Sunday, November 22, 2015

Politics of the Veil - answer a question

Despite reservations about the headscarf, the political scientist Mossuz-Lavau argues against the law to ban headscarves. What is at the crux of her argument?


The feminist political scientist Mossuz-Lavau argues against the law to ban headscarves because she thinks that the government should not force Muslim women to wear the headscarf. Muslim women have their rights to design whether they could put the headscarf on or not. According to the article Politics of Veil, Janine Mossuz-Lavau wrote an appeal against the law. “When I pass a woman with a veil in the street. I feel a pang of emotion.” She thinks that the veil designated the woman as “a source of sin,” and “as a potential whore.” She thought that it deprived as she was of the sexual liberation that was hers by rights. Mossuz-Lavau then cited a study she had done in 2000-2001 of sexual practices in French society. She did interviews on women and found that if the test of liberation were sexual freedom, she concluded that the girls with headscarves must be allowed to stay in school.

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