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The thesis I have written aims to investigate the underlying reasons why France has considered Islam as unassimilable and why it has targeted Muslim women’s bodies to force assimilation. In the first section of the thesis, I examine the colonial relationship between France and Algeria. I conclude that Algeria’s independence from France significantly influenced the negative treatment towards immigrants in postcolonial France. I then study the racist discourse that dominated French politics in the 1980s; and clarify how this has laid the foundation for the first attempt to ban the headscarves in public schools during the 1980s. The final section explores the 2004 ban on conspicuous religious symbols, a ban that significantly targeted the headscarf. I conclude that the prohibition of the headscarf undermined the rights of Muslim women and symbolized France’s inability to accept Islam, since France feared Islam’s visibility weakened a dominant French identity.
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Title
- Unveiled: France's inability to accept Islam
Contributors
- Ahmed, Noura (Author)
- Keahey, Jennifer (Thesis advisor)
- Toth, Stephen (Committee member)
- Behl, Natasha (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
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2017
Subjects
- Islamic studies
- Gender Studies
- history
- Algeria
- Assimilate
- France
- Hijab
- Muslim women
- Postcolonialism
- Hijab (Islamic clothing)--Political aspects--France.
- Hijab (Islamic clothing)
- Muslim women--Clothing--France--Social conditions.
- Muslim women
- Muslim women--Algeria--Social conditions.
- Muslim women
- Muslim women--France--Social conditions.
- Muslim women
- Women immigrants--Algeria--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants
- Women immigrants--France--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2017
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 61-63)
- Field of study: Social justice and human rights
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Noura Ahmed