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The Politics of the Veil

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    In The Politics of the Veil (2007), for example, she examined the ban imposed in 2004 on the wearing of the Islamic veil (and, officially, all conspicuous signs of religious affiliation) in French schools. She addressed that controversial topic by examining the fraught relationship between the…

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