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050 00 $aBL2747.8$b.S358 2012
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100 1 $aSelby, Jennifer A.
245 10 $aQuestioning French secularism :$bgender politics and Islam in a Parisian suburb /$cJennifer A. Selby.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c©2012.
300 $axiii, 241 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aContemporary anthropology of religion
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of Muslim women's rights. Selby analyzes public discourses on secularism in France to consider how Islam becomes subsumed under the fetishized headscarf, how women's bodies come to represent collective identities, and how the activism and engagement of suburban Muslim women with secular politics is ignored"--Provided by publisher.
520 $a"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.
505 0 $aSetting 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
650 0 $aSecularism$zFrance.
650 0 $aMuslim women$zFrance.
830 0 $aContemporary anthropology of religion.