Muslims and Women in Britain and France

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20045883
AutoresDanièle Joly (University of Warwick), Khursheed Wadia (University of Warwick)
Ano2017
Páginas47-84
Data de publicação2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoMuslim Women and Power (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-48062-0_3
OpenAlexW2606842160
ISBN9781137480620
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas35

This chapter delineates the societal and institutional context surrounding the participation of women from Muslim communities. Two aspects influence their action in the public domain: that of Islam and Muslims and their relation with majority society women’s movements and politics. First, the evolution of policies and conceptualisation of Muslim populations in their interaction with majority societies are examined, broadly in the context of British multiculturalism and of French laïcité. Islam and ‘Muslim’ emerged as a primary identification in the 1990s, in Britain with the War on Terror; in France through controversies about women’s Islamic dress. Second, this chapter considers the relationship between Muslim women and mainstream British and French women’s movements, exploring to what extent the issues they raise are integrated within women’s movement politics and feminist demands made of the state to improve women’s lives and how this relationship influences their political and civic action

Islam · Mainstream · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development