This chapter identifies a shift in the ratio of European judicial decisions banning or limiting the right of Muslim women to wear traditional attire. It holds that first generation "veil bans" relied on a victimization narrative, and purported to liberate Muslim women from their assumed oppressive patriarchal culture. To the opposite, more recent decisions by the two European courts (the ECtHR and the ECJ) have abandoned this pattern and began to construct Muslim women as willing emblems of an irreconcilable Islamic “Other”.

Mancini S. (2019). European Law and the Veil: Muslim Women from Victims to Emblems of the Enemy. London and New York : Routledge.

European Law and the Veil: Muslim Women from Victims to Emblems of the Enemy

Mancini S.
2019

Abstract

This chapter identifies a shift in the ratio of European judicial decisions banning or limiting the right of Muslim women to wear traditional attire. It holds that first generation "veil bans" relied on a victimization narrative, and purported to liberate Muslim women from their assumed oppressive patriarchal culture. To the opposite, more recent decisions by the two European courts (the ECtHR and the ECJ) have abandoned this pattern and began to construct Muslim women as willing emblems of an irreconcilable Islamic “Other”.
2019
Religious Literacy, Law and History. Perspectives on European Pluralist Societies
127
136
Mancini S. (2019). European Law and the Veil: Muslim Women from Victims to Emblems of the Enemy. London and New York : Routledge.
Mancini S.
File in questo prodotto:
Eventuali allegati, non sono esposti

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11585/692159
 Attenzione

Attenzione! I dati visualizzati non sono stati sottoposti a validazione da parte dell'ateneo

Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact