Forced unveiling campaigns backfire by driving women to adopt the veil
Evidence
In Algeria, sociologist Marnia Lazreg points out that poor and working class Algerian Muslim women were coerced to be part of a well-choreographed event in 1958 where their veils were publicly removed by French women in a purported demonstration of their liberation. In response, many women who did not previously veil adopted the veil as a symbol of protest. From that point on, the veil was no longer an article of religious clothing but became a “strategic devise, under which and out of which women and men alike carried out paramilitary action.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 302 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Rising Islamophobia causes some Muslim women to adopt the veil as political resistance — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 846; Well-intentioned unveiling campaigns backfire by turning the veil into a political symbol.; Colonial unveiling campaigns backfired, turning the veil into a protest symbol (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Well-intentioned unveiling campaigns backfire by turning the veil into a political symbol.
#corroborates(0.90) - France’s 1958 forced unveiling drove Algerian women to adopt the veil as protest
#exemplifies(0.88) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 302 - Forced unveiling in colonial Algeria backfired by politicizing the veil
#corroborates(0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 302 - Algerian women who had abandoned the veil re-donned it in response to forced unveiling
#exemplifies(0.85) - Colonial unveiling campaigns backfired, turning the veil into a protest symbol
#corroborates(0.82) - Enforced unveiling converts the veil into a symbol of anticolonial resistance
#corroborates(0.80) - Rising Islamophobia causes some Muslim women to adopt the veil as political resistance
#qualifies(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 846 - Wearing the veil can be a deliberate political act
#expands(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1648 - Veil bans revived imperialist narratives about Muslim women needing saving
#expands(0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 712