2014
DOI: 10.1177/0008429814526150
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Un/veiling Women’s Bodies

Abstract: Heated discussion in the media, costly and laborious government commissions, and restrictive legal recommendations in France and Québec, Canada, have recently focused on the undesirability of face-covering veils (burqas and niqabs) in the public sphere. This article charts how these sites have, at the same time, concretized a contrasting idealized presentation of a desirable secular female body. This examination is grounded in recent Secularism Studies scholarship that argues that, like forms of religiosity, s… Show more

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“…Scott's work encouraged many scholars to explore the normative sexular climate of the West, and we now see a body of literature on 'the study of sexularism' coming into being (e.g. Verkaaik and Spronk 2011;Schuh, Burchardt, and Wohlrab-Sahr 2012;Cady and Fessenden 2013;Selby 2014;Amir-Moazami 2016).…”
Section: Sex In the Study Of Religion And The Secularmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Scott's work encouraged many scholars to explore the normative sexular climate of the West, and we now see a body of literature on 'the study of sexularism' coming into being (e.g. Verkaaik and Spronk 2011;Schuh, Burchardt, and Wohlrab-Sahr 2012;Cady and Fessenden 2013;Selby 2014;Amir-Moazami 2016).…”
Section: Sex In the Study Of Religion And The Secularmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En 2013, le gouvernement du Parti Québécois de Pauline Marois a créé une direction en matière d'identité et de laïcité au sein du Secrétariat aux institutions démocratiques et à la participation citoyenne, instance disparue dès la défaite du Parti québécois en 2014. Cela dit, bien que la portée juridique de la laïcité narrative ait échoué après plusieurs tentatives (en effet, le défunt projet de loi 60, ou le projet de loi 94 14 du Parti libéral se sont vus tour à tour mis à l'écart par un changement de gouvernement), les projets de loi, selon plusieurs analystes, visaient à contrôler le corps des femmes musulmanes en imposant son dévoilement (Bilge, 2010 ;Selby, 2014 ;Tahon, 2014).…”
Section: Narration Laïque Nationaliste Sexuelleunclassified
“…It does not focus on exploring and revealing particular secular norms that instruct, discipline, and confine religious bodies in current secular societies (e.g. Göle 2010;Fadil 2011;Selby 2014;Fernando 2014;AmirMoazami 2016) but instead directly looks at the secular body itself.…”
Section: A Secular Bodymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With material forms of the secular, I mean places some consider secular (Gökariksel 2009); particular styles of dressing, regardless of what the people dressing this way think themselves (Fadil 2011;Selby 2014); objects, such as condoms, associated with secular health-care organizations (Bartelink 2016); medicines, assumed to be part of secular, rational society (Hirschkind 2011); food some associate with being secular, e.g. Chelsea Woppers ("chocolate-like, fudge-like strips of goodness") (Engelke 2015a: 77); particular authorized forms of behavior, including a secular dealing with the coffin (Engelke 2015b) or, as I will argue later, specific practices of sex (see also Engelke 2015a).…”
Section: A Secular Bodymentioning
confidence: 99%