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Questioning French secularism : gender politics and Islam in a Parisian suburb / Jennifer A. Selby

Selby, Jennifer A.,i1977- [Verfasser]

First edition

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

xiii, 241 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm

Contemporary anthropology of religion

Includes bibliographical references and index

Setting the Scene: Place and Method -- "Hardly Paradise": From Shantytown to Housing Projects -- The Shifting Boundaries of Laïcité -- Feminism, Femininity, and Laïcite -- Marriage Partner Preference -- On being a Visibly Religious Muslim Woman : Piety and Polity in France

0-230-12101-2 ; 978-0-230-12101-0

LB 44185 LC 29185 MG 34270

 

Frankreich  Säkularisierung  Muslimin, Motiv  Migration  Religionsethnologie 

 

"Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Parisian suburb, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of Muslim women1s rights. Jennifer Selby argues that the complex fetishization of headscarves in public, governmental and feminist French discourses positions publicly-visible religious women in ways that obscure their engagement with laïcité (French secularism )."--Provided by publisher