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    In your face : law, justice, and niqab-wearing women in Canada / Natasha Bakht.

    • Title:In your face : law, justice, and niqab-wearing women in Canada / Natasha Bakht.
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    • Author/Creator:Bakht, Natasha, author.
    • Published/Created:Toronto : Delve Books, 2020.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Islamic clothing and dress--Law and legislation--Canada.
      Clothing and dress--Law and legislation--Canada.
      Muslim women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada.
      Freedom of religion--Canada.
      Muslim women--Canada--Social conditions.
    • Description:xiii, 251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
    • Summary:"This book explores the experiences of a group of women in Canada who are small in numbers yet who have garnered much legal and political attention in recent years. Muslim women who cover their faces with a veil arouse visceral reactions in people who, despite exposure to diverse ways of living through multicultural urban environments, seem to have fixed notions of how women ought to live the good life. Politicians have denounced the niqab for a variety of reasons, calling on Muslim women to simply take it off. Where such persuasion has failed, legislative attempts have been made, some successfully, to prohibit women from covering their faces in certain contexts including courtrooms, citizenship ceremonies, public spaces and while working in the public service. This book analyzes bans of the niqab in Canada while also drawing on interviews with niqab-wearing women to reveal their complex identities and motivations for dressing in this modest way."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781552215494 paperback
      1552215490 paperback
      9781552215500 pdf
    • Contents:Introduction: Meet your neighbours
      Listening to the voices of niqab-wearing women
      Veiled objections : facing public opposition to the niqab
      What's in a face? : demeanor evidence and niqab-wearing women in courtrooms
      Piercing the veil of ignorance : niqab-wearing women and the adjudication of sexual assault
      In your face : legislative prohibitions of the niqab
      Niqab-wearing women's resistance in the face of oppressive governmental tactics and popular beliefs
      Conclusion: Towards a new future.
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