User:Chaltuh/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Joan Wallach Scott


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

In an effort to combat Muslim radicalism, Muslim women wearing the veil are dragged along in the political realm of Muslim women wearing Hijab. Muslim women are constantly being questioned whether they are choosing or is the hijab chosen for them. Joan Wallach Scott wiki page only mentions the words ‘politics of the veil’ without much explanation. I think the lack of information on the ‘politics of the veil’ is important to highlight because that word is being thrown around in politics today regarding Muslim women but there is no explanation of what it is, it’s just briefly stated. Shirin Neshat touch on the issues of the politics of the hijab without really attaching that concept to her work. I found this gap as I went on typing in politics of the veil after our recent discussion of Neshat work in class and I couldn’t find anything. Joan came up, I was unable to find anything more than just the tittle of her book. The idea of the politics of the veil should be highlighted in both the Wikipedia pages of both artists because it has become a movement and discussions held by many western Muslim women who are trying to understand the intersectionality of gender and religious backgrounds and the political powers in addressing the bans of the Hijab. Politicians use this word to address Muslim women and there’s no understanding of it. A Wikipedia page explaining ‘politics of the veil’ would foster conversations regarding politics and the hijab.


 * Propose a paragraph of new or substantially edited content based on reliable sources. (If you are editing existing content, post the current version along with your edited version, and clearly mark which is which.
 * Current version on Joan Wallach Scotts page:

"In addition to her article cited above, Scott has published several books, which are widely reprinted and have been translated into several languages, including French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Korean. Her publications include The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth Century City (Harvard University Press, 1974); Women, Work and Family (coauthored with Louise Tilly) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978); Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia University Press, 1988); Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Harvard University Press, 1996); Parité: Sexual Difference and the Crisis of French Universalism (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and "The Politics of the Veil" (Princeton University Press, 2007). Scott has also edited numerous other books and published countless articles. She is also one of the founding editors of the journal History of the Present. (Wikipedia 3)."

My edited version:

She highlights the ideas of the political outcry against the government which had previously banned ‘religiously distinct clothing pieces’ from schools in effort targeting Muslim girls’ from attending the educational institutions if they don’t take of the veil. The French government according to the article by Princeton University states lacks giving migrant rights to assimilation. The French system wants to stay the dominating culture and separate others from their own backgrounds in order to follow the French way of life. Joan Wallach Scott aims to introduce us to the issues regarding the veil and politics in the French ruling system. This same concept has been used in many discussions regarding political movements and the need to help liberate the Muslim women from the veil because she is being objected to abuse by being forced to put it on. She discusses the issues regarding assimilation of the Muslims and the long prejudice, racist society of the French with women being the central to the discussion. She also goes on to highlight the different beauty concepts of women in the French society and the reasons Muslim women wear the veil. The politics of the veil is often a concept used to describe politicians and their opinions regarding the veil as it in the book and with the French. The word has become renowned and is used in different academic circles in regards to the veil.


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