TY - BOOK ID - 81144927 TI - Politics, religion and gender : framing and regulating the veil AU - Rosenberger, Sieglinde AU - Sauer, Birgit. PY - 2012 SN - 1136589325 0203181050 0415561485 0415705134 1136589317 PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Clothing and dress KW - Muslim women KW - Religion and politics KW - Veils KW - Law and legislation KW - Clothing KW - Government policy KW - Political aspects KW - Headgear KW - Hijab (Islamic clothing) KW - Islamic women KW - Women, Muslim KW - Women KW - Apparel KW - Clothes KW - Clothing and dress, Primitive KW - Dress KW - Dressing (Clothing) KW - Garments KW - Beauty, Personal KW - Manners and customs KW - Fashion KW - Undressing KW - Political Science KW - International Relations KW - Muslimahs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:81144927 AB - Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, mi ER -