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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 39–46.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Sylvie Tissot Six years after banning pupils from wearing a hijab in public high schools, in July 2010, French deputies passed a law that forbids women from wearing the “integral veil” (or niqab , an outfit hiding the entire face except the eyes) in public spaces. This article examines why...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
... inscription and the other by Sylvie Tissot on the recent French ban of the niqab (the “integral” veil) and the banishment from public space that this legislation entails for certain categories of people. Dominique Malaquais in her photo...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 447–456.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... In the media and the popular sphere it is reduced to the lexicon of sectarianism (Sunni, Shia, Alawi), religiously inspired violence (jihad, shahid [martyr]), and female subjugation (niqab, hijab). Complex traditions like the sharia are cartoonishly misrepresented, and the region is generally made to serve...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 487–505.
Published: 01 September 2010
... 2005 continued in Britain with former home secretary Jack Straw’s call to women to remove their niqabs in 2006; in France, the July 2008 case of 11. Jytte Klausen, The Cartoons That Shook the World (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009). 12. By contrast, see Cécile Laborde’s...