Publications

Publication details [#52625]

Coene, Gily and Chia Longman. 2008. Gendering the diversification of diversity: The Belgian hijab (in) question. Ethnicities 8 (3) : 302–321.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural anthropology | feminism | gender | political discussion | religion

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper explores to what degree gender equality and feminist arguments were crucial to the Belgian headscarf debate. The ambiguous Belgian hijab question offers a unique European case, because of various fracture lines, and increasing diversification processes defining Belgian society.