Liberal feminism and postcolonial difference: Debating headscarves in France, the Netherlands, and Germany

This article was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. ; In this article, we analyze headscarf debates that unfolded in the first decade of the twenty-first century in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through a socio-historical overview looking at newspaper articles and policy and legal documents, we show how the headscarf has become a site for negotiating immigrant-related, postcolonial difference. We argue that certain feminist understanding of gender liberation and postcolonial difference in the headscarf debates reveal the continuity of contr... Mehr ...