Agnes De Feo is a sociologist and documentary filmmaker. Since 2008, she has been studying women in the Salafist movement in France and has made eight films on the subject of the niqab. Her previous work, on the Cham community in Vietnam and Cambodia from 2002 to 2012, has resulted in five documentaries as well as a book, Parlons Cham du Vietnam (2016). Lindsay Turner is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and has translated books by Stephane Bouquet, Eric Baratay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others.
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Preface to the English-Language Edition vii A Note on Terminology xi PART I Introduction 3 The Sociology of Niqab Wearers 17 The Niqab and the Other 35 A Reaction to the Ban 49 Conclusion 65 PART II 16 Portraits of Women Wearing the Niqab 71 Earlier Wearers (Before 2009), 71 Neo-Niqab Wearers (After 2009), 101 The Niqab: Refuting Common Ideas 155 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 165 Selected Bibliography and Filmography 171
This volume is a powerful study of why women wear the niqab, or facial veil, in France.-- "Choice Reviews" Agnes De Feo's thoughtful book explores a number of paradoxes. The French law of 2010 which sought to prohibit the niqab (facial veil) actually increased its use, as wearing it became a sign of resistance. Proponents of the law invoked women's rights and gender equality to impose a limitation on how women could dress. Niqab wearers insist that it is traditional, but its adaptation in much of the Muslim world and in Europe is a recent fruit of globalized Islam. By giving voices to French women who have chosen to wear the niqab, De Feo questions much of the conventional wisdom concerning Islam and its place in European society.---John Tolan, University of Nantes Current and relevant, and informed by a sensitivity and awareness of the diversity of Islamic practices.---Nima Naghibi, author of Women Write Iran