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  1. Between Islamophobia and Post-Feminist Agency: Intersectional Trouble in the European Face-Veil Bans.Dolores Morondo Taramundi - 2015 - Feminist Review 110 (1):55-67.
    Women's equality claims have occupied the forefront of the European debate on face-veil bans; most claims have been denounced as mere manipulation for anti-Islamic and/or anti-immigrant political agendas, and the dilemma between anti-sexist and anti-racist struggles has been argued to be false. This article examines how opportunistic manipulation of gender equality claims and the ‘ethnicisation’ of sexism have been assessed and confronted in the scholarly debate opposing the bans, as well as the impact that this debate has had on women's (...)
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  • ‘Burqa Avenger’: Law and Religious Practices in Secular Space.Giorgia Baldi - 2018 - Law and Critique 29 (1):31-56.
    The current debate over the hijab is often understood through the lens of a ‘clash of civilizations’ between a tolerant ‘secular’ ‘West’ and a chauvinist ‘religious’ ‘East’. The article argues that this polarization is the result of a specific secular semiotic understanding of religion and religious practices which is nowadays embedded in western law. In my analysis, secular’s normative assumptions, played around the control of women’s bodies and the definition of religious symbols in the public sphere, work as a marker (...)
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