SOC 885 Lecture 4: Week 4 - Local/Global Politics of the Veil
3 Mar 2012
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Some of the things they"ve demonstrated is that one reason in quebec; few years ago they looked at it not as an issue of women freedom. Idea they muslim women should be free and there are character rights if they don"t want too. L"affair du foulard france 1989: zine p. 241. 3 school girls banned because they came to school wearing the hijab. France march 2004 parliament passed a ban on religious symbols such as hijab, yarmulke and crucifixes in state schools. England march 2006: ban on a student who wanted to wear a full length dress. Bill c 94: an act to establish guidelines governing accommodation requests within the administration and certain institutions. Going through various phases in the government, it has almost reached the final phase, it didn"t mention muslim women or the niqab. Many women groups organized in protest, the bill was an act to establish guidelines governing accommodations requests, it was about reasonable accommodation.
