Haunted by its Roman Catholic background and still horrorstruck by last year’s mosque shooting, Québec, the French-speaking province of Canada,…
Niqab, sunglasses, and the sincerity of belief
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Regulating symbols: The burkini and niqab bans in France
Last month, the image of three police officers standing over a woman on the beach in Nice, supervising the removal…
Short skirts and niqab bans: On sexuality and the secular body
Introduced in Québec in March 2010, Bill 94 proposed requiring women to unveil their faces if they wanted to work…
“Burqa Ban” takes effect in France
On April 11th, the hotly debated "burqa ban" went into effect in France.