%0 Journal Article %T Excluding Muslim Women: From Hijab to Niqab, from School to Public Space %+ Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (CRESPPA) %+ Politique, Religion, Institutions et Sociétés : Mutations Européennes - Groupe de Sociologie Politique Européenne (PRISME-GSPE) %A Tissot, Sylvie %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0899-2363 %J Public Culture %I Duke University Press %V 23 %N 1 %P 39-46 %8 2011 %D 2011 %R 10.1215/08992363-2010-014 %Z Humanities and Social SciencesJournal articles %X Six years after banning pupils from wearing a hijab in public high schools, in July 2010, French deputies passed a law that forbids women from wearing the “integral veil” (or niqab, an outfit hiding the entire face except the eyes) in public spaces. This article examines why such a repressive policy toward Muslim women was unanimously embraced by the conservative majority and some left-wing leaders with so little protest. It aims at underscoring the specific phenomena that, on the basis of a new “orientalism,” contribute in France to institutionalizing a category of people on the basis of race and gender. %G English %L hal-00984989 %U https://univ-paris8.hal.science/hal-00984989 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS8 %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-PARIS10 %~ PRISME %~ PRISME-GSPE %~ UPN %~ CRESPPA %~ UNIV-PARIS-LUMIERES