Amy Kaufman

Anne Fausto Sterling

Dawn Lyon

Diana Tietjens Meyers

Emily Grabham

Joan Wallach Scott

Judith Butler

Lisa Duggan

Maneesha Deckha

Michel Foucault

Nicola Barker

Rosemary Auchmuty

Sharon Cowan

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This paper argues that Article 8 of the ECHR, as applied to the protection of a person’s right to wear a headscarf, is an inappropriate locus for thrashing out arguments about the right to protection of religious freedom, and that Article 9 allows for a broader legal and political analysis of the multiple meanings and impacts of religion in our lives. However, the law should not prohibit women from wearing the headscarf. Legal regulation of the headscarf should be replaced with robust political debate about the many diverse and intersecting ways in which it is possible to experience womanhood, sexuality, culture, religion, race, nationality and economic security in the twenty-first century

Cowan, Sharon

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Out of the Shadows: Feminist Silence and Liberal Law' in Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements ed. Carl Stychin and Vanessa Munro,

Unveiling the Headscarf Debate’ Feminist Legal Studies 12, 333-Scott,

The Headscarf Controversy:A Response to Jill Marshall

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