SOC 885 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Islamic Feminism, Hijab, Foulard
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Experiences of veiling among muslim girls in a. Context of islamic schools in ontario: according to ontario ministry of education reported in 1999, 2,240 children attended islamic schools but muslim community estimated that as many as. After children reach their puberty religious codes for modesty in dress, manner and social distance b/w members of the opposite sex become instituted. This is an act that defies a 1937. French law prohibiting the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols in government run schools. Islamic other as a threat to liberal civic value but it also polarized french nationalism with anglophone federalism: author argues that emilie"s islamization was viewed as racial transgression b/c she is a white convert. Muslims women"s bodies are gender coded and form a cultural text for the expression of social, political and religious meanings. Corporal inscriptions: muslim meanings of veiling: corporeal inscriptions communicate social and political messages through specific forms and styles of dress.
