The headscarf debates : conflicts of national belonging / Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul.
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TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780804791168
- 0804791163
- Hijab (Islamic clothing) -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
- Muslim women -- Clothing -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
- Citizenship -- Cross-cultural studies
- National characteristics -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
- Ḥijāb -- Aspect politique -- Études transculturelles
- Musulmanes -- Costume -- Aspect politique -- Études transculturelles
- Caractéristiques nationales -- Aspect politique -- Études transculturelles
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming
- Citizenship
- National characteristics -- Political aspects
- Hoofdbedekking
- Sluiers
- Religion
- Philosophy & Religion
- Islam
- 391.4/3082091767 23
- BP190.5.H44 K67 2014eb
- 11.84
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-236) and index.
Feeling at home in the nation -- Rejecting the headscarf in France -- Reinventing the headscarf in Turkey -- Tolerating the headscarf in the Netherlands -- Negotiating the headscarf in Germany -- Retelling national narratives.
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The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as ""integration-refusers."" In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular state. A niqab-wearing Muslim woman was denied French citizenship for not conforming to national values. And in the Netherlands, Muslim women responded to the hatred of popular ultra-right politicians with public appeals that mixed headscarves with in-your-face humor. In a surprising way, the headscarf-a g.
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