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In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada

In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada

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General LawGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1552215490
ISBN13: 9781552215494
Publisher: Irwin Law
Published: Oct 29 2020
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Featured on The Hill Times' 100 Best Books in 2020 list
This book explores the experiences of a group of women in Canada who are small in numbers yet have garnered much legal, political, and social attention in recent years. Muslim women who cover their faces with a veil arouse visceral reactions in people who, despite exposure to diverse ways of living through multicultural urban environments, seem to have fixed notions of how women ought to live the good life. Politicians have denounced the niqab for a variety of reasons, calling on Muslim women to simply take it off. Where such persuasion has failed, legislative attempts have been made, some successfully, to prohibit women from covering their faces in certain contexts, including courtrooms, citizenship ceremonies, public spaces, and while working in the public service. This book analyzes niqab bans in Canada while also drawing on interviews with niqab-wearing women to reveal their complex identities and multiple motivations for dressing in this way.

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