Cloth on her Head, Constitution in Hand: Germany’s Headscarf Debates and the Cultural Politics of Difference Journal Article uri icon

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abstract

  • As the current debates about the headscarf in Germany and France; demonstrate, “Islamic” veils and headscarves garner attention for; minority women in Europe to an unparalleled degree.2 For centuries,; Islamic veils and headscarves have served as powerful symbols in; Orientalist discourse, functioning as markers of the Oriental woman’s; supposed eroticism as well as convenient tropes for philosophers.3; Recent kidnappers’ demands in Iraq that France lift its headscarf ban; demonstrate the complex appropriations of Muslim women for fundamentalist; discourses as well.

publication date

  • September 1, 2004

has restriction

  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • September 30, 2013 2:40 AM

Full Author List

  • Weber B

author count

  • 1

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1045-0300

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1558-5441

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 33

end page

  • 64

volume

  • 22

issue

  • 3