Voices and Veils
Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism
Anna Kemp
Click cover to enlarge | Research Monographs in French Studies 29 Legenda 6 September 2010 • 156pp ISBN: 978-1-906540-26-5 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-351194-19-8 (Taylor & Francis ebook) ContemporaryFrenchFictionPhilosophyTheology In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of France’s relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves. Drawing on sociological, polemical and literary writings, this thoughtful and wide-ranging study examines the unacknowledged colonial roots of French feminist discourses on Islam and femininity, before bringing to light examples of French Muslim women’s writing and activism that suggest alternative ways of being both French and a feminist. Anna Kemp is a Junior Research Fellow in French at The Queen’s College Oxford. Shortlisted for the 2012 Gapper Prize, awarded annually by the Society for French Studies for the best book of its year by a scholar working in French studies in Britain or Ireland. Reviews:
Bibliography entry: Kemp, Anna, Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism, Research Monographs in French Studies, 29 (Legenda, 2010) First footnote reference: 35 Anna Kemp, Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism, Research Monographs in French Studies, 29 (Legenda, 2010), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Kemp, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Kemp, Anna. 2010. Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism, Research Monographs in French Studies, 29 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Kemp 2010: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Kemp 2010: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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