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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