Politics, Religion and Gender : Framing and Regulating the Veil

Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defen...

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Other Authors: Rosenberger, Sieglinde (Editor), Sauer, Birgit (Editor)
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Published: 2012
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