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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5(8), pp. 677 - 687
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050812
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'Visible Others': A Reading of the European Obsession with the Female Veil
Giorgia Baldi *
School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
ABSTRACT
This article aims to analyse the current European obsession with the practice of veiling. What emerges from this analysis is that the regulation of clothes and images in the public sphere is an integral part of European history and emerges as a necessary act of sovereign power aimed at instituting a precise law and religious subject through regulation of the licit form of visibility in the public sphere. This act, reinforced by the promulgation of exceptional rules of law, is necessary to maintain the unity and homogeneity of European people, in the past as well as nowadays.
KEYWORDS
Headscarf Debate, Gender, Symbology of Clothes, Sovereignty, Power of Images, Secular/Religious Powers
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[1] Giorgia Baldi , "'Visible Others': A Reading of the European Obsession with the Female Veil," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 677 - 687, 2017. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050812.
(b). APA Format:
Giorgia Baldi (2017). 'Visible Others': A Reading of the European Obsession with the Female Veil. Sociology and Anthropology, 5(8), 677 - 687. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050812.