Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
Contents
Introduction: why France? -- Contextualizing the debate. A very modern tradition: background to the "new veiling" -- The "cornerstone of the republic": secularism and the regulation of religion -- French Muslims: between "integration" and "Muslimism" -- A fifteen-year saga. 1989: three little girls and a great big "psychodrama" -- 1990-1995: from psychodrama to saga -- 1995-2004 and beyond: how ostentatiousness became conspicuous -- Feminists caught in the contradictions. The politics of hijabization -- Co-optations and instrumentalizations -- Feminist confusions and confrontations -- Conclusion: French lessons for the West? -- Appendix: Chronology.
