Hijab & the republic: uncovering the French headscarf debate

Introduction: why France?

Contextualizing the debate. A very modern tradition: background to the "new veiling"

The "cornerstone of the republic": secularism and the regulation of religion

French Muslims: between "integration" and "Muslimism"

A fifteen-year saga. 1989: three little girls and a great big "psychodrama"

1990-1995: from psychodrama to saga

1995-2004 and beyond: how ostentatiousness became conspicuous

Feminists caught in the contradictions. The politics of hijabization

Co-optations and instrumentalizations

Feminist confusions and confrontations

Conclusion: French lessons for the West?

Appendix: Chronology.