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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Headscarf"”.
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Unveiling the Headscarf Debate; A Study of Multiculturalism
… defend my hypothesis, I will use the case of the headscarf – a controversial piece of cloth that has shaken up governments and societies throughout Europe. Although it represents non-western culture in its mildest form, it has come to be perceived as threatening to the western principles of …
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Effect of the Muslim Headscarf on Face Perception. A series of psychological experiments looking at how the Muslim headscarf influences the perception of (South Asian) faces.
The Muslim headscarf conceals the hair and other external features of a face. For this reason it may have implications for the recognition of such faces. The experiments reported in this thesis aimed to investigate anecdotal reports, which suggested that headscarf wearing females are more difficult …
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Freedom of Religion and the headscarf: a perspective from international and comparative constitutional Law
… analyses whether a legislative ban on wearing a headscarf breaches the right to freedom of religion, as such right is universally understood. It describes the ambit of the right to freedom of religion by examining the theoretical justification and importance of the right and thereafter analysing …
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The Effects of Wearing Headscarves on Cervical Spine Proprioception and Range of Motion
<p><strong>Background</strong>: Wearing the headscarf is a part of an essential religious practice by females in Islamic cultures. Regular wear of the headscarf might have an influence on cervical proprioception and range of motion (ROM). The cervical spine is unique in providing multidirectional …
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Reconfiguring French Secularism: The Mosque as the New Multicultural Space of Young Muslims
… examine this process through the uses of the headscarf or within the framework of terrorism. This study suggests a fresh perspective by using an experimental spatial analysis with a focus on the major mosques and the practices of mosque congregants. It poses the question how French Muslims …
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Westernized 'easthetics': understanding surface, depth and individuality in contemporary modest wear: an ethnography on hijab wearers and designers in Britain
… wear, with a particular stress on the Islamic headscarf. In concrete terms, the focus falls on agency-driven, (micro)cultural and psycho-sartorial dynamics of hijab observance, and the ways these are enmeshed, in real life cases, within a socio-biographical tableau of a far more complex facture …
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Affective-Relational Becomings: Contestations over Muslim Women's Identities
… the category ―Islamist,‖ used for contemporary headscarf-wearing women in Turkey, and examine how this categorization erases contingency, specificity, and relationality of women‘s experiences. For this purpose, I articulate the conception of body as a relational and affective multiplicity based …
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Islamophobia and the Politics of the Human in Contemporary German Mediascapes
… specifically the compound nouns Kopftuchmädchen (headscarfgirl) and Messermann (knifeman), reading these as condensates of a disproportionally humanist imaginary that conjures the Muslim ‘Other’ as ontologically foreignand not-quite-human, in contrast to a normative, Vitruvian, biocentric fantasy …
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The veil as exception and difference in French discourse and policy
<p>My thesis is about how the veil in France has come to symbolize the emergence of a state of exception in a mondern, industrialized, multicultural society. I posit that far from being a new conversation, that France's contemporary discussion on veiling represents a legacy of a much older, …
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Identitas sosial pengguna jilbab dalam kelompok mahasiswi inkafa, kelompok rohis Universitas Brawijaya dan komunitas hijaber Malang
… of a kindness , propriety and obedience. A headscarf or hijab is a religious symbol of islam and also used as the identity category of individual person to join a group that having the same categories of identity and be distinguishing of one group with other groups. The problem of identity …