Citation:
Najmabadi, Afsaneh. 2006. “Gender and Secularism of Modernity: How Can a Muslim Woman Be French?” Feminist Studies, Inc. Feminist Studies, Inc. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y5vdlerq
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Date Published:
Aug 1, 2006Abstract:
The current debates in and about the veil in Europe carry with them not only the terms of the emergence of political Islam in the past several decades, but also this historical memory and that of the earlier cultural encounters and colonial wars between Europe and the domains now named the Middle East and North Africa. While I do not mean to collapse these projects into a singular entity, the historical legacy of fixing the meaning of a Muslim woman's veil as the sign of her gender oppression has remained with us to this very day.