, the ex-editor-in-chief of the leading Dutch feminist magazine Opzij. Both contend that the headscarf is a symbol of Muslim women’s oppression and that principles of Islam and women’s emancipation are incompatible (Dresselhuys, 2001; Hirsi Ali, 2006). They offer a single (universal) path for the emancipation of Muslim women through removing their headscarves. I hope that by capturing the voices of Muslim women on the sources of their ‘oppression’, this research article will make a contribution to feminist and liberation psychology that focus on the ‘causes of oppression laying in the structures and ideologies that create discrimination and prejudice as the manifestations of oppression’ (Martin-Baro, 1994 cited in Moane, 2003). This research argues that the forced removal of the headscarf is an imposition of ‘universal emancipation’ that further deepens social and cultural inequalities and causes these women’s further oppression rather than their emancipation
Context (archaeology · Emancipation · Ideology · Islam · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Refugee · Sociology · Theology · Cultural Identity and Representation · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Citações por ano | 0,31 |
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| Intervalo de citações | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Altamente citado | Não |