1st Edition

Politics, Religion and Gender Framing and Regulating the Veil

Edited By Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birgit Sauer Copyright 2012
264 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this... Read more

Framing and Regulating the Veil: An Introduction Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer  Part One: Frames and Framing  1. Veiled debates: Gender and gender equality in European national narratives  Rikke Andreassen and Doutje Lettinga  2. Thinking through secularism: Debates on the Muslim veil in Europe Eirini Avramopoulou, Gül Çorbacioğlu, and Maria Eleonora Sanna  3. Negotiating belonging – or how a differentiated citizenship is legitimized in European headscarf debates Nora Gresch, Petra Rostock, and Sevgi Kiliç  4. Discursive Europeanization? Negotiating Europe in headscarf debates Ilker Ataç, Sieglinde Rosenberger, and Birgit Sauer  Part Two: Regulations and Actors  5. Legal regulations: Responses to the Muslim headscarf in Europe Sabine Berghahn  6 Regulating religious symbols in public schools: The legal status of the Islamic headscarf in Bulgaria Kristen Ghodsee  7. The limits of populism: Accommodative headscarf policies in Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands Leila Hadj-Abdou, Sieglinde Rosenberger, Sawitri Saharso, and Birte Siim  8. In the name of laïcité and neutrality: Prohibitive regulations of the veil in France, Germany, and Turkey Sabine Berghahn, Gül Çorbacioğlu, Petra Rostock, and Maria Eleonora Sanna  9. Non-regulation: Opportunity for freedom of religion or sedimentation of existing power structures?  Rikke Andreassen, Eirini Avramopoulou, Nora Gresch, Sevgi Kiliç, and Birgit Sauer  10. Muslim women’s participation in the veil controversy: Austria and the UK compared Leila Hadj-Abdou and Linda Woodhead  Conclusion: The veil as a case of value diversity and European values Sawitri Saharso

Biography

Sieglinde Rosenberger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests focuse on the governance of religious pluralism, migration and integration, identities and gender relations.

Birgit Sauer is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research fields include democracy and difference, critical governance studies, gender in political institution, state theory, gender and globalization, comparative gender policies.