{"title":"Laïcité as a Weapon: the Tool and the Target","authors":"Mary Elizabeth Allen","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2023.2185428","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article considers Laïcité (secularism) in France both through particular stories and the more theoretical stances that have emerged in the past few years. I focus on French schools, especially recent actions taken by the Ministry of Education to promote and instruct students and the public on the values of secularism—activities that notably contribute an increasing feeling of unwelcome among many Muslims in France. I analyze the culture war around hijab that jeopardizes women’s participation in society though attention to women’s voices in the new film Marianne directed by Valentina Canavesio.","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2023.2185428","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article considers Laïcité (secularism) in France both through particular stories and the more theoretical stances that have emerged in the past few years. I focus on French schools, especially recent actions taken by the Ministry of Education to promote and instruct students and the public on the values of secularism—activities that notably contribute an increasing feeling of unwelcome among many Muslims in France. I analyze the culture war around hijab that jeopardizes women’s participation in society though attention to women’s voices in the new film Marianne directed by Valentina Canavesio.
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An established journal of reference inviting all critical approaches on the latest debates and issues in the field, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (formerly known as SITES) provides a forum not only for academics, but for novelists, poets, artists, journalists, and filmmakers as well. In addition to its focus on French and Francophone studies, one of the journal"s primary objectives is to reflect the interdisciplinary direction taken by the field and by the humanities and the arts in general. CF&FS is published five times per year, with four issues devoted to particular themes, and a fifth issue, “The Open Issue” welcoming non-thematic contributions.