Politics, Religion and Gender: Framing and Regulating the Veil - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415705134 ISBN 13: 9780415705134

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

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 defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, migration, and multiculturalism.

Seeking also to establish why the issue has become part of the disciplinary practices of some European countries but not of others, this work brings together an important collection of interpretative research regarding the current debates on the veil in Europe, offering an interdisciplinary scope and European-wide setting. Brought together through a common research methodology, the contributors focus on the different religious, political and cultural meanings of the veiling issue across eight countries and develop a comparative explanation of veiling regimes.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion & politics, gender studies and multiculturalism.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sieglinde Rosenberger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests focuse on the governance of religious pluralism, migration and integration, identities and gender relations.

Birgit Sauer is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research fields include democracy and difference, critical governance studies, gender in political institution, state theory, gender and globalization, comparative gender policies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415705134
• ISBN 13: 9780415705134
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Redattore: Rosenberger Sieglinde
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania