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European countries
European headscarf debates
European national narratives
European values
Feminist politics
gender equality
gender equality policy
Headscarf Ban
Headscarf Debates
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Im Mig Rants
Islamic Religious Community
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legal regulation of dress
legal regulations
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multicultural citizenship
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Munit Ies
Muslim veil
Muslim Women's Participation
Muslim Women’s Participation
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Non-regulatory Approach
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Polit Ical Action
Polit Ical Culture
Polit Ical Debate
Polit Ical Oppor Tun Ities
politicization
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prohibitive regulations
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public schools
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religious pluralism
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State Church Relations
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415561488
  • Weight: 650g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Oct 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, migration, and multiculturalism.

Seeking also to establish why the issue has become part of the disciplinary practices of some European countries but not of others, this work brings together an important collection of interpretative research regarding the current debates on the veil in Europe, offering an interdisciplinary scope and European-wide setting. Brought together through a common research methodology, the contributors focus on the different religious, political and cultural meanings of the veiling issue across eight countries and develop a comparative explanation of veiling regimes.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion & politics, gender studies and multiculturalism.

About
Sieglinde Rosenberger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests focuse on the governance of religious pluralism, migration and integration, identities and gender relations. Birgit Sauer is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research fields include democracy and difference, critical governance studies, gender in political institution, state theory, gender and globalization, comparative gender policies.