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Jennifer Selby Questioning French Secularism

Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb

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Palgrave Macmillan US

2016

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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women's rights. Selby argues that the complex "fetishization" of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse positions publicly-visible Muslim women in ways that obscure their engagement with laicite (French secularism).

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