Niqabis in Denmark: when politicians ask for a qualitative and quantitative profile of a very small and elusive subculture

Østergaard, Kate; Warburg, Margit; Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern

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“…They typically see it as a fundamental part of their identity, culture, or religion. 31 Hence, if the choice to wear the niqab is a PFC, a law against doing so would be invasive. Under conditions of no law, it would be possible to make the PFC, when the law is introduced it is no longer possible.…”

Section: Burqa Bans As Invasive Lawsmentioning

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Opposing Laws with Religious Reasons

Kugelberg¹

2020

Journal of Social Philosophy

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Section: Burqa Bans As Invasive Lawsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opposing Laws with Religious Reasons

Kugelberg¹

2020

Journal of Social Philosophy

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Between Islamophobia and Post-Feminist Agency: Intersectional Trouble in the European Face-Veil Bans

Taramundi¹

2015

Feminist Review

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Women's equality claims have occupied the forefront of the European debate on face-veil bans; most claims have been denounced as mere manipulation for anti-Islamic and/or anti-immigrant political agendas, and the dilemma between anti-sexist and anti-racist struggles has been argued to be false. This article examines how opportunistic manipulation of gender equality claims and the 'ethnicisation' of sexism have been assessed and confronted in the scholarly debate opposing the bans, as well as the impact that this debate has had on women's equality claims and the intersectionality issue. I argue that the women's oppression argument has not been fully considered, because it would have disrupted the anti-racist struggle due to unresolved problems with understanding intersectionality. keywords face-veil bans; equality; non-discrimination; intersectionality; Islamophobia; feminist theory feminist review 110 2015 (55-67) © 2015 Feminist Review. 0141-7789/15 www.feminist-review.com feminist review 110 2015 between Islamophobia and post-feminist agency

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Women’s Sartorial Agency

Piela

2023

The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women

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After September 11, the world witnessed a rising tide of Islamophobia generally in the West, but more acutely felt in the United States, which had been directly attacked. This fear and hatred of Islam went into overdrive during the presidency of Donald Trump, with his racial and religious slurs directed at Muslims. This section focuses on how Islamophobes frequently target Muslim women in ḥijāb and play up their assumed “victimhood” in order to set up a contrast to “liberated” non-Muslim Western women, creating a “clash of civilizations” discourse that pits a reified “Muslim world” against a reified “West.” The genealogy of this narrative is insightfully explored in this section, revealing its deep historical roots within Orientalism, a phenomenon that has caricatured and demonized the Muslim East, not least through its fetishization of Muslim women and their attire. In the more recent past and continuing into the contemporary period, the clash of civilizations discourse has been deployed to stage the “War on Terror,” which, at least in part, is being waged on the bodies of Muslim women.

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Niqabis in Denmark: when politicians ask for a qualitative and quantitative profile of a very small and elusive subculture

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Opposing Laws with Religious Reasons

Opposing Laws with Religious Reasons

Between Islamophobia and Post-Feminist Agency: Intersectional Trouble in the European Face-Veil Bans

Women’s Sartorial Agency

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