Excluding Muslim Women

From Hijab to Niqab, from School to Public Space

Bibliographic Data

ID2428181
AuthorsSylvie Tissot (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume23
Issue1
Pages39-46
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/08992363-2010-014
OpenAlexW2317870455
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Six years after banning pupils from wearing a hijab in public high schools, in July 2010, French deputies passed a law that forbids women from wearing the "integral veil" (or niqab, an outfit hiding the entire face except the eyes) in public spaces. This article examines why such a repressive policy toward Muslim women was unanimously embraced by the conservative majority and some left-wing leaders with so little protest. It aims at underscoring the specific phenomena that, on the basis of a new "orientalism," contribute in France to institutionalizing a category of people on the basis of race and gender

Orientalism · Political science · Public space · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy · Religious studies

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