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Posts Tagged ‘Burqa’
April 12th, 2011
“Burqa Ban” takes effect in France
posted by Grace YukichOn April 11th, the hotly debated “burqa ban” went into effect in France.
October 12th, 2010
“Niqabitches” take on Paris
posted by Aaron WeinsteinFrench students protest burka ban by hiding face, showing legs.
July 20th, 2010
Joan Wallach Scott on notions of French citizenship
posted by Amanda KaplanAt Big Think, Joan Wallach Scott discusses French citizenship and laïcité in light of the current controversy over the burqa.
July 14th, 2010
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
posted by David Kyuman Kim
At a March 2010 conference, “Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular” (sponsored by Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict), I had the great fortune to speak on a panel with groundbreaking cultural historian and gender theorist Joan Wallach Scott, the Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. The conference was the fourth and final meeting of ASU’s Ford Foundation-funded project on “Public Religion, the Secular, and Democracy.” In 2010-2011, Scott will lead the year-long seminar “Secularism” at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Science. Scott is the author of numerous influential essays and books, including, most recently, the timely and highly praised The Politics of the Veil. At the conclusion of the ASU conference, Scott and I met for the following wide-ranging conversation . . .
July 13th, 2010
Veiled threats?
posted by Ruth BraunsteinAt the New York Times philosophy forum, The Stone, Martha Nussbaum asks how philosophical and legal scholarship can help us understand recent controversies concerning the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves and burqas in public.
July 13th, 2010
France wrestles with upcoming vote to ban burqa
posted by Aaron WeinsteinThe popular push to ban the burqa in France lacks clear legality, reports The Associated Press.
July 6th, 2010
Not just a bill to support women’s rights or secular values
posted by Amanda KaplanOn July 13, French parliament will vote on a bill to ban burqa-style veils in the name of gender equality and secular values. More than advocating for women’s rights and a “state-sanctioned Islam that respects the secular state,” this particular version of the bill also implicates “husbands and fathers who impose such veils on female family members.”
June 25th, 2010
Spain moves to ban burqa
posted by Aaron WeinsteinIn the most recent European attempt to prevent radical Islam’s spread, Spain’s Senate voted this past Wednesday in favor of prohibiting Muslim women from donning the burqa—the traditional Islamic veil which covers a woman’s entire body except her eyes. New York Times columnist Raphael Minder suggests that the country’s sudden—and, some would say, unexpected—decision to follow fellow EU members like France and Belgium, was precipitated by upcoming regional elections in Catalonia later this year, in which immigration and Islam are two politically charged and contested issues.
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