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Reading The Politics of Veil
Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Vii + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.94 U.S. (cl), ISBN 978-0-691-1243-5. On March 15, 2004, the French government passed a law banning the wearing of « conspicuous signs » of religious affiliation within public schools. The decision […]