Why the French don't like headscarves : Islam, the State, and public space

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Why the French don't like headscarves : Islam, the State, and public space

John R. Bowen

Princeton University Press, c2007

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Bibliography: p. [275]-282

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The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves explains why headscarves on schoolgirls caused such a furor, and why the furor yielded this law. Making sense of the dramatic debate from his perspective as an American anthropologist in France at the time, John Bowen writes about everyday life and public events while also presenting interviews with officials and intellectuals, and analyzing French television programs and other media. Bowen argues that the focus on headscarves came from a century-old sensitivity to the public presence of religion in schools, feared links between public expressions of Islamic identity and radical Islam, and a media-driven frenzy that built support for a headscarf ban during 2003-2004. Although the defense of laicite (secularity) was cited as the law's major justification, politicians, intellectuals, and the media linked the scarves to more concrete social anxieties--about "communalism," political Islam, and violence toward women. Written in engaging, jargon-free prose, Why the French Don't Like Headscarves is the first comprehensive and objective analysis of this subject, in any language, and it speaks to tensions between assimilation and diversity that extend well beyond France's borders.

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Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 Part 1 State and Religion in the Long Run 9 CHAPTER TWO: Remembering Laicite 11 CHAPTER THREE: Regulating Islam 34 Part 2 Publicity and Politics, 1989-2005 63 CHAPTER FOUR: Scarves and Schools 65 CHAPTER FIVE: Moving toward a Law 98 CHAPTER SIX: Repercussions 128 Part 3 Philosophy, Media, Anxiety 153 CHAPTER SEVEN: Communalism 155 CHAPTER EIGHT: Islamism 182 CHAPTER NINE: Sexism 208 CHAPTER TEN: Conclusions 242 Notes 251 Glossary 273 References 275 Index 283

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