Getting to Know the Other: Niqab-Wearing Women in Liberal Democracies
Governments around the world have gone to great lengths to discourage and prohibit wearing of the niqab, often relying on the justification that this form of Muslim women’s dress represents and produces the oppression of women. Setting aside that these prohibitions are themselves detrimental to wome...
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Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 4 |
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