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Gendering the diversification of diversity

This article presents an analysis of the recent headscarf debate in Belgium, and explores in particular to what extent issues of gender equality and feminist arguments were central to the discussion. It is argued that compared to France, concerns about secularity and state-neutrality, national identity and equality, all find resonance in the Belgian context, but are articulated in a more ambiguous and less `principled' way. This partly explains the paradoxical situation in which, despite a widespread resistance to a general law banning the wearing of religious symbols in public schools, in practice, headscarf prohibitions are on the rise throughout various regions of the country. Although issues of gender equality and cultural diversity often cut and flow across debates and policies in European nation states, the Belgian hijab question provides a unique case, because of various lines of fracture and processes of increasing diversification that characterize Belgian society.

Gendering the diversification of diversity

Urheber*in: Coene, Gily; Longman, Chia

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Extent
Seite(n): 302-321
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Ethnicities, 8(3)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Coene, Gily
Longman, Chia
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2008

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-230804
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Coene, Gily
  • Longman, Chia

Time of origin

  • 2008

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