Les recompositions politiques du mouvement féministe français au regard du hijab

• Main Author: Nicolas Dot-Pouillard
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2007-10-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: feminism; Islam; social movement; the left; religion
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/246

The exclusion from a French public college of two veiled girls, in September 2004, and the adoption of the law relating to the prohibition of the religious signs in the primary education and secondary of February 2005, raised the question of the appearance of Islam in public space. But the question of the veil overflowed its object first, and with final posed a certain number of questions relating to the nature of the bonds between public space, the State and the religion, with the heritage and impensé colonial, its consequences about perceptions and the imaginary collectives. These problems literally tore the French feminist movement, and, beyond, a broad part of the French left. Thus the French feminist movement was seen literally crossed in three positions: a new republican feminism, founded on the assimilationist paradigm and the idea of a public space smoothes and homogeneous, condition of a true equality; a historical feminist current, criticizing all at the same time the veil like instrument reactionary and the law on the religious signs like repressive and against productive ; a feminism mongrel finally, denouncing the colonial vision of Islam in France, and ready to create a transversality between Western feminism and emergent Moslem feminism.