Un-Veiling Dichotomies: European Secularism and Women's Veiling

In: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies

Abstract

Introduction -- Part1. Law, power, and the Muslim female dressed body -- Chapter1. Islamic law and legal sources -- Chapter2. The veil and Islamic law -- Chapter3. The Veil and Muslim cultures -- Chapter4. Imagining nations, imagining women: the regulation of female clothes in the era of nations -- Chapter5. Regulating clothes, regulating subjectivities -- Chapter6. From multiplicity to a monolithic homogeneity: the veil as symbol of a 'clash of civilizations' -- Part2. The headscarf regulation: reconfiguring religious practices in the secular Europe -- Chapter7. (Un)masking the legal subject -- Chapter8. The secular/Christian/'humane' subject of law -- Chapter9. Reading the European Court of Human Rights legal decisions over the practice of veiling -- Chapter10. Switzerland and state neutrality -- Chapter11. Burkinis, face veils and hijab: laicite in France -- Chapter12. 'Is Multiculturalism bad for women?: the Begum case in the UK -- Chapter13. Reconfiguring religion and religious practices in the secular space through law -- Part 3. Revealing paradoxes: Muslim women in secular contemporary Europe -- Chapter14. On Freedom and Agency: an East/West Perspective -- Chapter15. Habit, Habitus, and habits -- Chapter16. Representing the un-representable: on symbology, secularism and the law -- Chapter17. 'Is secularism bad for women? -- Conclusions.