%0 Journal Article
%T Voiles racialis¨¦s: la femme musulmane dans les imaginaires occidentaux
%A Alia Al-Saji
%J Les Ateliers de l¡¯¨¦thique
%D 2008
%I Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al
%X Cet article ¨¦tudie deux contextes fran ais dans lesquels les voiles musulmans sont devenus hypervisibles: le d¨¦bat public qui a men¨¦ ¨¤ la loi fran aise de 2004 interdisant les signes religieux ostensibles dans les ¨¦coles publiques, et le projet colonial fran ais de d¨¦voiler les femmes alg¨¦riennes. Je montre comment le concept de   l¡¯oppression de genre   s¡¯est naturalis¨¦ au voile musulman d¡¯une telle mani¨¨re qu¡¯il justifie les normes de f¨¦minit¨¦s occidentales et cache le m¨¦canisme par lequel les femmes musulmanes sont racialis¨¦es. C¡¯est ainsi que le voile devient le point de mire d¡¯un racisme culturel qui se pr¨¦sente comme lib¨¦rant les femmes musulmanes, un racisme qui semble poser un dilemme au f¨¦minisme.This paper examines two French contexts in which Muslim veils have become hypervisible as centres of contention: the public debate that led to the recent French law banning conspicuous religious signs in public schools and the French colonial project to unveil Algerian women. I ask how the concept of gender oppression comes to be naturalized to the Muslim veil in such a way as to simultaneously justify Western norms of femininity and hide the process by which Muslim women are racialized. It is in this way, I argue, that the ¡°veil¡± becomes the focal point for a form of cultural racism that presents itself as saving Muslim women, and that it can be construed to pose a dilemma to feminism.
%K ¨¦thique appliqu¨¦e
%K f¨¦minisme
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