Questioning French secularism: gender politics and Islam in a Parisian suburb

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book analyzes public discourses on secularism in France to consider how Islam becomes subsumed under the fetishized headscarf, how women's bodies come to represent collective identities, and how the activism and engagement of suburban Muslim women with secular politics is ignored. JENNIFER A. SELBYAssistant Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. INDICE: PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: PLACE AND METHOD - Gender Politics and Religion in Contemporary France - Fieldwork Context: Working and Living in Petit Nanterre - Methodological Considerations: On Writing about Muslim Women - PART II: 'HARDLY PARADISE': FROM SHANTYTOWN TO HOUSING PROJECT - Migration to the Banlieues of Paris - Religious Geography - Gender Politics and Sexual Segregation - Divisions - Community-Based Organizations - 2005 Suburban Riots - PART III: THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF LAICITE - Secularism: General Remarks - Secularism: The French Case - Commissioned Secularism in Contemporary France - Secularism: The Pork Affair in Petit Nanterre - PART IV: FEMINISM, FEMININITY, AND LAICITE - Femmes Solidaires ('Women in Solidarity') - French Femininity: Stereotypes - Gossip - PART V: MARRIAGE-PARTNER PREFERENCE AND MIGRATION TO PETITNANTERRE - Journeys to Petit Nanterre - Implications for 'Disfavored' Women -Second-Generation Women Respond - Implications - PART VI: ON BEING A VISIBLY RELIGIOUS WOMAN IN FRANCE - Continued French Colonialism? - Feminist Critiquesand Practicing Religious Women - General Conclusion -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-12101-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 09/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés